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Biking tour on Kola Peninsula Taiga
The centre of Kola Peninsula
Biking tour on Kola Peninsula Taiga
with guide!
Biking tour on Kola Peninsula Taiga
with luggage transport
Biking tour on Kola Peninsula Taiga
including prepared meals
Biking tour on Kola Peninsula Taiga
including accommodations
Saami Sot House (Vezha)
Biking tour on Kola Peninsula Taiga
Tast pure nature on Kola Peninsula
Mountain bike tour in Russian Lapland
We invite you to go on a bicycle journey through polar forests and beautiful hills to get acquainted with the interesting sight of the Kola Peninsula. Having visited small villages you will admire a picturesque nature of the Kola Peninsula.
The cycling days you have to go in the pedals for climbing small hills, but
you can also enjoy the downhill parts. Sometimes you have to cross shallow waters and stony parts.
You can bring your own bicycle or you can rent mountain bikes from us. The bicycle has to be an all-terrain or
hydride type with at least 21 gears. During the tour your luggage will be transported by 4x4 vehicle.
The overnights will be in our wooden house (lumberjack guesthouse) and our traditional Lappish Sot house (Vezha).
With groups a guide is cycling with the group. Individuals bike alone and your guide (who serve the luggage transport)
will wait on several points during the route and supply you with drinks, food and all necessary things.
We can meet you at any airport or railway station in Russia as well as in Finland or Norway. By your request we help you to choose the best and suitable way to come to us.
Mountain bike tour in Russian Lapland itinerary:
Day 1: Arrival in lumberjack guesthouse "Yolki-Palki" located in a small village close to Kirovsk city. Dinner, sauna. Overnight in two person rooms.
Day 2: After breakfast we start our cycling route going via a gravel road. We cycle through dense forests, cross very small left villages and pass many lakes and rivers with beautiful views. The lunch is on the route. After 48 km we reach an old small village where our traditional Lappish Sot house (Vezha) is located. We enjoy the banya (Russian sauna) and taste the freshest fish and reindeer"s or elk"s meat fried on charcoals in Vehza. Overnight in Vezha on reindeer fur. Cycling distance: 48 km unpaved road.
Day 3: After breakfast we start our cycling route to a forest lake through the picturesque forest landscape. Lunch on the lake shore. Everybody can try luck in fishing. In the evening we come back. Dinner, sauna. Overnight in Vezha. Cycling distance: 30 km unpaved road.
Day 4: After breakfast we cycle back to base "Yolki-Palki". Lunch on the way. Dinner and sauna upon arrival. Overnight in the base. Cycling distance: 48 km unpaved road.
Day 5: Breakfast. Today our way is to a left area where the rest of a Stalinist camp is located. The old forest road is going trough picturesque landscape, through flower glades on places of ex-villages. We will see ruins of old railway built by camp prisoners, rest of houses and fences of barbed wire. Lunch on a way. Coming back in evening. Dinner, overnight. Cycling distance: 40 km unpaved road.
Day 6: Breakfast. We are waited by the highest mountains of Kola. These are Khibiny Mountains. After 35 km of asphalt we take a 25 km mountain road. We will see impressionable rocks, crystal waterfall and mystic mountain lake; we even can partly drive through its water! Lunch on the lake shore. Coming back by our Army bus. Dinner, sauna, overnight.
Cycling distance: 60 km (asphalt: 35 km and unpaved road: 25 km)
Possibility for go-setters to cycle back! (Cycling distance: asphalt: 70 km and unpaved road: 50 km).
Day 7: Breakfast. Departure.
Mountain bike tour in Russian Lapland details
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| Level: | The participant must have experience in long distances biking in hilly and stony areas and must have a good condition. Knowledge about repairing bicycle on the route is preferable. |
| Group size: | 2-11 persons (international participation possible) |
| Duration: | 6 days |
| Dates: | On request from 15th of June to 15th of September. |
| Price: | Prices on request. |
| Price includes: | Accommodation, mentioned meals, transfer by off-road vehicle from/to Kandalaksha city, luggage transport, experienced local guide and English interpreter, visa invitation, medical rescue insurance including helicopter evacuation in emergency case. |
| Documents: | 护照必须在退货日期后至少6个月内有效。 需要签证。 我们处理的旅游邀请。中国公民不需要通过我们的旅游公司旅行的俄罗斯签证。 |
| Insurance: | 参与者必须拥有至少涵盖俄罗斯联邦欧洲部分的医疗保险。 |
This mountain bike tour in Russian Lapland can be extended with the following optionals:
- ATB Bikes: EUR 15,-- per day
- Murmansk:
- Guided excursions in Murmansk.
- Tickets for museums and museum excursions cost between RUB 25,-- and RUB 400,-- per person.
- Entrance ticket to Atomic Icebreaker to join an excursion in Russian language: RUR 150 pp. Individual excursion to Atomic Icebreaker with a lecture in English language can be arranged.
- Trip to Saami settlement.
- Trip to the Barents sea shore.
- Trip to Husky Farm.
- Trip to Lovozero village: price depends on group size
- Rent a car from Kola Travel and get the best rate, quality and service!
Read more >> >> Rent-a-car - Trip to Lovozero village; Capital of the Saami.
- See link above for more info.
- Train/plane/bus tickets in or outside Russian Federation.
- Transfers from/to KuusamoIvalo/Rovaniemi and Kirkenes airports.
Biking tour specifications / statistics
| Total length: | 230 km | Largest daily cycling distance: | 45 km |
| Asphalt roads: | 35 km | Average daily cycling distance: | 230 km |
| Unpaved roads: | 195 km | Lowest point of the route: | 170 meter |
| Smallest daily cycling distance: | 30 km | Highest point of the route: | 500 meter |
| Amount of active cycling days: | 5 days |
Cycling/biking tours overview
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Biking Kola Peninsula Taiga
Guided biking tour from the centre of Kola Peninsula (Kirovsk) through wilderness to the White Sea. 7 days tour with luggage transport.
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Biking along the White Sea
Guided biking tour from Kandalaksha city to Varzuga village along the White Sea. The south part of Kola Peninsula. 6 days tour with luggage transport.
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Cycling in Northwest Russia
Individual cycling tour from St-Petersburg to Murmansk according our roadbook and with background support. 13+ days tour. No luggage transport.
Your trusted travel companion in Northwest Russia for:
- Polar adventures in Karelia and Kola Peninsula.
- City trips to Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Novgorod, Petrozavodsk and Murmansk regions.
- Accommodations, activities and excursions.
Everything in one hand!
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