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The path to today's Geocache of the Week
/ Janelle

Kiilopään huippu – Aslakin Taigametsä 4 — Geocache of the Week

Traditional
GC1YV19
by Aslak, Adoted by exu, nix00
Difficulty:
2
Terrain:
3
Location:
Finland
N 68° 20.501 E 027° 30.207
Path to the Geocache of the Week
Path to the Geocache of the Week

Finland. Land of the midnight sun and Land of a thousand lakes. Finland should really be known as the “land of tens of thousands of lakes and islands” because there are actually 187,888 lakes and 179,888 islands in the country (side note: who counts these things?).

Land of a thousand lakes... and then some
Land of a thousand lakes… and then some

Finland recently celebrated its 100th anniversary of independence. Many places around the world celebrated by lighting their own famous landmarks in Finland’s national colors of blue and white. Here some additional fun Finnish facts:

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/ Andrew Baldwin /

Geoheimnisse der Region Hannover GeoTour (GT31)

Location:
Hanover, Germany
Favorite Points:
9,706

Hanover is the capital city of Lower Saxony. The city is known for its quaint aesthetic, world class events, and the Eilenriede — a forest in the middle of the city that is twice the size of Central Park in New York City. The Geoheimnisse der Region Hannover GeoTour (GT31) hosts 75 unique gadget caches with a total of almost 10,000 Favorite points — that’s an average of 135 Favorite points per cache! If you’ve seen the caches for yourself it’s no mystery why this GeoTour has the second-most Favorite Points in the world. 

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/ Andrew Baldwin /

Carhenge – Sacred Tourist Trap — Geocache of the Week

Traditional
GCGN58
by catalyst
Difficulty:
3
Terrain:
1.5
Location:
Nebraska, United States of America
N 42° 08.605′ W 102° 51.449′

Carhenge – Sacred Tourist Trap is Nebraska’s first GOTW — we will try to not make it too corny. Carhenge consists of 38 automobiles 96 feet (29 m) in diameter and is one of the most favorited caches in the state with over 1,000 logs.

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