Geocaching
Geocaching is an outdoor activity, where you hide boxes called geocaches to nature or a built environment. Inside the box you put a logbook and a pen and possibly some small items for exchange. You inform the location of the geocache on the Internet as coordinates and other geocachers search for the caches with the help of a gps device.
In Finland there are approximately 5000 geocachers, in the world around 4-5 million.
The most geocachers there are in the United States. It is very common among the geocachers to combine travelling and geocaching, as one selects the travel destination on the basis of where one would find geocaches. Usually the caches are located also near nature- or cultural sights, so at the same time they present the local sights.
In Finland there are now ca 12 000 caches. You can also find caches in the Porvoo area, which can be seen from this link: www.geocache.fi/caches/jakauma.php?kuntalista=Porvoo
A Finnish geocaching site: www.geocache.fi
A worldwide geocaching site: www.geocaching.com