The thick-coated horned ones

To-day we visited more reindeer. Some were tied up getting ready for the reindeer race during the winter market. Those are the robust, lively ones. This one was an old friendly one, so we got to pet him (although they don't like it when you touch their antlers). He is a 12 year old male and his name is Rudolph (really).

The rest of the herd was more shy, though some calves came up to us thinking we had food. We sat by the fire in the lávvu and had hot blueberry juice with dried reindeer meat. We used beautifully carved wooden cups--really ingenious for hot beverages!

The lake and through the forest