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Extract from the Jokkmokk Travel Guides:
In the midst of remote, densely forested, marshy country,
JOKKMOKK
is a welcome oasis. Once wintertime Sami quarters, the town is today a renowned handicraft centre, with a Sami high school keeping the language and culture alive. The
jtte Museum
(mid-June to Aug daily 9am-6pm; rest of year Mon-Fri 10am-4pm, Sat & Sun noon-4pm; Oct-April closed Sat; 40kr) on Kyrkegatan is the place to see some of the intricate work. Have a glance, too, at the so-called
Lapp Kyrka
, in which corpses were interned in wall vaults during winter, waiting for the thaw when the Sami could go out and dig graves - the te...
read the whole Jokkmokk Travel Guides...
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