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“Actually, that’s Top…for Top Safaris,” replies Danila another Top Safaris instructor, is tasked with leading
Polyakov, an instructor who hails from over the border my friends and I on a ride into the wintry wilds. Sitting
in Murmansk, Russia. He grins. I blush and make a astride the gleaming black machine, anonymously
hasty exit---at least, as hasty as I can with a pair of attired in my thermal suit, black balaclava and helmet,
mutant tennis-rackets strapped to my feet. I look like a smash-and-grab robber about to pull a
The fastest way to make tracks across this blizzard- heist. But in the quiet town of Saariselkä, home to
blanketed landscape is via snowmobile. Janne Niskala, one grocery store, a handful of restaurants, pubs and

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