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Arctic Adventures (Featuring the Scantours Programme) 83993 Cover 22/09/2010 08:35 Page 1 NORDIC EXPERIENCE Arctic Adventures (featuring the Scantours programme) www.nordicexperience.co.uk Icehotel • Igloos • Husky Safaris • Arctic Wildlife NORDIC Snowmobiling • Northern Lights • Winter Iceland EXPERIENCE New Year Fireworks • White Weddings 39 Crouch Street, Colchester CO3 3EN 01206 708888 2010-2011 ABTA No.W879X reservations@nordicexperience.co.uk 83993 Cover 22/09/2010 08:35 Page 2 ARCTIC ADVENTURES NORDIC EXPERIENCE 39 Crouch Street Colchester CO3 3EN Tel 01206 708888 Booking Form Fax 01206 508899 e-mail: reservations@nordicexperience.co.uk DEPARTURE DATE DEPARTURE POINT RETURN DATE TOUR CODE AND TITLE TITLE FIRST NAME SURNAME DATE OF BIRTH CLIENT’S ADDRESS (IF UNDER 18) OR ABTA AGENT’S STAMP AGENT’S ABTA NO AGENT’S REF CLIENT’S EMERGENCY TELEPHONE NUMBERS Daytime .............................................................................................................. 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Signed: Signed: Date: There is no charge for payments made by Debit Card; Credit Card payments are surcharged at 2.4%; American Express payments at 3.6%. *for security reasons may be telephoned through 2 Nordic Experience Nordic Experience 47 83993 Nordic Experience__ 21/09/2010 18:42 Page 3 ARCTIC ADVENTURES OUR WINTER EXPERIENCES As the polar night lengthens and the snows fall along the Northern Lights at the Top of the World 66th parallel, an arctic adventure playground slowly takes (everything Joanna Lumley did & more) 19 shape across Lapland and Iceland stretching from Kirkenes Snow Hotel 20 Norway’s watch towered Russian border in the East to Sorrisniva Igloo Hotel 21 A Lofoten Wildlife Safari 22 Greenland in the West. In the Footsteps of Whalers 23 For thirty-something’s, husky mushing and glacier OUR FINLAND EXPERIENCE 24 snowmobiling will probably pass muster as an adventure. The Sounds of Silence 25 But of course for a five year old, meeting Father Kakslauttanen (Log cabins, igloos & safaris) 26 Christmas is an adventure like no other. And for the Lakeside Vistas and Fell Adventures 27 seasoned traveller either would be old hat but a trip Adventures at Harriniva 28 Adventures by Lake Inari 29 round Nordkapp, Europe’s most northerly point, might Christmas in Harriniva 30 count. Whatever you think of as an adventure; whether New Year by Lake Inari 31 you’re looking for a ‘been there-done that’ experience or just somewhere to gaze at the Northern Lights, have a OUR ICELAND EXPERIENCE 32 Reykjavik Brief Encounters 33 flip through these pages. And enjoy. Reykjavik Excursions (Days out like no other) 34 New Year in Reykjavik 35 OUR SWEDEN EXPERIENCE 5 Romantic Getaway 36 The Ice Hotel 6 Glaciers and Waterfalls under the Northern Lights 37 The Ice Hotel 7 Iceland in a Nutshell (All the island’s iconic attractions) 38 Our Ice Break 8 Safari Adventure by Super Jeep 39 Ice Hotel Excursions 9 Classic Ice Break (the classy way to do the Ice hotel) 10 WHITE WEDDINGS 40 Super Classic Ice Break (give yourself a treat) 11 Ice Hotel (Swedish Lapland) 41 Driving on Ice 12 Sorrisniva (Norwegian Lapland) 42 Husky Mushing 13 Oddi Church (Southern Iceland) 43 The Tree House 14 A Glacier Wedding (Iceland) 44 Aurora Retreat 15 The Small Print (Printed big so you read it) 45 OUR NORWAY EXPERIENCE 16 Booking Conditions (Our commitments and your rights) 46 Northern Lights Adventure 17 Booking Form 47 Northern Lights Experience 18 Back Cover 48 Nordic Experience 3 83993 Nordic Experience__ 21/09/2010 18:42 Page 4 ARCTIC ADVENTURES OUR OTHER EXPERIENCES CLICK AND GO HAND MADE TOURS Our web site www.nordicexperience.co.uk with its downloadable print pages and extended flip-through digital brochure features lots of additional tours and arrangements to those countries featured here and beyond. You’ll find an exclusive arrangement flying to Swedish Lapland and down to Stockholm to see the crowning of this year’s Santa Lucia; a tour with Norway’s leading Husky Musher following trails once taken by nomadic Sami tribes with their reindeer; glacier walking excursions in Iceland; tours to Greenland where the Northern Lights appear in their most colourful garb and more. Lots more. Just click and go. If you can’t find what you’re looking for to any of the countries we specialize in then let us HAND MAKE one for you tailored exactly to your requirements. You get all the benefit of our exclusive and confidential rates we use for our published tours in one designed exactly the way you’d like. We like to think of it as the travel equivalent of Saville Row bespoke tailoring at ready to wear prices. Just give us a ring; fill in the simple form on our web site or send us an e-mail. And every one of our hand made tours comes with our inclusive Travel Guide. 4 Nordic Experience 83993 Nordic Experience__ 22/09/2010 09:14 Page 5 ARCTIC ADVENTURES SWEDISH LAPLAND OUR SWEDEN EXPERIENCE A land of elegant cities inseparable from the exquisite In the village of Harads you’ll find the new and ultra chic beauty of its countryside. In winter the celebrated Treehotel with a sauna up ICEHOTEL opens its doors and Swedish Lapland is in the trees whilst over by Junosuando you’ll find the carpeted with snow trails for husky mushing; tracks along contrastingly traditional frozen rivers for snowmobiling and grazing grounds for clapboard hotel Aurora SWEDEN reindeer and moose. Retreat where you can BJORKLIDEN relax in style. JUKKARSJARVI You can stay in one of the ICEHOTEL’S's elegantly sculpted Art Suites; combine a stay there with husky And on the way up to JUNOSUANDO STOCKHOLM mushing across open tundra or skiing in nearby Swedish Lapland you can HARADS Bjorkliden. stop off in Stockholm LULEA where Lake Malaren’s water In the evening you can eat, sleep and safari under a meets the Baltic ‘Gamla canopy of stars and hopefully the Northern Lights Stan’ (the Old Town) with beneath them variously either wispy white swirls, rainbow beautifully preserved narrow coloured curtains sliding down the sky or white seahorses cobbled streets.
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