Holiday in Helsinki and Lapland 8-15.3.

HOLIDAY IN HELSINKI AND IN LAPLAND 8.-15.3. 

Accommodation: 

• 8.-11.3. apartment with proper kitchen shared with two other guest families OR own apartment with kitchenette (here are 3 bathroom, one room has its own)
• 11.-13.3. log cabin either at a wilderness hotel (a kitchenette) or a serviced log cabin apartment (3 individual apartments in total in the house, all with kicthen and own sauna/bathroom)
• 13-14.3. glass igloo night 
• 14.-15.3. guesthouse room in an old log house in Rovaniemi ORa loft apartment on aurora island

Meals: full pension 

Transfers: all necessary trnsfers except flights included

Itinerary: 

Fri 8.3.

• 6:15-7:05 Qatar Airways flight from Muscat to Doha
• 8:15-13.25 Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Helsinki
• guide welcoming you at the airport
• airport transfer
• arrival to a city apartment with 3 guestrooms
• 15-18:00 walk in the neighborhood in Töölö: Rock church and National Gallery
• 18:00 Finnish welcome dinner at the apartment
• night in a guestroom

Sat 9.3. Winter Day in Helsinki

• breakfast at the apartment
• guide picks you up from the apartment
• 10:00-12:00 visit to Suomenlinna
• 12:00 lunch by the sea (resturant Ursula or Uunisaari depending on weather)
• 13:30-16:00 driving a round trip in Helsinki by the seaside (Seurasaari), popping into Sealife aquarium and or the zoo as agreed
• 18:00 dinner in town or brough to your apartment  
• night in a guestroom

Sun 10.3. Day tour to Nuuksio National park

• breakfast at the apartment
• 10:00 drive to the Haltia nature centre
• 11-12:00 visit at the nature centre, lunch there
• 12-14:00 outdoor activity
• sauna at a nice log cabin close to the National Park
• night in a guestroom

Mon 11.3.

• breakfast at the apartment
• 09.20 airport transfer 
• 11.40-13:20 flight AY603 from Helsinki to Ivalo 
• airport transfer 
• 14:30 arrival in Saariselkä area
• check-in in hotel Muotka Lodge OR a log cabin in Kakslauttanen area (not the hotel)
• 18-20:00 dinner 
• night in a log cabin 

Tue 12.3. 

• breakfast
• 10-12:00 snowshoeing (we can rent a Lappish toboggan for the child)
• 12-14:00 lunch
• 16-18:00 visit to a reindeer farm (with transfers)
• 18-20:00 dinner
• night in a log cabin

Wed 13.3. 

• breakfast
• 9:15 transfer to the husky farm
• 10-14:00 husky safari with lunch 
• transfer to Saariselkä to Muotka Wilderness lodge
• 18-20:00 dinner 
• night in a glass igloo

Thu 14.3. Tankavaara 

• breakfast
• 9:30 departure to Tankavaara by a minivan
• 10-12:00 visit to the Tankavaara gold museum OR snowshoeing 7km (on track)
• 12-13:00 lunch 
• 13-15:00 visiting a local Sámi artistat her home on a reindeer farm: Sámi traditions 
• arrival to Rovaniemi
• night in Lauri guesthouse
• northern light hunting with a professional photographer

Fri 15.3. Santa Claus in Rovaniemi 

• breakfast
• 10-12:00 artisan workshop at the guesthouse (making a personalized souvenir)
• 12-14:00 visit to the Arktikum and lunch buffet there
• 14-17:00 private visit to Santa's secret cabin 
• 17:00 arrival to the airport
• 18.30-19:50 flight AY536 from Rovaniemi to Helsinki
• 22.55-06.15 flight AY 6038 from Helsinki to Doha
• 07.25-10.15 flights AY6025 from Doha to Muscat