Enjoy Finnish Christmas traditions at Särkijärvi from December 23 to 28, 2011
Meet Father Christmas, spend Christmas holiday in cosy family atmosphere.
December, 23
Arrival at Kittilä, transfer to Särkijärvi, check-in. Welcome drink and information, dinner.
December, 24
Breakfast, delivery of warm outdoor clothing. Traditional Finnish Christmas activities such as:
fetching a Christmas tree from the forest, decorating the tree
making ice lanterns
making Christmas decorations, baking gingerbread cookies
heating of traditional sauna by the lake
Finnish style Christmas dinner
Santa Claus pays a visit and comes with a reindeer, a gift for everyone
December, 25
Breakfast
Snowshoe trip to a „lavvu“ including a picnic lunch, duration approximately 3 hours (3 km of walking per direction, the trail is easy)
Dinner
December, 26
Breakfast
3 hours husky program (approximately 15 km safari – 2 persons per dog team – after the safari introduction to the farm and coffee in a Lappish tent. Return back to Särkijärvi)
Lunch in a restaurant
Free time in the afternoon
Dinner
December, 27
Breakfast
Reindeer program in Torassieppi. Tranfer from Särkijärvi to the reindeer farm is done in a sled pulled by a snowmobile, this is a nice opportunity to be able to observe the winter landscapes. In Torassieppi, there is an old Lappish reindeer farm, and the owner tells us about reindeer husbandry. We will make a 3 km long safari with reindeer and finish the visit with a traditional Lappish soup served in a “kota”. Return to Särkijärvi in the sled.
Farewell dinner
December, 28
Breakfast, check-out and transfer to Kittilä airport
December, 23
Arrival at Kittilä, transfer to Särkijärvi, check-in. Welcome drink and information, dinner.
December, 24
Breakfast, delivery of warm outdoor clothing. Traditional Finnish Christmas activities such as:
fetching a Christmas tree from the forest, decorating the tree
making ice lanterns
making Christmas decorations, baking gingerbread cookies
heating of traditional sauna by the lake
Finnish style Christmas dinner
Santa Claus pays a visit and comes with a reindeer, a gift for everyone
December, 25
Breakfast
Snowshoe trip to a „lavvu“ including a picnic lunch, duration approximately 3 hours (3 km of walking per direction, the trail is easy)
Dinner
December, 26
Breakfast
3 hours husky program (approximately 15 km safari – 2 persons per dog team – after the safari introduction to the farm and coffee in a Lappish tent. Return back to Särkijärvi)
Lunch in a restaurant
Free time in the afternoon
Dinner
December, 27
Breakfast
Reindeer program in Torassieppi. Tranfer from Särkijärvi to the reindeer farm is done in a sled pulled by a snowmobile, this is a nice opportunity to be able to observe the winter landscapes. In Torassieppi, there is an old Lappish reindeer farm, and the owner tells us about reindeer husbandry. We will make a 3 km long safari with reindeer and finish the visit with a traditional Lappish soup served in a “kota”. Return to Särkijärvi in the sled.
Farewell dinner
December, 28
Breakfast, check-out and transfer to Kittilä airport
Eur 870 / child 4-14 years
Booking: info
auroralaplandtravel.fi, tel. +358 40 550 8295Price includes:
- trakuljetukset KTT apt - Särkijärvi - KTT apt
- All the transfers mentioned in the program
- Accommodation in apartments for 2-4 persons that include kitchen, sauna/shower/wc, separate bedroom with two beds, a loft upstairs that has beds for two persons
(if there is large family or group of 4 adults + children, the accommodation is in a larger semidetached house, containing two separate bedrooms each having two beds, spacious extra room with beds for three, sauna/shower, separate wc, spacious living room + open kitchen, chimney)
- Full board starting with a dinner upon arrival and ending with breakfast upon departure
- 24.12. traditional Christmas program: fetching the Christmas tree, decorating the tree, making of ice lanterns, Christmas decorations and baking gingerbread cookies;
- tradition Finnish Christmas dinner
- Santa Claus’es visit, reindeer and a gift for everyone
- 3 hours husky program (~ 15 km husky safari, 2 pax/dog team; after safari introduction to the kennel and coffee in a ”kota”)
- 3 hours snowshoe hike to a fire shelter, picnic lunch
- reindeer program in Torassieppi; transfer in a sled pulled by a snowmobile from Särkijärvi to Torassieppi and back, reindeer’s year program and 3 km reindeer safari + tradtional Lappish soup lunch in a ”kota”
- Warm outdoor equipment for the duration of the stay
- English and French speaking guide
