Welcome to the Vuollerim area at the Arctic Circle
This package is a brimful program for everyone who would like to know more about genuin lappish everyday life and community based tourism in Vuollerim. We will share knowledge, experience and examples of long-term sustainable local initiatives that have strengthened the local development in this rural area. Knowing that you can do the same in your area. The basic idea is to share how people actively make use of local resources,
skills and knowledge. Here you will not meet a resort, but a welcoming village!
You are invited to join the villagers for a house jumping dinner into their homes. Take part of storytelling from the forest Sami people and genuine villagers and many other local activities. An opportunity to live an Arctic lifestyle one person at a time through local stories, experiences and adventures.
We have put together a custom package showcasing the best activities of the area. Here at Lapland Vuollerim, we provide an experience you’ll never forget by sharing this unexplored pearls in Swedish Lapland.
Each season holds its special light to make this region breathtakingly beautiful. The intense Blue Light occurs for 6 to 7 weeks in December and January when the sun doesn’t cross the Arctic Circle’s horizon. In the summer it is the opposite – the midnight sun season, all so colorful! The snow, the stars, the moon, the northern light, together with the blue light, the midnightsun create an ethereal scenery; like “walking on a theatre scene”. This is the right time to take a break and absorb the magical beauty of nature at its best.
This is an amazing area!
WINTER – Welcome home to Lapland
This is the package for you who look for a genuine experience that will stay in your heart. Here you will be submerged in a winter of white and hearts of gold as the festive seasons come to the last great European wilderness-Swedish Lapland. You will get a good taste of the local culture, meeting and making friends with local people. You are invited to join the villagers for a house jumping dinner into their homes. Take part of storytelling from the forest Sami people and genuine villagers. Try out riding the traditional “spark”, making Ice Lanterns and many other local activities.
Day 1
Arrival and check in at hotel Vuollerim Gästgiveriet
Dinner at the hotel
Northern Lights searching hiking tour
Day 2
Breakfast
Ice fishing tour and transport with snow mobile
Lunch outdoors
Relax or optional activity like snowboard or photo workshop. Additional fee.
House jumping dinner
Day 3
Breakfast
Visit a forest Sámi reindeer herd. Experience the everyday life with the forest Sámi people and reindeers. Lunch outdoors
Relax or pick an optional activity like snowboarding or photo workshop. Additional fee.
Dinner at hotel
Northern Lights searching hiking tour or kick sledge
Day 4
Breakfast
Making ice lanterns
Making traditional soft bread over open fire.
Local history tour on the kick sledge or optional activity like skiing behind a horse.
Storytelling and dinner in the tepee
Day 5
Cross the Arctic Circle tour with certificate.
Optional visit Attje Sámi Museum. Additional fee.
Relax or pick an optional activity like snowboarding or cross country skiing. Additional fee.
Sleepover in the wilderness with guide. Snowmobile transfer, wooden fire cabin.
Day 6
Sauna and hot shower.
Breakfast
Transfer to airport
Optional services NOT included in the price: Optional activities
Optional, add more nights and visit Ice Hotel and Treehotel. Day tours or overnight sleep.
Participant minimum: 4
Participant maximum: 16
Duration in days: 5 nights 6 days
Season: 5.11.14-15.04.15
Prices
Net Rate 23 000 SEK per person. Children up to 12 years half the price.
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SUMMER Wildlife experience at the Arctic Circle life style in the Land of Midnight Sun.
Experience Lappish Sami forest safari with a local guide and a cozy evening in the tepee, where the traditional smoked reindeer meat “suovas” is fried over the fire while the locals share stories from the past. Walk the ancient path along the Mirror Pond. Feel the history of 6000 years old meeting places, where languages, cultures and rivers meet, cross the Arctic Circle and visit a world unique Ajtte Mountain and Sami Museum in Jokkmokk.
Swim in Mirror Pond or child friendly Sandtjärn, ride on gentle horses in the land of midnight sun, go fishing in the middle of nowhere at a lake by your own, or enjoy the simple and refreshing stillness of 18th century farm beside the Big Luleå River. Take a bath in the wood-fired sauna and a midnight swim in the river.
Day 1
Transfer from airport or train station
Arrival and check in at Hotel Vuollerim Gästgiveriet
Local tour and history.
Dinner at the hotel
Day 2
Breakfast
Forest safari with local guide and lunch outdoors
Relax or optional activity for additional fee. Example horse back riding in the midnight sun.
Storytelling and dinner in a tepee
Midnight Sun Tour
Day 3
Breakfast
Relax or optional activity, for example waffles at the Homestead
Arctic Circle Tour with certificate
Optional Ajtte Sami Museum
River swim or relaxing at the hotel
Dinner at the hotel
Bear Safari by car
Day 4
Breakfast
Fishing tour in the wilderness with guide and lunch outdoors.
Relax or optional activity. Additional fee.
House jumping dinner together with villagers in three different homes
Day 5
Breakfast
Relax or optional activity. Add for a fee. For example photo workshop.
Over sleep in the wilderness together with a guide
Wilderness knowledge and Lappish every day life
Wooden fire sauna
Midnight swim in the river
Dinner in the wilderness
Day 6
Back to village
Breakfast
Transfer to airport or train station
Participant minimum:2
Participant maximum:16
Minimum age: No
Duration in days: 5 nights and 6 days.
Season: 15.05.15–15.10.15
Prices
Net Rates :
21 000 SEK per person
Children up to 12 year half price.
Package to fill with optional activities add for a fee.
Transfers included in the price: Yes
Driving license needed: No
Equipment included in the price: Yes.
Meals included in the price: Breakfast and dinners
Overnights included in the price: Yes. Double occupancy with toilet.
Other services included in the price: Yes. Fishing equipment.
Customers own equipment needed: Good shoes, casual clothing.
Airport
Lulea Airport, just 1 hour flying time from Stockholm Arlanda Airport.
Transfers
Airport: Luleå airport
Distance to Airport: 130 km
Train station: Murjek
Distance to Train station: 14 km
Contacts
Lapland Vuollerim Welcomes You
General Contact Address, Phone, e-Mail:
info@laplandvuollerim.se, Box 30, S-960 30 Vuollerim, Sweden. +46 976 100 30
Contact person:
Eva-Lena Skalstad
evalena@laplandvuollerim.se, +46 70 958 0558
Lapland Vuollerim Welcomes You providing genuine ‘everyday life’ experiences. Touching the Arctic Circle you find Vuollerim in the exotic remoteness of Swedish Lapland. Lapland Vuollerim Welcomes You is a small scale eco tourist business own by Villagers. We reinvest 100% into the local economy and resources . Lapland Vuollerim Welcomes You are certified with “Natures Best” and a member of The Ecotourism Society of Sweden.
Nominations:
“Tourism for Tomorrow Innovation Award 2014”
“World Responsible Tourism Awards 2013”
“Best Outdoor Product 2012” – Dry Flies In Forest Sami Country
“Best Outdoor Product 2011” – Trophy Char
“Top 10 of Swedens best winter activities for families, 2011”
“Best Outdoor Product 2010” – Horseback riding in the Midnight sun.