Saariselkä snow fun - off slope winter activities
Outdoor Ice Rink: 1 Indoor Ice Rink: 0 Balloon Flights: 0
Prepared Winter Walks: 10 Snowshoeing: 1 Hang Gliding : 0
Snow mobile Rental: 10 Toboggan Run Length: 1.2km Paragliding schools: 0
Saariselkä non skiing facilities also include Dancing, Winter Hiking, Lappish Nights, Ski Touring, Arctic Ocean, Santa Land, Northern Lights, Reindeer Safari, Gold Digging, Gold Panning, Igloo Village.
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Sign up to a Husky safari and you might be able to be picked up directly from your accommodation to the Husky and Co farm. You’ll be offered some warm overalls and shoes for the ride and a trek could last up to 4 – 5 hours. One the way round they like to stop off and cook you a spot of lunch on an open fire. It is a great way to experience the landscape and let’s face it… Husky’s are cute. Reindeer safaris run from the reindeer farm where you will be transported to after meeting at the central office. You’ll get so see some traditional costume and might even have a go at steering the reindeer yourself. The tour lasts a couple of hours and there might be the option to have lunch at the farm.
Following a pickup in Rovaniemi centre (around 3 hours’ drive from Saariselkä), Joulukka will transport you into the wilderness to find Santa’s woodland hideaway. Visitors have the option of a great range of programs, which include meeting the man himself, sneaking a peek at mission control, and becoming a ‘Guardian of Lapland’.
Saariselka’s around 3 hours from Rovaniemi’s Santa Park. Other than meeting Santa himself, visitors can cook up a treat in the gingerbread kitchen, attend Elf School and visit the world’s only below-ground Arctic Circle crossing. The park also has an ice gallery, sleigh ride, giant snow globe and Angry Birds activity area.
Tarvantie 1 96930 Rovaniemi Finland
The Angry Birds Park offers a bunch of fun activities throughout the year and they are aimed at all ages. You’ve got all sorts of games going on around the indoor park from virtual games to an adventure track. There is also a shop as well as a resting area for parents to relax and keep an eye on the younger ones. The tower and climbing structures are designed to get the whole family involved so worth a visit if you’re all together this year.
Saariseläntie 7 99830 Inari Finland
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300km from Saariselka, and hidden in woodland beside the lake Sieri is the Metsäkyly sauna. There’s a range of health programs on offer here – from sauna, Jacuzzi and a dip in the ice pool, to beauty treatments, forest trails and enjoying an indulgent meal.
Metsäkyly Forest Retreat Sierijärvi, Rovaniemi Finland
Arktikum is located in Rovaniemi – about 3 hours’ by road from Saariselkä. Visitors eager to discover Lapland’s past will love the cultural and natural history exhibits, meanwhile there’s plenty to learn about arctic ecology and climate change in Arktikum’s science centre.
Pohjoisranta 4 96200 Rovaniemi Finland
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The Tankavaara Gold Village makes a wonderfully unique activity when in Finland for your holiday. 30km south of Saariselka on the E75 road the village offers the gold mining experience. You will be able to pan for actual gold deposits with some direction and you are allowed to keep what you find. In the café you can actually pay with what you find as they accept real gold! The international gold museum is worth a wonder round as well as over to the goldsmith workshop. They sometimes have a particular even going on given the time of year which is also worth checking out. The Gold Panning Championships, for example, might be something you never expected to find yourself at.
Tankavaarantie 11 99695 Sodankylä Finland