Overview:
The ultimate dog sled experience for the adventurous types! Together with our experienced guides you drive your own team of huskies for five days while camping in tents. Start will be in “Signaldalen” in Storfjord region, the destination will depend on the snow and weather conditions at the time. You have to be ready for long days, sleeping in tents, and hard work to join this trip. But you will make an experience for life while traversing a unique nature and can call yourself a musher when you finish. We will also pass through terrains with many ice covered lakes with prime ice fishing conditions, we will bring ice fishing equipment and hopefully catch our own dinner some days.
Expedition price is £2,965 per person based on availability and two people sharing accommodation throughout.
Single supplement upon request.
2022 Departure Dates: please enquire
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Tour Itinerary:
Day 1: Welcom to the Arctic, Meet the Team & Overnight in Sami Lavvu
Arrival in Tromso and transfer from the hotel to the wilderness center where our guides and 300 Alaskan huskies are waiting for you. We will give a full introduction to dog sledding and camping, and you will meet your four legged-coworkers who will be with you on the journey through Norwegian Lapland. The night will be on reindeer skins in a Sami tent.
Day 2: The Expedition Begins
After an early breakfast we pack the equipment, sledges, the dogs on to cars and drive towards Signaldalen (start and end point for the expedition) in Norway. The trip takes approximately 2 hours. Here you will prepare your husky team and start the expedition heading towards the border regions. Today’s stage is the most physically challenging so it’s very important that you take your part in the husky team. You need to push the sled up hills and encourage your four legged co-workers. When we arrive at today’s camp we take the harness off the dogs and give them food before we set up our own camp. This will be the routine every evening! You are now ready for your first night in the wilderness!
Day 3: Mountains of Lapland (Sweden or Finland)
After a good nights' sleep we have breakfast in the tent before the we take the camp down, pack the gear in our sledges, put harness on the dogs and go towards the border. We are now in an area with high mountains and the route will be decided depending on the weather, snow conditions and technical skill of the participants. This area is known as the Laplands and is home to many herds of reindeer. We cross the border and settle down in Sweden or Finland.
Day 4: Mountains & Lakes
Today’s terrain is high mountain driving and it´s very important that you remember to put on sunscreen! Even though the sun is not shinning it´s a big chance that you will get burned. We pass a lot of big lakes known for its fishing, and the camp will be by a fishing camp. A place with small surprises.
Day 5: Woodlands
This stage starts in the high mountains, but after a while we come into the woodlands and get challenging and technical dog sledding. We drive with very close to the Finnish border and will settle down either on the Swedish or Finnish side depending on the weather and snow conditions.
Day 6: Return to Civilisation
This day starts with many flat parts along a portion of lakes. We will have a lunch stop where Norway, Sweden and Finland meet before we start a tough climb before heading down a steep descent. Some nice kilometers and we are at the end of the expedition where the cars wait to bring us back to the civilization. We will arrive in Tromsø during the evening where you will check-in at your hotel for your last night in the arctic. The day to day program listed above is a regular expedition. Because of unpredictable weather and snow conditions we might have to change the route during the expedition. The expedition leader will decide this.
Day 7: Tromso at Leisure
Breakfast at your hotel and optional activities.
Day 8: Farewell Arctic Norway
Breakfast at your hotel and transfer to the airport for your return flight.
* The day to day program listed above is a regular expedition. Because of unpredictable weather and snow conditions we might have to change the route during the expedition. The expedition leader will decide this.
Package Includes:
- Return flights from London Gatwick on Norwegian Airlines (other UK airports upon request)
- 1 piece of check-in luggage per traveler (up to 20 kg)
- Private airport transfers
- 2 nights' accommodation at a centrally located 4* hotel in Tromso
- Breakfast at the hotel
- 1 nights' accommodation in a Sami Lavvu Tent in the wilderness camp
- 4 nights' accommodation in tents during the expedition
- 5 days' dog sled expedition
- English speaking, certified guide throughout the expedition
- Transport: Tromso - wilderness camp and return
- All equipment
- Expedition clothes
- All meals during the expedition
- 24-hour emergency service
- ATOL protection
- All taxes
*** Please bring: Thermal underwear, sunscreen, sunglasses and warm socks.
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