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Journey beginning at Lapland, and ending at Rovaniemi, Finland
Available: 2024-12-29 to 2025-01-02 starting from $3910 AUD
Celebrating the New Year in Lapland is a wonderful experience – with the snow topped landscapes outside, and cosy fires indoors. This tour is based in a small town outside Rovaniemi and introduces you to the incredible animals of the Arctic. Based within the wildlife park complex, you will see polar bears as well as enjoy endless visits into the wildlife park. Enjoy one of our favourite Scandinavian winter experiences – local fireworks at your doorstep!!
Arrival at Rovaniemi airport and transfer to your hotel (approx. 1 hour). Families will enjoy the private self-catering apartments, sleeps 6 (4 adults and 2 children) newly built in 2012. With your own sauna, lounge with log fire and kitchen in these semi-detached wooden houses, you have a great spot to relax with your family.
Upon arrival at the hotel you will be shown your accommodation and hotel services. Head out for some snow angels and fun in the snow. Following this, you will enjoy your first taste of delicious Finnish food as you enjoy dinner in the main hotel dining room.
This morning, it’s time to familiarise yourself with the Ranua Zoo. Meet zoo keepers and learn interesting information on the White King of the Arctic – and the Wildlife Park.
This afternoon, get set for a Husky Safari. You will first receive detailed information on steering the sled. Then, the comfortable sleds head from Gulo Gulo into the winter wonderland. A sled can transport two adults and a child. You have the opportunity to steer your own sled, and change drivers with the other adult in the sled halfway. After the safari, you have a chance to ask our guides anything you have always wanted to know about sled dogs, who love to run fast and pull a sled, thus offering the visitors an unforgettable experience to enjoy the ancient, natural way of travelling in the wild.
Today, you have an unique chance to visit a traditional reindeer farm hosted by the reindeer herders of the three generation with more than 300 reindeers. The safari starts with driving instructions, after which we head towards Laivala, an authentic reindeer farm. The reindeer herder welcomes you, tells you about reindeer husbandry and living in harmony with nature. After visiting the reindeer enclosures, the owner family takes you on a reindeer sled ride for about one kilometre. After the reindeer ride, a hot meal is served in a Lapp hut. Return to the safari house on snowmobiles.
Optional activities you can also include on this tour include horse sleigh ride, wellness packages, icefishing, wolf dog nature experience, craft, snowshoeing and nordic skiing.
This evening, enjoy a traditional Finnish New Years with fireworks, gala dinner and melting a candle tin in the snow for good luck and prosperity.
Today, enjoy a more peaceful day with long wintry sleigh ride in the snowy wonderland! Be at peace inside the beautiful Ukonkangas forest, which is located next to the Wildlife Park. You will be taken on a smooth carriage ride through the beautiful nature and pure forests. Hear the stories behind our love for Lapland while the horses take you through the wintry scenery!
Tonight, move to your Glass Igloo for the evening. The Arctic Fox Igloos are located on the naturally beautiful, peaceful shores of the lake Ranuanjärvi, far from disturbing city light pollutions. Each Igloo offers an unobstructed view to the far-reaching open lake, and the northern skies, where the Northern Lights usually appear. Set some time aside for your private sauna in the glass igloo.
As night falls, time to rev the engines again on the snowmobiles for a Northern Lights tour – fingers crossed, the Aurora will shine for you tonight?
Follow our guide from Gulo Gulo to the snowmobile track. The guide will teach you how to ride a snowmobile and what precautions to take. The snowmobiles have excellent headlights that guarantee good visibility, even on dark forest trails. We take a couple of short breaks on the way and enjoy a cup of hot juice by an open fire at the halfway point. If we are lucky, we will be treated with one of the most amazing natural phenomena in the world: the Northern Lights.
Return and settle back into your glass igloo for the Arctic evening sky.
NOTE: Please note that the igloo stay could be another evening during your visit, determined at time of booking.
After breakfast, return to the Rovaniemi airport. If you wish, please talk to us about visiting Rovaniemi along the way to say hello to Santa or to visit some of the cultural and science museums situated in this large Finnish town.
To find out more or to book this incredible tour, contact Globetrotter Lifestyle today!