Northern Lights at 69 Parallel

Route

• Day 1 — Arrival, a city excursion

  Arrival in Murmansk airport.

  Meeting and transfer to Meridian hotel**** in the city center. 

  Lunch is recommended in a restaurant of the hotel. 

  Meeting a guide at 3pm for a city excursion, including a visit to the first nuclear-powered icebreaker "Lenin". 

  Return to the hotel at 6pm. Dinner in a reccommended restaurants. Overnight. 

  Provided the weather forecast is favorable, a guide collects you from the hotel for “Aurora hunting” (Optional).

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• Day 2 — Tthe Arctic Ocean, Teriberka

  Breakfast. 

  At 09.00, a guide collects you from the hotel for a trip to the Arctic Ocean. You have to drive along high plateaus, open to all winds, in order to reach the shores of the Barents Sea. 

  You will go to the winter fjords of the Arctic Ocean, sitting on sleighs pulled by snowmobiles. 

  You will see the "Beach of Dragon Eggs", covered with many huge round stones, a frozen waterfall and cannons of the coastal battery left after the Second World War. 

  Lunch in a restaurant on the seaside upon coming back to Teriberka. 

  After lunch, you will have a sightseeing tour in the village, visiting the cemetery of ships, the filming locations of the famous film "Leviathan". 

  Return to Murmansk in the evening. Overnight at the hotel. 

  Provided the weather forecast is favorable, a guide collects you from the hotel for “Aurora hunting” (Optional).

  Breakfast and lunch are included today.

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• Day 3 — The Husky Park

  Breakfast and check-out. 

  At 09.30, transfer to the Husky Park. An English speaking guide will meet you there. 

  You will learn the wonderful story of the race “Siberian Husky”, can communicate with the charming and sweet dogs as well as to see reindeers. 

  You will visit a replica of Saami village, get acquainted with the way of life of the Saami people, as it was more than a century ago. 

  Then you will have a dog sledding ride through the forest and frozen lakes. 

  After lunch of traditional Saami dishes (creamy fish soup, reindeer meat or fish, berry pie), you are brought back to the main road and then transferred to the city of Kirovsk. 

  Check-in at the Severnaya Hotel around 6:30 pm. The hotel has a SPA-complex: 1.5 hour of stay in the SPA-complex is included. The complex offers: a swimming pool, Jacuzzi, sauna, Khammam. The complex is open from 8 am to 10 pm.

  Dinner is recommended in a restaurant of the hotel. 

  Provided the weather forecast is favorable, a guide collects you from the hotel for “Aurora hunting” (Optional).

  Breakfast and lunch are included today.

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• Day 4 — Snow Village

  Breakfast starts at 08:00. 

  A guide will come at 09:00 to help you to check-out, if necessary. Luggage shall be left in storage room of the hotel (free of charge). 

  At 09:30, get into a bus for transfer to Snow Village. After changing clothes and short introduction, start to snowmobile to Khibiny mountains. You will go via Petrelius valley – one of picturesque places of Khibiny Mountains.

  The top part of the valley is ended by rocky slopes of Yudychvumchorr mountain which is the highest pick of Kola Peninsula. The best view is opened from the East Petrelius Pass to valleys of rivers Malaya Belaya and Kuniok. 

  After you are back, Lunch in a Dining room of Tirvas Health Hotel located beside the Snow Village. 

  After Lunch – an excursion in Snow Village. 

  The Snow Village is a unique structure made of ice and snow, a magic winter land, palaces and labyrinths with ice paintings, figures and decorations. You can go downhill on toboggans and walk on giant skis, ride a huge plastic "banana" pulled by a snowmobile. 

  At 16:00 transfer to Meridian hotel in Murmansk city (collecting your luggage from Severnaya hotel on the way). 

  Arrival in Meridian Hotel around 19:00. Check-in. 

  Dinner in reccommended restaurants. Overnight. 

  Provided the weather forecast is favorable, a guide collects you from the hotel for “Aurora hunting” (Optional).

  Breakfast and lunch are included today.

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• Day 5 — Transfer to the airport.

  Breakfast. Transfer to the airport.