Valtimo is a town in North Karelia, Finland, nowadays part of Nurmes.
Understand
Get in
By bus from Joensuu or Kajaani.
Get around
By taxi
- Smartphone app: 02 Taksi
See
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Valtimo_railway_station.jpg/220px-Valtimo_railway_station.jpg)
A feeling of emptiness at Valtimo railway station.
- Valtimo Church.
- Valtimo is also a great place to experience wilderness, and an existence of emptiness.
Do
- Listen to silence.
Buy
There is a supermarket in the centre.
Eat
There are two restaurants in the centre.
- Seiska.
- Irmuska.
Drink
Beer. Nearest liquor store is in Nurmes.
Sleep
- Puukarin Pysäkki, Kajaanintie, ☏ 358 50-344-3824, ✉[email protected]. Inn a little out of town. Good Karelian food. Also programme services. single €66, double €104; lunch €17–26, dinner €28–48.
Connect
Go next
- 1 Hiidenportti National Park and Peurajärvi Recreational Area – national park offering old-growth forest, the above mentioned silence and the Hiidenportti gorge; the adjacent recreational area offers easy hikes and lakes with child-friendly beaches. 20 km to the north-east along Ylä-Valtimontie, road 5284.