Snowmobile across the Arctic tundra in the heart of Norwegian Lapland under the mystical phenomena of the Northern Lights. Fashion your trip exactly as you would like it from our range of excursions including husky mushing, reindeer sled racing, mountain sledging and more.
Alta is a superb base camp for snow adventures and spotting the Northern Lights. Dubbed ‘the last great wilderness in Europe’, the landscape and scenery is awesomely varied both by geography and season: running the gamut of Gulf stream bathed fjord waters through vast snow clad plateaux and from the reds and golds of autumn to the slate white of winter. It’s proximity to the magnetic North Pole means you also have one of the best chances on earth (literally) of seeing the Northern Lights.
DAY1 UK-ALTA
Scheduled flights[s] from UK to Alta via Oslo. Self transfer to and overnight at Hotel Vica. Buffet dinner at the hotel.
The Rica has the standards you’d expect from Norway’s leading hotel chain and is set in the centre of town. All 241 rooms have TV, radio, telephone, mini bar, private WC/shower. In the public areas there are 2 restaurants, lounge bar, cocktail bar and night club.
After some inhospitable hotel experiences as a young itinerant music teacher, Knut Rydningen firmly believes that a hotel should be ‘home from home’ and it shows. In the sympathetic renovation and extension of the original farmhouse building; in the individual fabrics and decoration of the just 24 rooms; in the ‘Haldde’ restaurant where you can have crab to die for. And, naming the hotel after his daughters Vibeka and Camilla!
Through the forest and along the banks of the Altaelva river, mushing your own team of huskies. Hotel pick up, protective thermal clothing, cake and hot drink included. 21⁄2 hrs. Mon-Fri mid Dec-April (Evenings Mon-Thu).
Try your hand at the traditional Sami way of getting around in the snow. Easy and lots of fun. Hotel pickup, protective thermal clothing and snow shoes included. 3 hrs. Mid Dec – Apr. Daily
Snowmobile Safari across the Finnmark plateau with traditional Sami lunch included. Hotel pick up, protective thermal clothing and lunch included. 31⁄2 hrs. Twice daily (mornings and evenings) Dec – April.
Following a trail through forest, valleys and across vast snow covered plains with a visit to the Sorrisniva Igloo Hotel. Hotel pick up, protective thermal clothing included. 31⁄2hrs. 2 departures daily mid Jan-Apr. Evening Northern Lights trip or daytime including lunch.
Daily 1 Dec - 30 Apr
Rica Alta Hotel
Vica Alta Hotel
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