Excursión de un día al Parque Nacional Pyhä-Luosto y Mina de Amatista - Rovaniemi

It is not your typical mine experience … nonetheless it was a very interesting excursion… it was informative and fun to dig for amethysts. Utsi is an excellent guide .. prompt, friendly,and very knowledgeable… he showed us a lot of things along the way and explained a lot about life in the Lapland.

Very bad experience with this company with which we had booked 3 activities in advance on the internet. The first (visit to an amethyst mine) was simply canceled 2 hours before and we discovered it while reading our emails at breakfast while waiting for the pick. No explanation and no contact. When we contacted the agency by telephone, then at their office, the manager, who is a dishonest person, simply told us that the guide was sick and that he could not do anything for us (which seems to be repeated very often in reading the comments). When we insisted on knowing if we were the only customers disappointed with the management of this situation, he kindly made us understand that we were the only customers scheduled that day and that the activity was not profitable for him. He did not apologize but offered a full refund which was the least he could do.

We had a great trip to the Amethyst Mine. Our guide, Irina was amazing, very friendly and reliable. After the visit at the mine we had a nice barbecue at one of the typical finnish lavvu in front of a beautiful lake. Would highly recommend :)

Great experience. Tour guide was so nice, and the staff at the mine was very knowledgeable and helpful.

Lots of information, great service all round, beautiful places shown, great atmosphere despite the bad weather!

We had a wet day. So didn't really do any walks. The mine was exactly as expected. Make sure to grab a pulla and coffee from the Cafe. The lunch provided was very good. And our guide had great stories and very willing to take group photos. They even provided chicken nuggets for the picky eaters.

With our grandchildren , their parents and other grandparents we went 120 km north of Rovaniemi to be tempted by the visit of the amethyst mine in northern Finland . It should be noted without further delay that the main interest of this day is the total change of scenery that it gives you...first the road lined with large snow-covered fir trees to a snow-cleared parking lot where you will be waiting for the driver of a tracked machine towing a second vehicle allowing a good dozen people to climb through splendid snowy landscapes to a first warm site where you can buy local souvenirs and eat with a hot drink if you wish. Then the tracked vehicle leaves for the mine even further. In the middle of a frozen and white setting, we take you to a mine museum where your guide explains the history of the mine exclusively in English (not a single word of French when we were all French). You can also see and touch stones extracted from the ground. Then we take you to the entrance of the mine where you descend several dozen wooden steps. Arrived in a covered room we give you a metal scraper of about twenty cm... and we tell you to scrape the stony floor to hope to find something...for about fifteen minutes...needless to say that you find only very small things ' to eight people we collected less than a dozen shards of amethysts of a length of a few millimeters! If, fortunately, you find a large stone, you have to declare it and pay it to take it with you in addition to the entrance price... Then you go up to be taken to the shop where you are offered amethysts for money. Finally we'll take you back to the original parking lot. In total the children are delighted to play explorers and you are happy for that. Only the memory of the tracked ride in a beautiful snowy setting will remain. .

We had a very nice day with our guide with laughs and interesting stories. The entry time to the mine was in the afternoon, so we had plenty of time to enjoy the surrounding nature and make a campfire for our lunch break. In the mine we could dig for our own stones and take several ones home.

Extraordinary for the frame especially The explanations and the experience in the mine are a plus but the snowy landscape is the greatest interest of this outing (for us in snowmobile but possible in knuckles) If you come out of the mine when the sun starts to set (for us around 4pm) prepare for a panorama is FANTASTIC

It's been an interesting trip! The tour guide was very nice and professional and would go to the place where we ate early to help us prepare food when there were few people. Barbecue technology is also good, we will be with you when digging and will give us advice.