Self guided nordic skiing adventure
Itinerary
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Day 1 Journey and welcoming dinner
Transfer by bus or by car to Hossa (about 1 hour), at the gates of the park. Settle down in your log cottage or in your hotel room. First night, we greet you at the restaurant upon a welcoming dinner.
Accommodation: Hotel or Cottage
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Day 2 Nordic skiing in Hossa
From your hotel room or your cottage, you organize your own routes.
Discovering Hossa Park by cross-country skiing is one of the best choices: you can easily get to all the interest points of the park enjoying the national Finnish winter sport!
Here, nature is intact. The region is really wooded and presents some lovely hills.
Each night you will find the comfort of the hotel and you can relax in the sauna.Accommodation: Hotel or Cottage
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Day 3 Nordic skiing in Hossa
On request (on site), with additional fee:
Possibility to organize an itinerant trek, and sleep one night or more in trapper cabins, deep in the woods, with the running water and electricity.Accommodation: Hotel or Cottage
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Day 4 Nordic skiing in Hossa
On request (on site), with additional fee:
Other optional activities : snowmobiling, dogsledding, snowshoeing, hikes with dogs, ice fishing… On request, only on site and subject to availability.Accommodation: Hotel or Cottage
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Day 5 Nordic skiing in Hossa
With more than 160km of skiing slopes, Hossa is a great playground for all ski and nature lovers. Ski is probably the best way to discover the park in winter.
Accommodation: Hotel or Cottage
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Day 6 Nordic skiing in Hossa
On request (on site), with additional fee:
Why not try skijoering today? In Nordic skiing, attached to a husky dog sled or a Greenland dog by a lanyard and go explore the park in a trapper way.Accommodation: Hotel or Cottage
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Day 7 Nordic skiing in Hossa
Last day in Hossa! Why not go visiting our kennel with its 160 inhabitants? You could also spend the day in the park and enjoy a lunch at one of the many fireplace in the park.
Accommodation: Hotel or Cottage
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Day 8 Transfer
Breakfast and transfer to Kuusamo airport.
Period & budget
When to travel?
The best period for travelling is during the following months:
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
Notes
INCLUDED
- Airport transfers from/to Kuusamo airport (on Sundays)
- Accomodation in hotel or cottage
- Full board from D1 dinner to D8 breakfast
- Luggage transport
- The lending of a pair of boots against deep cold for the whole week
NOT INCLUDED
- Flights to get to Kuusamo
- Extra transfers for arrival in another aiport
- Children discount (contact us) [*] Your insurance (cancellation and repatrition): we do not offer insurance. We strongly advise to take out such insurance and bring your documents with you when travelling
OPTIONS
TO PAY ON SPOT
- Personal expenses
- Drinks
- Nordic skis rental
- Deposit for snowmobile (if you wish to practice): 1500 euros / snowmobile / person (credit card)
- Deposit for material and provided equipment: 50 euros for the boots, 50 euros for the overall, 50 euros for the sleeping bag
Practical info
Staff
Food
- A generous buffet breakfast will be served at the hotel restaurant
- For lunch, you will enjoy a picnic with wood-fire grilled food
- Dinners are served at the hotel restaurant
Accommodation
- The « Classical » cottage, with an only room with living room/kitchen, twin or bunked beds, private bathroom and sauna
- The « Premium » cottage, with a separated room with double bed, living room, kitchen, private bathroom and sauna
Transportation
Vital equipment
- High protection sunglasses
- Mask
- Personal medicine kit
- Sun-cream (from the end of February)
- Vaseline or waterfree mosturising cream
- A headlamp
- A thermos, in order to always have some hot beverage with you while practicing the activities. For lunch, the guide will provide you with hot beverages.
- Boots (type SOREL) are issued on arrival and are yours throughout the week
- For snowmobile safaris : overalls and helmet
- For dogsledge safaris : winter jacket for extreme cold and leather mittens
- For each bivouac night spent in a trapper cabin: sleeping bag
- For snowmobile safaris : overalls and helmet
- For dogsledge safaris : winter jacket for extreme cold and leather mittens
- For each bivouac night spent in a trapper cabin: sleeping bag
Helpful equipment
- Waterproof shoes, winter hiking shoes, sports shoes or snow boots (for evening wear)
- Woolen socks
- Warm winter jacket (ski jacket or down jacket
- Ski trousers or ski overalls
- Warm pull-overs or fleece jackets
- Warm baselayer thermals : very important. Thin technical fibers as Carline or Polartec are extremely efficient.
- Expedition waterproof mitten/gloves and fitted silk gloves
- Woolen hat
- Hool, Balaclava
- Scarf
- Swimming suit (sauna)
- Microfiber towel (sauna)
- A sleeping bag linr for each overnight in trapper cabin (it goes into the sleeping bag that we lend you, for hygienic reasons)
- Your driving licence (compulsory when you drive a snowmobile)
- A credit card : we make a copy of it that is used as a deposit for all the equipment provided