Wild reindeer in the mountains outside Kirkenes - Northern Norway is amazing in summer❤

Just outside Kirkenes city in Northern Norway you can meet wild reindeer when you go hiking. This bull was grazing on lichens close to a popular hiking trail in the mountains when I met him. In this area there are daily encounters between humans and reindeer, so he was cautious, but probably not too stressed by my presence. Reindeer in Norway belong to to the subspecies “mountain reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus)“. Read more about it here: The reinde