snowshoe adventure
Snoeshoe adventure
Snowshoeing in Swedish Lapland
You love to be active in the beautiful nature and still would like to enjoy a little bit of luxury? Then you are very welcome in our adventure lodge to enjoy one week snowshoeing or/and other daily interesting activities. Snowshoe through the silence of the winterly forests and sleep in a high quality cosy wilderness camp … And last but not least: Visit the world famous Icehotel Jukkasjärvi! Winter pure!
Price
7 days/6 nights SEK 12´490/person from/to Kiruna
(price available if minimum 5 clients - program like below – without optional activities)
Additional night in double room SEK 1'032/person (incl. full board)
30 % reduction for children 4 - 12 years
Included services
- Collective transfer from/to Kiruna
- 1 overnights in the comfortable adventure lodge in double rooms
- 1 overnight in the luxury adventure wilderness camp in warm 5 persons sleeping kotas
- full board during the whole week
- Lugagge transfer during the 3 days snowshoeing
- Enslish/German/French speaking main host
- English and partly german/french guided snowshoeing like program below
Adventure Lodge
Our very comfortable new accomodation welcomes our guests with warm and pleasant doublerooms (shower/WC in each room), which are located right beside our cosy restaurant with its renowned delicious kitchen. A rustic saunahouse with two different saunas is prepared for our guests always after the great outdoor adventures...
The Wilderness Camp is situated 3 km from the main lodge, straight on the shore of the river Kalix – in the middle of the wild north. No road access – the luxury rustic and cosy camp with the complete silence of this beautiful spot will let our clients relax for its best. Between 2 and 5 guests share one heated sleeping kota. A real sauna, heated up with wood and the possibility for ice hole swimming will take care of our guests well being. …
All in all a great experience in the arctic, with the warmth of our hospitality and accommodation - which will never be forgotten!
Monday – Arrival
Transfer from the airport and check-in to the double rooms in the adventure lodge. Depending on arrival time, there will be time to experience for the first time sauna! Welcome dinner and information together with all the guests and the hosts in the evening. Overnight in the double rooms in the Lodge.
Tuesday – snowshoeing on the traces of animals
After breakfast buffet we start to explore the close surrounding of our lodge. With snowshoes we marvell the beautiful snowy trees in the forest, listen to the snow under our shoes while discovering the great riverland, swamps and lakes. Later in the season we already will hear the first birds singing… duration of the tour approx. 2 - 3 hours.
After a lunch back in the restaurant the guests will have time to spend individually… enjoy the nature, head out again by snowshoes or just relax in the sauna! Dinner and overnight in the lodge
Wednesday – Start to the snowshoeing trek
Today we start for our 3 days snowshoeing tour. A small day backpack we carry along the trail. The rest of our personal luggage, as well as all our common equipment we will have transferred by our staff. We enjoy the beauty of the winter. The great riverland around Kalix and Kaitum rivers offers a perfect background for pictures! Picnic during the tour … arrival in our first overnight place. A small cosy and warm cottage – in the middle of wetlands and forest. A real small wilderness cottage – with wooden stoves and candle light. The dinner is prepared on the small stove. Overnight in the cottage. Duration of the tour depending on the group condition – about 4 – 6 hours.
Thursday – Our trek continues
Today we continue our tour after the breakfast. Further we ski through the beautiful forests until we reach our next overnight place, the adventure wilderness camp. Its a cosy and rustic but very luxury camp situated very beautiful on the riverbank of Kalix. Coffee and typical Swedish sweets will be served in the wilderness restaurant before we all together start to prepare the camp for having sauna and staying overnight. Later we relax our muscles from the days action and enjoy the very original wooden heated sauna. A visit into the prepared ice hole will refresh all our senses! Hungry we will enjoy a nice dinner, prepared in the wilderness restaurant. Overnight in 2 – 5 persons sleeping kotas.
Duration of the tour depending on the group condition – about 4 – 5 hours.
Friday – The end of the trek
After the breakfast in the camp we snowshoe slowly back to the lodge. An other perfect day in the snowy winter! After arrival back in the lodge the sauna will be already warm and waiting for us to enter… relax and let the last 3 days pass again in your memory! Dinner and overnight in the lodge.
Duration of the tour depending on the group condition – about 4 – 5 hours.
Saturday – free day
Today you have a day for yourself… or you can book additional acitvites like a husky- or a snowmobile drive. As well we have Swedish army forest skis for free use… make a tour and test them out! An other perfect way to explore the forests!
Sunday – Departure day
After the breakfast we start to go back direction of Kiruna. Short before the airport, we turn off the main road to the village Jukkasjärvi, where the world famous Icehotel is located. Our visit there will stay in your mind still a long time! Have a good trip back home…
Optional activities
A snorting snowmobile safari through the arctic wilds
After our guide introduced us to the driving technic of snowmobiles we start to a snorting tour around the wilderness. 2 persons share one machine. We can switch the driver several times if we want. Enjoy the speed… and maybe we meet some reindeers on our way, see traces of hares, mooses and birds… on a beautiful frozen lake we take a break and enjoy a simple lunch around an open fire. When the weather conditions allow it, we also try our luck in ice fishing! Once more a great ride brings us back home. Duration of the tour approx. 4 – 5 hours. Sauna, dinner and overnight in the lodge. Price 1530/person
The sami camp and a ride with theirs reindeers
One day we can meet samish friends of our hosts. By skis we reach theirs kota camp, where they keep also some reindeers. We will learn how to throw the lasso and also get the chance to try out to do some reindeer sledding. A lunch (typical samish) will be served while the samis tell us lots of interesting things of theirs culture and reindeer husbandry. Duration of the program 3 – 4 hours. Price 990/person
How to build an igloo? Explore it…
After the breakfast we get to know, how to build an igloo – until we get the round beauty. Lunch we enjoy in the warmth of the restaurant. To sleep on a reindeer skin in an igloo is to experience the warm’ in the cold winter night. Feel free to try it out! Otherwise stay like used in our cosy doublerooms! Dinner in the lodge. Price 864/person
A marvellous husky tour to the Kaitum nature reserve
Here we can add one more highlight: The huskies. After meeting these lovely animals we hear a lot about theirs training, handling and grooming up, we will get as well a introduction how to drive the team. Our guide will explain us all we need to enjoy a exciting ride with a husky team. Two guests share one husky team. Both will have the chance to get the feeling of driving. We enjoy our tour through the Kaitum nature reserve. An untouched very beautiful area. During the tour we will have a lunch on a open fire before we continue our trip back to the lodge. Duration of the tour approx. 4 – 5 hours. Sauna, Dinner and overnight in the lodge. Price 1480/person
Skiing with special forest skis – on the traces of animals
After breakfast buffet we start to explore the close surrounding of our lodge. With real Swedish army skis we marvell the beautiful snowy trees in the forest, listen to the snow under our shoes while discovering the great riverland, swamps and lakes. Later in the season we already will hear the first birds singing… duration of the tour approx. 2 - 3 hours. Price 630/person
