arctic adventures swedish lapland - Nordic Experience

ARCTIC ADVENTURES NORWEGIAN LAPLANDOUR NORWAY EXPERIENCEA magical land of tranquil shimmering fjords, of sweepingpine and spruce forests and towering mountains reachingup across the Arctic Circle into Lapland, where its oncenomadic Sami people live a life, and in a world, apart.Further North still, at the apex of their ancestral home, isNordkapp, the most Northerly point in Europe where thejaw-dropping Northern Lights dance across the nightsky.(It was a Norwegian, Kristian Birkeland, who first gavethe world a scientific explanation of them fromobservations he made in the Kafjord near Tromso).As the Aurora lights appear in the night sky, as ifescaping from a genie’s bottle, Norwegian Laplandbecomes an adventure playground cloaked in glistening,crystal snow with trails for husky mushing, snowmobilingand reindeer safariing particularly in the tundra aroundAlta and Karasjok.December sees the building of the Sorrisniva IglooHotel and the Kirkenes Snow Hotel for a 'once in alifetime' experience of sleeping in a hotel that literallymelts away in spring.Joanne Lumley created considerable excitementsearching for the Northern Lights in a programme madefor the BBC travelling to many of the places we featureand our ‘Northern Lights at the Top of the World’follows much of her journey.HAMMERFESTTROMSOALTAGAMVIKNORDKAPPTANAFJORDENMEHAMN BERLEVÅGKJØLLEFJORDHONNINGSVAGBATSFJORDVARDOPORS ANGENFINNMARKPLATEAUNORWEGIANLAPLANDFINNISHLAPLANDIf you can’t find exactly the NorwegianLapland adventure you’re looking for letus use our experience to design anitinerary tailored specifically to yourrequirements.VARANGERFJORDENKIRKENESNORWAYOSLORUSSIA16 Nordic Experience