A smoke sauna
For sure anyone choosing cabin accommodation has their own private sauna and hotel guests are enabled to use a sauna within the building. Why therefore purchase an excursion to a sauna you may well ask? It’s really quite simple. This is the real sauna experience, dating from the very origins of the Finnish people. It has spawned it’s very own fan club, the International Smoke Sauna Club and is considered the purest style of sauna because it is disinfected by smoke during the heating. It’s true origins were as a place to give birth or even a church but the pleasure is so profound and different that it should be considered another life style experience. Here too in our setting you may enjoy the use of the bath whisk made from fresh birch twigs with leaves, and naturally jump into the adjacent lake. As they say: “don’t leave Lapland without trying it !!”.
Price: Adult £55. Tour Code SMO1. (Operates on Friday) |
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There’s gold in them thar hills
An opportunity to enjoy a day excursion from Luosto to the site where many International and National gold panning championships have been undertaken. The gold mine is located at Silver Creek which despite it’s name is where you’ll find gold.
Within our tour cost each participant will be provided with the necessary equipment and training to practise panning and is permitted to keep any gold or local gems such as Garnet or Jasper that they find. Practically everyone will be successful in their quest. Lunch is taken in a very traditional restaurant and a visit to the Mining Museum is included featuring one of the best collections of minerals and gemstones in Finland together with documents tools and other equipments of the early gold prospectors.
Price: Adult £96. Child £75. Tour Code GOL1. (Operates on Thursday) |
At home with the huskies
A tour to the husky farm to meet these friendly but hard working sled dogs with perhaps the chance to see some puppies. Our husky man will invite you for coffee and buns whilst he regales you with stories of their origins and lives here in Lapland.
Price: Adult £26. Child £20. Tour Code HWH1. (Operates on Saturday) |
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Visit the reindeer farm
Join us on a visit to the local reindeer farm to enjoy coffee and buns with the reindeer herder. Excellent photographic opportunities and the chance to learn more about these amazing animals.
Price: Adult £26. Child £20. Tour Code REI1. (Operates on Saturday) |
Family Nature Trail
Join our guide for a ramble around Luosto to view the nature and local wildlife. Your guide will show you the various fauna and flora and depending on the time of year you may be able to collect berries for your dessert and see some enormous ant hills (some almost 2 metres high) alive with industrious workers.
Price: Adult £15. Child £10. Tour Code FAM1. (Operates onTuesday/Thursday/Saturday) |
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Nordic walk to Luosto Fell
Suitable for everyone this is an evening walk with stick poles (similar to ski poles) which help to provide balance to the top of Luosto hill. Close to the weather observatory is a small cabin in which coffee, tea and buns will be served whilst admiring the outstanding view.
Price: Adult £30. Child £25. Tour Code NOR1. (Operates on Wednesday/Friday) |
