Northern Lights · Tour
Lapland Night: Finnish Sauna, Ice Swimming, Dinner and Northern Lights
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RovaniemiThree Finnish things in one evening: a sauna, a cold plunge, and a Lappish dinner in a wooden cottage well outside the city. The aurora hunt runs alongside all of it. How you use the sauna is your business. The Nordic method is 10 to 15 minutes in the heat and then straight into ice cold water, or into a pile of snow if the lake is not an option. The cold after the heat raises blood flow, releases pressure and pushes endorphins up, which is why people who try it once keep doing it. Afterwards the group returns to the cottage for a blazed salmon dinner by the fireplace. The cooking method is worth watching: the fish goes on a board beside an open fire rather than in a pan.
What's included
- Towels, slippers for the sauna
- Dinner cooked on the open fire (smoked salmon)
- Hotel pickup & drop off
- English speaking guide
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- Northern Lights - if lucky (end of October - middle of March. 5pm/EVENING DEPARTURES ONLY!)
- Traditional Finnish wood burned sauna
- Ice swimming / arctic lake swimming
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Koskikatu 12, Rovaniemi
Outside.
Winter
Sauna bathing is not a seasonal activity in Finland. Winter or summer, midnight or evening, it happens. The habit runs so deep in Finnish culture that no set of difficult circumstances has managed to interrupt it, and it passes from one generation to the next without anyone deciding to keep it. What the sauna does is raise the body temperature throughout, close to a fever. That heat, the quiet view, and the lake air breathed afterwards produce the effect people come back for. The best window for the northern lights runs from the end of October to the middle of March. You need clear sky, a properly black night and some luck, which is why this runs as an evening departure only. The sauna itself sits on an Arctic lake.
Koskikatu 12, Rovaniemi
Not included
- Gratitude (optional)
- Swimming suit
Good to know
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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- Children younger then 10 y.o. are not accepted on the tour
- Please bring swimming suit
- Northern Lights are a natural occurrence and we are unable to guarantee activity, vibrancy or colour on the evening of the tour.
- Northern lights can only be seen in end of October - middle of March, 5pm departure only
- Nordic Adventures reserves the right to make alterations to the programs, duration or form of transportation without prior warning. This is also applied to changes in programs due to weather conditions.
- Up to 14 travelers per booking.
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Guiding available in: en.
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