The state of the athletes' village has also come in for criticism, with complaints of flooding, rooms soiled by excrement and stray dogssleeping on some beds.
From the village of Ivalo (and with the help of a guide), visitors drive their own team of dogs through pristine, snow-covered fells, covering between 30km and 50km a day, sleepingin remote wilderness huts each night and experiencing the isolation and beauty of Lapland in a section of forest just 50km from the Russian border.