New Year By Lake Inari

DEC 29 UK – LAPLAND 

Depart Heathrow at 10.20 on Finnair scheduled flight(s) to Ivalo via Helsinki. Arrive 17.35 local time and transfer to Nellim. Check into your room and enjoy a leisurely dinner.

DEC 30 HUSKY SAFARI 

This morning it’s time to meet the pack of Alaskan huskies whose kennels in the forest are just a short walk from the hotel and whose excited barking slowly magnifies as you approach them through the trees. Adults mush their own team of dogs and as the dogs pull you along a snow-carpeted trail the silence is broken only by the whooshing sound of slicing sleigh runners. Lunch at hotel. Later spend an afternoon of games in the snow on the sloping bank running down to the lake with snow shoeing, tobogganing, ice fishing and reindeer lasso throwing practice. Dinner at the hotel.

NEW YEAR’S EVE 

After breakfast, climb aboard your snowmobile for a safari through the pine forests surrounding Lake Inari and lunch washed down with hot berry juice. New Year’s Eve is celebrated quietly with a simple menu of local produce. As the evening wears on there will be music, fireworks and fortunes told from the shapes formed by melting tin.

NEW YEAR’S DAY

Leisurely,late breakfast before a visit to a nearby reindeer corral to meet a herder along with his herd. In the evening take a snowmobile out to a special spot by Lake Inari to stake out the Northern Lights for perhaps one of nature’s dazzling light shows to end your stay.

JAN 2 LAPLAND – UK 

Breakfast and time for a last toboggan before transfer to Ivalo and return flight(s) via Helsinki to Heathrow, taking off after lunch and arriving early evening.