Turku-Tampere challenge
This time we will travel to Turku to visit our ESN friends and prove them that their city sucks!
ESN takes you to a two-day fun-packed competition event in Turku where you will see the city, meet fellow Turku people and have a great dinner feast and party. This event takes place on 13.-14.3, from Saturday to Sunday.
You probably know the city of Turku but did you also know that having founded in the late 13th century, Turku is the oldest city in Finland! It also used to be the capital city until 1812 when Helsinki took over. The most famous sightseeings in Turku are probably the 700-year-old Turku Castle and the most important religious building in Finland, Turku Cathedral. They also have a successful ice hockey club called TPS.
Sounds like a great place, doesn't it? However, Tampere and Turku have always been competing about everything. In Tampere we can't really comprehend the dialect spoken in Turku, nor can we stand their numerous ice hockey championships. These conflicts started when they tried to stop Tampere to produce our local delicacy, mustamakkara.
Our response to this attempt was to physically try and separate Turku from the continental Finland. After all, the best thing in Turku is …anyone? - The highway to Tampere!
Because all of this, Turku is not actually considered to be part of Finland and it is often being described as being "Suomen perse", the ass of Finland. Alright, jokes aside... 
To carry on with the competitive tradition between Turku and Tampere we are organising ESN Turku-Tampere Challenge (just call it ETTC). It is organised in co-operation with ESN FINT (from UTA) and our counterparts in Turku: ESN ÅÄ, ESN Uni Turku and ESN IAC.
ETTC (part 1) takes you to Turku where we challenge their international students in playful competitions during our fun two-day event. You will also take part in a guided city tour, followed by free time in the city. Later in the day we will have mega-fun ESN Black & White Sitz Party**, followed by Sitz afterparty!!! After a well slept night we'll have breakfast before you have some more time to spend in the city. Then we will be heading back to Tampere. (** "Sitz" or "sitsit" is a dinner feast with special programme. Click here for more information).
If you want to see the oldest city in Finland, have fun while competing in funny games with totally new people, have a great dinner feast and a party, ETTC is for you!
ITINERARY (exact times to be confirmed):
Saturday
9.00 Departure from Tampere
12.00 Arrival to Turku and lunch
13.00 Welcome session, presentations, drink ticket sale for the Sitz dinner party, etc.
14.30 City tour by bus
16.00 Free time for shopping, wandering, etc.
18.00 “Check-in” to accommodation
19.00 ESN Black & White Sitz Party!
23.00-4.00 Sitz Afterparty
You can go to the accommodation at any time.
Sunday
10.30 Check-out from the accommodation
11.00 Breakfast
12.00 Free time to continue exploring the city, lunch, etc.
14.00 Time to say goodbye! Return home from the Cathedral
17.00 Back in Tampere
PRICE: 30 Euro, which includes return bus transportation to Turku, city tour, dinner feast, afterparty, breakfast and accommodation. What an offer!
There are only 25 places available for INTO, so be quick and secure your place! Signup here in the website and we'll contact you with details about payment later on.
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#1
How much is for the journey? And all the trip? I know, it depend if you use a lot of beer, but we need paid for activities or no?