Finland_Northern Lights Wilderness Tour with Professional Camera

What's included?

• Hotel pick-up/drop-off for accommodations outside the city centre. Extra surcharge if staying 10 kilometres or further from the centre,
• Professional winter clothing and boots,
• Professional Aurora guide with camera,
• Pictures taken by the guide sent to you the next day,
• Campfire snacks and hot drinks,
• Small-group tour only (maximum of 8 people),
• All taxes, fees and handling charges.

Exclusions
The group is limited to 8 guests maximum. If you are a larger group, please contact us and we can arrange a specific tour for you.

If your accommodation is in Rovaniemi city center, we kindly ask you to walk to our office. Read below why.
We have been awarded the Sustainable Travel Finland (STF) batch for sustainable tourism operations in Finnish Lapland. Sustainable business operations are of utmost importance to us. We have therefore decided to no longer do city pickups. If you are staying in the city center, we would kindly ask you to come to our office (our address: Rovakatu 24, 96200 Rovaniemi) and start the tour from there.
You are not staying in the city center nor is your pickup location listed as an option? No problem! Please send us an email with your address and we take it from there.

Note: Pick-up starts 60 minute(s) before departure.
We offer pick-up to the following places for this experience:

• Apukka Resort (Transfer fee is € 40 / one-way - please contact us)
• Arctic Snow Hotel (Transfer fee is € 60 / one-way - please contact us)
• Arctic TreeHouse Hotel
• Guesthouse Borealis
• Hostel Ibedcity
• Läkituvat Cottages / Meeting point
• Lapland Hotels Ounasvaara Chalets
• Lapland Hotels Sky Ounasvaara
• Motelli Rovaniemi
• Napapiirin Saarituvat Cottages
• Santa Claus Holiday Village Reception
• Santa's Igloos Arctic Circle
• Vaattunki Wilderness Resort (Transfer fee is € 60 / one-way - please contact us)
• Walk in the office / City Centre accommodation

After being picked up from your accommodation and properly dressed with professional winter overalls and boots (temperature can drop to -30°C!), your Northern Lights guide will drive you far away from Rovaniemi, straight out to the wilderness to start hunting for the Northern Lights.
During the day, we always check the weather forecasts and the solar activity reports. This way, we can adapt the start of the tour to give you the best chance to enjoy the clearer sky and observe the Northern Lights. Based on the analysis of the meteorological situation and our experience, we will drive to locations that will hopefully offer a better chance to see this natural phenomenon. For example, if the forecasts and Northern Lights predictions are not promising around the Rovaniemi area, your guide can take you further afield to get a better sky.
The weather conditions are checked during the tour, and we may decide together to jump back in the minivan and get to another location if we wish. As this excursion is a 4-hour Northern Lights hunt, you will get the chance to visit up to 3 different locations and increase your chance to observe the Northern Lights.
This excursion will also offer you the unique opportunity to drive long distances through the Lappish wilderness, explore the Arctic nature and take on different routes that will lead you to fantastic scenery; snowy forests, powerful rapids, quaint frozen beaches and vast ice covered lakes. Hopefully, with the Northern Lights dancing over your heads!
Refreshments and a typical Finnish campfire snack will be provided halfway, as your guide lights a fire to keep you warm. This is a great opportunity for your guide to show you how to build a fire using traditional methods. No need for matches or a lighter, your guide will use flint & steel and natural materials you can find in the nature that surrounds you (this can be done in conditions as cold as -30°C!). Once the fire is burning and the kettle is boiling, your guide will keep an eye on the moving sky. This break around the campfire will be also the perfect moment for your guide to answer all your questions about Lapland, life in the Arctic and the Northern Lights. Hot drinks are served, sausages are grilled over the campfire and bread toasted for you.
We invite you to take your camera with you (you can rent or buy a tripod from us if you wish) to capture the Northern Lights. In all cases, your guide will be equipped with a professional camera and will take many pictures for you, of you and the Northern Lights. A link to download all the pictures will be sent to you the next day.
On all our excursions, our groups are limited to 8 people maximum. It is very important for us to provide you with the best experience possible, and avoid mass tourism. This way, your guide will know you better and will be able to address all your needs and answer your questions. Furthermore, when it comes to the Northern Lights, chances to observe them properly are increased when groups (and light pollution emitted by torches, phones, cameras, etc.) are reduced. As we usually say - the smaller the group, the bigger the experience!

The Northern Lights are a natural occurrence, which activity, vibrancy of color cannot be guaranteed on the evening of the tour.
Cold weather clothing will be provided, but we recommend to dress appropriately. Not recommended for participants with heart complaints or other serious medical conditions. This experience may require a certain amount of walking.
This safari will operate in any weather conditions. Even though the Northern Lights prediction is low, you will still enjoy a great experience into the wilderness.
Hotel pick-ups commence 10 - 60 minutes prior to the start time. Your pick up time will be confirmed by email.

• We will charge a cancellation fee of 100% if booking is cancelled 1 day or less before the event
• We will charge a cancellation fee of 50% if booking is cancelled 7 days or less before the event
• We will charge a cancellation fee of 10% if booking is cancelled 365 days or less before the event