Christmas - fairytale
You would like to spend Christmas once in the real winter? Then you are very welcome in our charming lodge to enjoy one week with daily interesting activities. Besides a real traditional Christmas celebration we offer you to experience the speed of a snowmobile, enjoy an exciting ride with the friendly huskies, get to know the Sami people and their reindeers. Snowshoe through the silence of the winterly forests. Build an igloo and sleep in a high quality cosy wilderness camp … And last but not least: Visit the world famous Icehotel Jukkasjärvi! Winter pure! With the best activities!
Departure (Monday) and price
21 December 2009
7 days/6 nights SEK 15´750/person from/to Kiruna (in double room, incl. all activities)
(equivalent in Euros by 1.12.2009)
For shorter budgets there is the possibility to exclude following activities:
Snowmobile Safari SEK1'530/person
Husky Safari SEK 1'480/person
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
- 5 overnights in the comfortable Lodge in double rooms
- 1 overnight in the luxury Wilderness Camp in warm 5 persons sleeping kotas
- full board during the whole week
- Christmas celebration with a small present
- English guided activities like program below
- Warm thermo overalls, boots, hats and gloves
The 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!
Activity Program
21.12. – Arrival
Transfer from the airport to the lodge. Check in to the double rooms. Depending on arrival time, there will be time to experience for the first time sauna! All our guests will be provided with warm clothing. Welcome dinner and information together with all the guests and the hosts in the evening. Overnight in the double rooms in the Lodge.
22.12. – 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
23.12. – 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.
24.12. – Christmas eve - enjoy a ride with reindeers and overnight in our cosy wilderness camp
Let´s do it like in the traditional story book: Our samish friends will welcome us today – they will introduce us into the husbandry of the reindeers. Get to know these lovely animals, learn, how they are groomed and cared about and – learn a lot about the traditional culture of the sami people! Our friends will tell you everything you want to know! After a warm lunch in the restaurant we will go up to our wilderness camp – by reindeer sledge. Two and two share one reindeer and one sledge. Enjoy the real traditional sami way of travelling! After reaching the camp we start to look for our Christmas tree in the close surrounding. We bring it back to the camp and start to decorate it. After a traditional wooden heated Christmas sauna, we are hungry enough to enjoy the great Christmas buffet. There we find all the delicatesses, which are all over Sweden in the christmastables. Bon appetite! And – who would guess it: Father Christmas finds his way even up here to our camp! Overnight in 2 – 5 persons sleeping kotas.
25.12. – how to build an igloo? Explore it…
After the breakfast in the camp we go back to the lodge in the sledge of the snowmobile. After enjoying a simple lunch in the warmth of the lodges restaurant we get to know, how to build an igloo – until we get the round beauty. To sleep on a reindeer skin in a 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.
26.12. – a marvellous husky safari to the Kaitum nature reserve
Today we will enjoy one more highlight of the week. The huskies. After meeting these lovely animals we hear a lot about their training, handling and breeding, 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.
27.12. – 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…
