Christmas in Kakslauttanen

22 DEC

Fly To Your Dreams Scheduled flight(s) from London via Helsinki to Ivalo in Northern Finnish Lapland. Arrive early evening and transfer to hotel. Settle in to your private log cabin and dinner at the hotel.

23 DEC

Mush a Husky Team After breakfast, start your days of Lapland magic with a husky safari through and across the enchanting wilderness. Adults mush their own team of dogs and children ride in a sleigh behind your guide and, as the dogs pull you along a snow-carpeted trail, the silence is broken only by the whooshing sound of the sleigh’s runners slicing through the snow. En route, enjoy a lunch cooked over an open fire. Dinner at the hotel.

CHRISTMAS EVE

Find and Meet Santa After breakfast you set off by snowmobile for a twenty minute ride to Santa’s home where you are welcomed with hot chocolate and gingerbread cookies by an Elf. He then escorts you across a bridge once Bridge Keeper Elf has granted you special permission to cross a secret sunken bog under the snow. Once on the other side you meet the Gold Elves who strike gold nuggets in their forge which fly with messages all over the world. Then you are greeted by Santa in his home with a hot berry juice and, after making known your wishes, visit Rudolph and the other reindeer in their corral and take a sleigh ride with Dancer or Prancer. You can also toboggan down a special magic hill before returning to Kakslauttanen by bus for lunch at the hotel. Carol Singing and a Visit from Santa In the late afternoon there is an optional carol service at Tieva Chapel, a simple wooden chapel built from dead pine logs from the old prayer house at Ivalo. Afterwards there is a traditional Sami Christmas Eve Dinner served in the main log house before Father Christmas arrives on his sleigh and delivers a small present to everyone, adults and children alike.

CHRISTMAS DAY

Snowmobile through the Forest After a leisurely breakfast it’s time for a wilderness snowmobile safari following your guide along a trail amongst the magnificent fells, broad mires and backwoods lying at the edge of the Urho Kekkonen National Park with adults paired together and children wrapped up under warm reindeer skins in a specially built sleigh. Lunch en route by an open fire in the nomadic Sami manner before continuing back to the hotel. Afternoon at leisure and dinner in the hotel.

BOXING DAY

Take Your Dreams Home After breakfast you’ll have time for a last play in the snow before carefully packing up your dreams and transferring to Ivalo for your Finnair scheduled flights to Heathrow where you arrive early evening local time.