DESTINATION INFO

Finnair's destination info pages are designed for the media and the texts can be used freely. New long-haul destinations are added as new routes are launched. Finnair's Photo Gallery has pictures from all these destinations as well as from many new European destinations. (Use of the Photo Gallery does not require a password requested on the site.)

South Korea is a beautiful, clean, efficient, safe country of great variety, where modern technology and age-old traditions, culture and philosophies meet. Seoul is one of world's great metropolises. Over 20 million people live in the city's area of influence. The capital has something for everyone to enjoy.

In a land of ancient culture, Mumbai is a youngster barely two centuries old. Squeezed on to a peninsula, this lively, cheerful city is like Manhattan, the New York of India, where Bollywood glitter and glamour live side by side with slums.

Yesterday and today merge into each other in Delhi. Weather forecasts are made by satellite and from astrological charts. Jean-clad teenagers munch hamburgers while nearby food is earnestly simmered in a tandoori oven to a thousand-year-old recipe.

Did you know that most of the world's leather products and more than 90 per cent of clocks and watches are made in China's Guangzhou region. Make no mistake, you'll get bargains like nowhere else! But you'll have to know where to look: each merchandise has it's own area or street.

In Japan's Nagoya, a traveller can relax and enjoy the speciality of the Nagoya airport, Japanese hot baths in the vicinity of the runaways.

In Shanghai, skyscrapers are appearing like mushrooms in the rain. The city is China's most intense area of economic development, but also a buzzing tourist city and a true shopper's paradise.