Valtimo is a town in North Karelia, Finland, nowadays part of Nurmes.

Get in

By bus from Nurmes, Joensuu, Kajaani or Oulu. See Matkahuolto. From Nurmes you can also use the twice-weekly (W F) dial-a-ride service Katuri.

Get around

The Katuri dial-a-ride service of Nurmes serves also Valtimo. The Wednesday service from Nurmes connects to the local routes, which likewise drive Wednesdays and Fridays. See the routes, times, prices and phone numbers from the web page, check details when calling the driver, at latest 2–3 hr before the ride.

By taxi

See North Karelia#By taxi

• Smartphone app (as of 2020): 02 Taksi

See

A feeling of emptiness at Valtimo railway station.

• 1 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

• 1 Puukarin Pysäkki, Kajaanintie, ☏ +358 50-344-3824, majatalo@puukarinpysakki.fi. Inn a little out of town. Good Karelian food. Also programme services. single €66, double €104; lunch €17–26, dinner €28–48. 

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.