Rovaniemi (Apukka Area): The Northern Lights - 7 Days

Arrival transfer from the airport to your accommodation, in Rovaniemi, or to the Apukka Resort*, located outside Rovaniemi in Finland. You will have free time in order to rest after your trip and tomorrow you will start your Lapland adventure.  Accommodation *Upon availability.

After breakfast you will pay a visit to a typical Sami Reindeer farm. Here you will be able to experience a memorable  reindeer sleigh ride.  Transportation by car to a reindeer farm to try reindeer sleighing. This traditional way of travelling through snowy forests is a unique experience – in the evening, you may even see the Northern Lights blaze up the sky. Return to accomodation (Ice Snow hotel where you will overnight in an Ice Room (0 to -5C) or in a warm Glass Igloo uppon availability) . 

After breakfast you will start our excursion towards Kemi – located 2-3 hours drive from Apukka (180 km). You will visit the Sampo Icebreaker ship and join the ice-breaking cruise into the Baltic Sea. This tour is not operating every day and all the seasson along, so we will have to reconfirm the day and possibility to join this cruise in the tour. Sampo has operated since 1961, first as an icebreaker for the Finnish government, and in tourism since 1988. A cruise on Sampo offers you the most exciting, memorable moments in the Arctic nature; while the huge vessel breaks ice, you may admire the beauty of vast open ice fields all around, and the ever changing sky above. Travel back to your hotel and overnight.