Aurora Borealis - A Window to Space - winter holiday (guaranteed)

Aurora Borealis - A Window to Space - holiday itinerary:

Day 1: Welcome in Murmansk city
Arrival in Murmansk airport. Since this very moment you get chance to see Northern Lights. Look at the sky from time to time to catch it! Meeting and transfer to the Ogni Murmanska hotel, check-in. The hotel is located on a rock above the city and far away from the city lights. Behind the hotel there is an interactive park where you can have fun as well as the hotel has an Aqua park. You can have dinner in a restaurant of the hotel.
If there is the good broadcasting for Northern Lights an English speaking guide with a mini bus comes to the hotel to collect you for “Aurora hunting”. Overnight in the hotel.

Day 2: Snowmobile safari and Snow village
Breakfast. At 09.00 transfer to Kirovsk city and check-in at a hotel upon arrival around 12pm. Lunch on your own. After Lunch ask a reception to call a taxi for you to come to the Snow Village (5 km).
At 14.00 take a snowmobile safari. After changing clothes and short introduction, start to drive to Khibiny mountains. We go snowmobiling via Maly Vudyavr valley and Kukisvumsk valley to the top point to see the mountain from a bird eye. Then we drive back to the Snow village. It is a big construction made of snow with ice sculptures and snow wall labyrinths. You can have fun sledging down from a snow hill on “a pancake” or on “a banana” behind a snowmobile. You can try your creativeness in snow carving. When you like to go back to Kirovsk ask reception to call a taxi for you.
If there is the good broadcasting for Northern Lights an English speaking guide with a mini bus comes to the hotel to collect you for “Aurora hunting”. Overnight in the hotel. (B)

Day 3: Excursion to Saami Settlement.
Breakfast. You can hike in Kirovsk city surrounded by majestic Khibiny mountains to see its severe beauty. Or visit the Mineralogical and Mining Museum (in the "Big Ben" building, free entrance!). Check-out.
At 11.30 transfer to Saami Settlement appeared in a place of traditional reindeer grazing areas. There are some traditional dwellings with floor covered by reindeer fur (Kuvaksa) standing at the place. Several beautiful reindeers are always in the settlement and they like to be stroked and fed by moss and bread. Also there are foxes, polar foxes and rabits. It will be offered to play some Saami traditional games and try your hand at throwing a lasso. You will have traditional Saami Lunch: fish soup, reindeer meat, berry pie and herb tea. The Saami will offer us to sledge behind reindeers and behind a snowmobile sitting on a big “banana”. Those who like may put on Saami clothes and make photos with reindeers. It is possible to buy reindeer fur, items made of reindeer horns, stones and wood, special northern souvenirs.
Then we proceed to Monchegorsk – the next city on Kola Peninsula. Check-in at hotel Laplandia upon arrival around 6-7 PM. Monchegorsk is a beautiful city in the middle of Kola. The park of the city has snow hills for sledging, a stadium with possibilities for skating on Weekends, or you can have fun in a Carting Center.
If there is the good broadcasting for Northern Lights an English speaking guide with a mini bus comes to the hotel to collect you for “Aurora hunting”. Overnight in the hotel. (B, L)

Day 4: Excursion to Siberian Husky farm
Breakfast and check-out. At 09.00 a mini bus comes to bring you to the Siberian Husky farm. A local guide with sledge pulled by a snowmobile will pick you up to reach the Husky farm 3 km in the forest. You can communicate with the charming and sweet dogs and Northern reindeers. Sledging via the winter forest behind reindeers and Husky dogs will leave you unforgottanable impressions. Later you will have lunch in traditional dwelling named CHUM (like wigwam) and listen stories about Northern nature and local traditions.
Around 13:00 you proceed to Murmansk city and check-in at the Arktika hotel upon arrival at 16:00. The hotel is located in the very center of the city. Dinner is recommended in the restaurant of the hotel.
If there is the good broadcasting for Northern Lights an English speaking guide with a mini bus comes to the hotel to collect you for “Aurora hunting”. Overnight in the hotel. (B, L)

Day 5: Sight-seeing tour in Murmansk city
Breakfast. At 09:00 a guide comes to the hotel to collect you for the city excursion with visiting places of interests, making panoramic photos and an excursion to the first nuclear icebreaker “Lenin”. Lunch in a restaurant. In the afternoon transfer to the airport (B, L)

Aurora Borealis - A Window to Space - holiday details

This Aurora Borealis safari can be extended with the following optionals:

• Trip to the Barents sea shore.
• Kirovsk area:
  • Excursion in Mineralogical Museum in Kirovsk.
  • Excursion in Museum of the North in Kirovsk
  • Excursion in Northern Botanical garden in Kirovsk
  • See link above for more info
• Snow-village near Kirovsk
  • Entrance ticket: RUB 600 per person
  • Taxi Kirovsk - Snow village: RUB 150 - 200 per car (one way)
  • “Banana” riding behind a snowmobile in Snow Village: EUR 2,-- pp per 5 - 7 min
  • snow carving with rental instruments and prepared snow cube: EUR 12, -- per cube
  • snow shoes rental cost: EUR 6,-- per day.
• Aurora Borealis Watching extra costs for:
  • Guide service per hour.
  • Car per hour.
  • Minibus per hour.
  • Bus per hour.
  Prices on request.