Four places. Nine nights. Under a moving sky.
A signature route. Your dates, length and pace are yours.
Each stay takes you a little further from the lights. Fly in to Rovaniemi, home from Ivalo.
Arrive in the snow. A first walk in the forest on snowshoes, and the Arktikum, to understand where you are.
Your winter clothes are fitted on the first afternoon.
The airport is about fifteen minutes from town.
Fells and old forest at the edge of Urho Kekkonen National Park. A husky team for a morning, and a cabin with a glass roof.
The roof is glass, and the nights are long.
From Rovaniemi, about three hours by road.
Siida, the Sámi museum and nature centre. A morning with a reindeer herding family. Ice fishing on the frozen lake.
Lake Inari is Finland’s third largest lake, frozen for much of the year.
From Saariselkä, about forty minutes.
The northernmost village in the country, on the Teno river and the Norwegian border. Few lights, and wide skies.
The darkest skies on the route, and the best place to wait for the lights.
From Inari, about an hour and a half. Ivalo airport is about two hours back.
A midwinter day from the middle of the journey, to show its pace.
Illustrative. Your days are designed around you.It is still dark outside. Coffee, porridge, lingonberries.
Your own sled behind a team of dogs, through the forest as the light comes up.
A Lappish hut with a fire in the middle, and salmon cooked on a plank beside it.
The sun sets early. The snow turns blue, then violet.
Wood-fired, with a roll in the snow after, for those who want one.
Reindeer, Arctic char, cloudberries with cream.
Back to the glass roof. If the lights come, someone wakes you.
Here is what usually changes.
Slower, quieter, more time alone.
Room to be together, and room to split up.
Shorter outings, warm breaks, and things children remember.
Your own pace, and company when you want it.
Four and five star hotels, boutique cabins and lodges, each one we would choose ourselves.
Guides who know the cold, the forest and the Sámi culture of the north.
Thermal suits, boots and mittens, fitted when you arrive.
Drivers who know icy roads, and the reindeer on them.
A named contact in Lapland and one at Truvela, throughout your journey.
If the weather closes in, we change the day with you.
Tell us when you would like to go and who is coming. We take it from there. Your proposal is free, with no obligation.
Or write to hello@truvelatravel.com