We went down the hill and crossed the bridge at Sataunnankatu. Just walked through a park on our left, we arrived at Vapriikki Museum Centre. You may found that we don’t take bus but we walked. Yes, we walked according to the walking tours map. There are several museums located inside this Vapriikki Museum Centre such as Shoe Museum and Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame.

Vapriikki Museum located at the former Tampella engineering workshop. It exhibit archaeology theme, metal theme, nature, handicraft, technology and modern art. The original Finnish Ice Hockey Championship Trophy and the World Championship Trophy 1995 is exhibit inside the Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame. We spent quite a long time there, but, we missed the Shoe Museum because we were tired. We were allowed to take photos inside the museums without flash light. However, we can’t get any battery replaced inside this museum centre therefore we can’t take anymore photos. We felt sad about this.

After this, we walked back to our hostel. During the way back, we stopped at the city centre and have our dinner at one of Chinese restaurants there. While we were on the way back to hostel, we will passed by the Tampere City main library Metso. Next to the hostel we stayed at is a swimming hall. It has a sauna inside the swimming hall. We don’t know about this at all while we did our reservation. Therefore, it was a good opportunity to try Finnish Sauna (Finland is the origin country for Sauna). I can tell you, Finnish Sauna is totally different with what you can get in Malaysia! I will tell you later perhaps tomorrow.

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• Finnish Sauna in Tampere
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• Our walking tour in Tampere (4) Alexander church - Market Hall
• Tram 3T route tour
• From hostel to Market Square of Helsinki

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