Facts about the Mountain Centre: • The Laponia Restaurant is classified as a “five-pan Lappish restaurant”. • The restaurant is fully licensed. • Each apartment has its own kitchen for self-catering. • We have a “green” petrol station that supplies diesel, petrol and spare   parts for snow-mobiles. • You can hire equipment here for a variety of activities, including clothing,   snow-mobiles, skis, etc. • We sell hunting- and fishing permits, worms, maggots and other   fishing equipment. Facts about the area: Stora Sjöfallet National Park covers an area of 1,278 square kilometres. The name comes from the wide, five-tier waterfall that flowed here on the River Stora Lule. Laponia is listed as a world heritage area by UNESCO. The list is intended to protect the most valuable natural areas and heritage areas on our planet. These areas must be looked after and treated with special respect. The area is rich in lichen and has a unique type of red-violet sandstone known as Sjöfall quartzite. The lime-poor bedrock has resulted in large scrub moors populated by dwarf birch, crowberry and blueberry scrub. Cloudberries, or “Lapland’s Gold”, can be picked from mid-July until the end of August. Over half the 400 known alpine species of flora can be found here, including rarities such as Potentilla hyperarctica and Arenaria humifusa. Stora Sjöfallet has the largest virgin pine forest in Europe. There are almost 125 species of birds here, predominantly golden plover, meadowlark and wheatear, but also whimbrel, long-tailed jaeger, eagle and rough-legged hawk. If you are lucky you may also spot a lesser white-fronted goose, gerfalcon or great grey owl. Reindeer are everywhere you turn, but you may also see elk, red fox, ermine, and hare. Less common are lynx, wolverine, bear and arctic fox. If you see lemmings then they are most likely to be the grey-sided vole. In mid-May the reindeer pass the waterways on their migration up into the high mountains. They remain there until mid-September, when they return to forested land. Kungsleden runs right through Stora Sjöfallets National Park and is Sweden’s most popular skiing and trekking route. It runs from Abisko in the north to Hemavan in southern Lapland, a distance of 500 kilometres.			Worth seeing The five falls in Stora Sjöfallet. Akka terraces: An ice-age delta, west of Akka. Teusadalen: Lapland’s most majestic mountain valley. Sourvagubben: Naturally created stone sculpture. Good to know Áhkká, “The Queen of Lapland”, has the largest level difference in Sweden, at 1500 metres from base to peak. Jåkk = mountain stream, jaure = lake, tjåkkå = mountain peak. The abundance of grayling in the area is widely known and attracts fly-fishers from all over the world. You can get around in the national park on foot, on skis, by snow-mobile, car or helicopter.