Bear and Arctic Animals 2 Day Trip from Rovaniemi
Description
This is the ultimate trip for all the animal-lovers! Experience Lapland and its wildlife with your guide. This 2-day tour includes an authentic reindeer farm visit, a wildlife park tour, Polar dog encounter and a bear-watching overnight in a wilderness cabin! You will have the chance to meet arctic animals in their natural surrounding. Our guides will share their knowledge and expertise on arctic wildflife. Spending the night in the middle of a national park surrounded by bears in the wilderness is one in a lifetime experience. Spending the night in the middle of a national park and bear watching is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Quiet, calm, a professional bear-watcher will explain you more about the lives of the bears, while you will be waiting for the massive animals to approach the cabin. The bears should come, as dusk colours start covering the Autumn sky. They would be looking for food in the surrounding bogs, offering their large furry figures to your eyes and cameras.
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Pickup Locations & Times
We will confirm your pick up time at least 3 days before departure.
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Important Information
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(3)
Our guide, Justine, was fantastic and answered all our questions we had about Finland (history, traditions, culture, animals, saunas, etc.) whilst driving us to all the locations. Starting with an excellent visit to a Reindeer farm (thank you Juho for sharing your experience as a reindeer farmer) where we got to feed them. Then a stop for a fire cooked lunch and tips on lighting/cooking. Next visit was to a dog sleigh team (Greenland Polar Dogs) and their passionate owners. Included cuddling puppies. Finishing the day in a bear hide where we saw 2 bears, both splashing in the water and eating the fish provided by the guides. We also watched some beautiful white tailed eagles swooping down and back into the trees. We had a great night's sleep in the hut (poor Justine had to listen to us both snoring all night!). In the morning we had a dip in a beautiful lake to clean ourselves (amazing!). We got to the wildlife park early enough to see a Polar Bear; Moose; Wolves; a Wolverine; Boar; Owls; Arctic Fox; and more. Nordic Odyssey were brilliant in their communications prior to and during the trip.
This was an amazing experience! We were able to see 5 bears, including a mom with two young cubs, that were super cute!!! The whole trip was a great experience since we stopped at a reindeer farm and a dog (Greenland dogs) farm, and had a chance to hear at length what it takes to breed and train these animals. The bear watching experience is very safe, since you are inside a very well-built cabin and have great viewing windows. The bears come very close. The guides were very knowledgeable and shared a lot of info on bears and Finland in general.
An amazing trip visiting carefully selected locations which gave us a truely memorable experience. Both the Reindeer and Greenland dog owners clearly love and care greatly for their animals. The overnight bear hide/cabin experience was magical with close views of Bears feeding and swimming, along with White tailed eagles swooping about too. Thank you so much to Martin and Meredith for your knowledge, care and organisation not to mention all the driving!
