Along the Ume River

The second day of this weekend it was time to move the body too, but today with help of the bikes. We biked along the Ume River on the Ume Trail ("Umeleden").








First stop: Backen's church. The first church was built on this place already during the 12th century, the current shape is from the 1500's.










Close to this area was Umedalen's sculpture park. We didn't find a map over the area, so we probably missed some of the sculptures, since they were spread out around the houses.














On the south side of the river is Umeå Energy Center, with Klabböle power station which was the first hydro power station in this area (decommissioned since the end of the 50's due to the building of a much larger power station upstream).




Back on the north side again is Arboretum North, where plants suitable for this climate are featured.

We spent some time at the quite dried out river bed, on this stretch of the river most of the water flows in a tunnel underneath from the larger power station. Some people were swimming in the river, but we just dipped our feet.
From here we had a nice view of Baggböle mansion.

Back home we biked on the south side of the river.
First we passed the outlet of water from the power station, and the amount of water in the river increased dramatically. Close to here was also a slide constructed for moving the timber past the power station.

After some more kilometers we could see Umeå city again, and the Church bridge across Umeälven.