20/03/2025
Here are some fun facts about Levi, that we bet you didn't know before! 😉🫵🏼
❄️ Levi is actually just a name of the fell, that is located in the village of Sirkka! Sirkka, on the other hand, is a small village in the municipality of Kittilä. Sirkka literally means a cricket in Finnish. 🦗
❄️ The Levi fell is 530,3 metres (1,742 feet) above the sea level! In the ski resort of Levi, there are 43 ski slopes (17 of which are floodlit) and 27 ski lifts. ⛷️
❄️ There are only 890 residents living in the village of Sirkka all year around! That is quite a tiny amount of people compared to over 600 000 international travellers that Levi has each year, most of them during the winter season.📍
❄️ Almost every Finnish home has a sauna!
Finns have mainly three different types of saunas. One of them is a sauna heated with an electric sauna stove, that you see in most houses these days. Second is a traditional wooden heated sauna, which gives you the most gentle and moist "löyly". The Finnish word "löyly" is the name for the evaporating hot steam that rises from "kiuas" stoves after water has been carefully thrown on top of them. And third a bit more rare, but definitely very popular among Finns, is the dark smoke sauna. There also might be two different saunas in one household, one inside the house and one outside in the yard, next to a lake or a river to enjoy some fresh dips in the middle of bathing. And yes, Finnish people traditionally have sauna in their birthday suits, so don't be afraid if you see a half-naked Finn somewhere outside just cooling off the heat! 💦
Photos by our guides 📸
Andy, Laura, Mariana, Vicky, Clara, Toni & Joanna