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Saariselkä, located in Northern Lapland, is a versatile tourist centre and a lively village offering a wide variety of services. The Urho Kekkonen National Park extends all the way from the village to Koilliskairas where locals, as well as our visitors, explore the park's unforgettable nature.

Here are some examples of our wide selections..

FISHING TRIP AT  WILDERNESS LAKE
This trip takes you to the genuine wilderness of Lapland. We start at hotel 10.00 and drive to the small wilderness lake Salmijärvi by Hammastunturi wilderness area. This small wilderness lake has so clear water that you can drink it and there you’ll spend the next few hours with your guide trying your luck in fishing by the lake, which is bounded with arctic trouts, graylings and pike perchs. At the campsite your guide has prepared your lunch by open fire -  grilled salmon with creamy onion potatoes and wild mushroom sauce. After the lunch we return back to Saariselkä.
Duration of the trip 4  hours.

GOLD PANNING
Meet your guide at the hotel reception and head to the historical gold prospector areas,
where even today men work on their claims. You’ll learn the methods of gold digging and panning
and if you are lucky you’ll finish with gold nuggets shining in your pan!
We are invited to have tasty Lappish coffee by open fire and what ever you want to learn about
gold and jemstones you can now learn from these experts. Duration of the trip approx. 3 – 4 hours

ENDURO BIKE SAFARI
We meet at the safari club, change clothing into driving gear.
After a short driving school we head behind the guide all driving our own 
4 stroke KTM enduro bikes to the fells. Our route goes over the treeless fells, trough unhabited forests.
We stop for a coffee by open fire at a cottage behind the fells. Duration of the trip approx. 2,5-3 hours

MUSEUM TRIP TO INARI
Pick up from your hotel and we head with a small bus to Ivalo and Inari.
The road goes by the shores of beautiful Inari Lake to small lappish village Inari.
In Inari we visit the new Sami Museum and the Northern Lapland Visitor Centre with a unique cultural and ecological
exhibitions telling about life’s adaption to extreme northern conditions and of the unity of man and nature.
Visit also in Inari the Lappish Church by the lake and possibility to do shopping in various handicraft shops.
Duration of the trip approximately  4-5  hours

BOAT TRIP ON LEMMENJOKI   RIVER
Departure from Saariselkä at 8.30. a.m. and we drive via Ivalo and Inari to Lemmenjoki, a distance of 120 km.
The road  itself is beautiful, partly along the famous Inari lake.In small Lappish village Njurgalahti we board long traditional
river boats for the trip on river Lemmenjoki down to Ravadas falls with approximately 45 minutes drive on an amazingly beautiful wilderness
river in National Park of Lemmenjoki. At Ravadas water falls we taste the clean and clear water and then take a
1,5 km hiking tour to a wilderness hut by the river. We’ll take the boat drive back to Nujrgalahti 
and enjoy  lunch and then and return to Saariselkä by coach.  Free time on the way in Inari for shopping etc.
Duration of the trip approx. 6-7 hours
Information & bookings: 
Lapland Leisure Tours: info@laplandleisuretours.com

...And much more activities available, please ask more..