Name: 8 Day Guided Snowmobile Tour in Sweden, Norway, and Finland
Brand: Jukkasjaervi VildmarksTurer AB
Price: 37000 SEK
Availability: InStock

Breathtaking Sweden, Norway and Finland Snowmobile Tour

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Discover the unique winter landscape of northern Scandinavia on a snowmobile. This tour will take you right into the last wilderness of Europe and show you the untouched nature in the border triangle of Norway, Sweden, and Finland. Experience the wide tundra, snow-covered forests, the breathtaking mountain world, and the fantastic landscape north of the Arctic Circle. Enjoy Nordic specialties and let yourself be abducted into the world of Sápmi. On this tour, you will experience the nature of Lapland in a unique way.

Key information

Terrain: off-road
Bike: rental snowmobile
Mileage: 600 - 850 kilometers / 373 miles
Daily rides: 75 - 180 kilometers / 47 - 112 miles
Riding gear: included: overall, shoes, helmet, and gloves
Meals: full-board basis

Meet the instructors

Mats & Marcus
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Highlights

Starts and ends in Kiruna
Discover untouched wilderness and snow-covered landscapes on a snowmobile
Opportunity to see the Sami people and their reindeer, and learn about their life
Visit ice hotels en route
7 nights accommodation
Airport transfers

Skill level

Intermediate

7 days with instruction

Group size: 3-10 participants

Airport transfer included: Kiruna Airport

Program

Welcome to Swedish Lapland and its fantastic wilderness! During the coming week, you will experience both Sweden’s and Norway’s breathtaking landscapes, from Kiruna to the Arctic Ocean of northern Norway.

The journey will take you along trails that have been used by few before you, through virgin wilderness down to the Norwegian coast of the Arctic Ocean. Along the way, you’ll meet Sami and their reindeer, and learn about their way of life before and now.

Tour plan

Day 1

After arriving in Kiruna, the team will pick you up and bring you to the camp near Jukkasjärvi. Your guide will welcome you and provide you with winter clothing for the tour. In the evening there is a dinner in your Kåta. Afterward, the guide will inform you about the tour and explain the safety precautions.

Accommodation in a cozy 4-bed hut in the camp.

Day 2

After breakfast and briefing by the guide, you will start the tour; you follow an old smuggler trail in the direction of Finland. On the way, you pass the world's most famous ice hotel, the first and only. In the middle, you make a stop at Sekkutoppa cabin and will enjoy lunch outside there if the weather is good over an open fire. In Soppero where you will be staying over the night in 2-4 bedrooms, there's a sauna in the basement and showers. The guide will make you dinner. You need to refill the snowmobiles here.

The trail today is 75-80 kilometers / 47 - 50 miles.

Day 3

Today you drive to the Finnish border and end in Karesuando (100 meters away from the border to Finland). You will drive through snowy forests, over frozen lakes and rivers, and an open moorland. Overnight stay will be at small 2-3 bedroom cabins or in the main house in Karesuando.

The trail today is approximately 80-100 kilometers (50 - 62 miles) depending on trial, reindeer, etc.

Day 4

You leave the camp in Karesuando. Your day’s trip leads over the Könkemää River and is taking you to Kilpisjärvi in Finland. You spend the night in a very nice timber hut. You can take a sauna in the evening to relax.

The stage of the day: approximately 120 kilometers / 75 miles.

Day 5

Today’s stage takes you along a part of Princess Viktoria Trail and the Könkemää River, and you follow the trails up to Treriksröset, where Sweden, Finland, and Norway meet at one point and continue, you have three different alternatives to choose from today:

Go to Signal Valley down to Hatteng directly on the Norwegian coast. In this valley, there might be a lot of Ice from the Atlantic coast weather, there might also be a problem with snow
Drive to Halti, Finland's highest mountain (1400 meters)
Visit Pältsa plateau (the mountain chain is Skanderna. a Scandinavian mountain chain with a very beautiful trail)

The tour leader will take a decision on where to go depending on the weather, trails, the snow conditions, and where Sami people have Reindeer at the moment. Your guide will receive the information up in Kilpisjärvi from the local authorities.

All alternatives will be more or less the same in terms of distance, approximately 80 - 130 kilometers / 50 - 81 miles.

Day 6

After breakfast, you leave Finland and follow the trails to the area of Rostojaure, a big fishing camp in the Swedish tundra. You make a stop and continue in the direction of Torneträsk and to your accommodation for the night in Väkkäräjärvi. This is in the middle of nowhere.

In Väkkäräjärvi you will stay in 4-bed cabins, dinner is made by your host as it's wintertime up there. Enjoy the sauna in the evening. The distance today is 160-180 kilometers / 99 - 112 miles.

Day 7

Start riding to your base camp where you started the tour. On the way, you stop at an ice hotel and visit a Sami village. When you are back, the team will take care of the snowmobiles and all equipment from the tour. Dinner in the evening in the Kåta at Base Camp.

Day 8

Departure day. Depending on your flight times, you can visit Kiruna's new town.

Note

The tour plan listed here is a preliminary plan. The length of the daily stages as well as the course of the route depend on circumstances, we have no influence on, e.g. weather conditions, trafficability of the routes, snow conditions, reindeer herds etc.

Participants of the tour must have a driver's license for car to drive a snowmobile.

Children aged 16 and up are allowed to sit behind their parents on one snowmobile.

Skill level required for this tour: intermediate

Intermediate:

can ride for 3-4 hours
average riding experience
little assistance required
comfortable with extreme curves and leans
average experience with unsurfaced roads
steep ascents and descents

Instructors

Mats Rullander

Mats Rullander and Rune Müller (both fluent in English and German) were part of the Swedish Mountain Ranger School for about 30 years. For this reason, they have thorough knowledge and experience with life in the north. Both know the magnificent landscape to even the smallest detail. Mats and Rune have special permits from the Norwegian authorities, allowing them to drive routes far off the traditional tourist routes, giving an insight into truly untouched landscapes.

Marcus

Marcus will be your guide on this trip. He has been working for 15 years with this kind of tour.

Food

You will be served meals on a full-board basis.

The following meals are included:

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner

The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:

Regular (typically includes meat and fish)

If you have special dietary requirements it's a good idea to communicate it to the organiser when making a reservation

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