"Two day trip to Mikkeli" Mikkeli by ZenLady34

Mikkeli Travel Guide: 25 reviews and 105 photos

Mikkeli center - the Market Square - Mikkeli

Our friends have a cottage by the lake Saimaa, only nine kilometres from Mikkeli city center. They invited us over for a couple of days and so we decided to go. As Mikkeli is located only three hours of drive from our hometown Porvoo we decided to go there by car.

Mikkeli is not a big city. I wouldn't call it a city at all. It is rather a town than a city, like my hometown Porvoo. Mikkeli has only 46.000 inhabitants on an area of 1 622 km², where from 18,7 % is water.

The city center is quite small and we could not find a local restaurant in the area. The life seemed to be focused at the market place, where one can find few cafeterias and buy some local handicraft's and watch people walking by.

In my opinion best of Mikkeli is its location. It is in the middle of very beautiful lake area and surrounded by nature. There are absolutely many possibilities for an active holiday, like paddling the Oravanreitti (Squirrel route). It actually goes from Juva to Sulkava and is 52 km's of length.

In Mikkeli area one can also enjoy different Trails, more information on the official Mikkeli Tourist Office pages, take a look!

Mikkeli Tourist Office pages offers very good information on activities, accomondation, sights etc.

Pros and Cons

Pros:in heart of Lake Saimaa district
Cons:hmmm?
In a nutshell:for nature and quiet life lovers an excellent place

Last visit to Mikkeli: Jul 2006
Intro Updated Oct 8, 2006
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Gili_S Aug 26, 2006 at 10:16 AM

oh, I did visit Mikkeli... eh... 18 years ago ;-)
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luckyzen Aug 4, 2006 at 12:14 PM

Looks like you had a great time, Maj. Cannot wait for futher updates. Have a great w/end!