sign in sign up
<<
Home , Kuopio

14N | 15D

2014 – Departure Dates Start - End - HELSINKI 24 May 2014 07 June 2014 07 June 2014 21 June 2014

DAY 1 | HELSINKI Arrive at and transfer to Hotel Presidenti or similar • Afternoon enjoy a Sightseeing tour of Helsinki (with English Speaking Guide) covering view of the bustling seafront Kauppatori (Market Square), the Senaatintori (Senate Square), the Sibelius KUOPIO ROVANEIMI Monument. Finally visit the Temppeliaukio Church (Quarried out of the natural bedrock, is one of Helsinki’s most popular tourist attractions.) (Indian Dinner)

DAY 2 | HELSINKI - LAHTI - KUOPIO After Breakfast, Check-out and a Scenic Drive from HELSINKI to KUOPIO • En-route, stop at LAHTI. Here you will visit Lahti Ski . Also enjoy a short Chair Lift ride to the Ski Jump Tower & enjoy a wonderful NORTH CAPE MIDNIGHT SUN view of LAHTI from Top of the Tower • Continue your journey to Kuopio • This region has more than 24,000 lakes! Your tour includes Entrance to Tower. The Pujio Tower has a revolving restaurant atop, so feel free to grab a cup of coffee or a local delicacy (not included) or just enjoy the vast panorama of an endless mosaic of blue lakes and green islands • Check-in and Overnight at Hotel BW Savonia or similar. (Breakfast | Indian Lunch (packed) | Buffet Dinner)

DAY 3 | KUOPIO - GEIRANGER After Breakfast, Check-out and a Scenic Drive from Kuopio to Rovaniemi – the capital of Lapland in is the hometown of Santa Claus. Located at the junction of North and South on the border to the Arctic, has become a modern town, full of life with its own unique characteristics • Upon arrival, visit the Santas Village. Here you will obtain a certifi cate for having visited Arctic Circle and the Santa Claus Village • Later check-in into your Hotel Rantasipi Pohjanhovi or similar (Breakfast | Picnic Lunch (Dry) | Indian Dinner) FLAMSBANA DAY 4 | ROVANIEMI - IVALO After Breakfast, check-out and drive from ROVANIEMI to IVALO • En route visit The Luosto Amethyst Mine. (Entrance and Guided Tour included). Visitors to the mine reach their destination by hiking through a natural habitat • Later Driving along The Urho Kennonen National Park continue your journey towards Ivalo • It is the last place where you can see a great expanse of wilderness this far north in Europe. Keep your eyes open for reindeers • Check-in and Overnight at Hotel Ivalo or similar. (Breakfast | Picnic Lunch (Dry) | Buffet Dinner) COPENHAGEN 4 DAY 5 | IVALO - KARASJOK - VESTERPOLLEN - HONNINGSVAG After Breakfast at Hotel, Check-out and Drive from IVALO to HONNINGSVAAG • We are coming closer to the extreme edge of , and indeed the Northern Most Point of Europe (North Cape) • We will drive along the Porsangerfjord to Kafjord. And from Kafjord we will travel through the longest auto tunnel in the Artic to the North Cape Island, Mageroya • We will arrive in Honningsvag After some time at the souvenir shop, and check in at our hotel • Overnight at Rica Hotel (Honningsvaag area) or DAY 13 | OSLO - STOCKHOLM similar • Today late evening enjoy North Cape Excursion After Early Breakfast at Hotel, Check-out and transfer to • Entrance to North Cape hall included with certifi cate • Central Station. Board your train to Stockholm (Approx 6 The North Cape is the point where the Norwegian Sea, part hours – 2nd class). Lunch on Board. Upon arrival enjoy a of the Atlantic Ocean, meets the Barents Sea, part of the guided tour. You will see an old medieval area, an elegant Arctic Ocean • Get to the Northcape and watch the sun Royal Palace, Stortoget – the hub of an old town, the going down between 11.00 pm and midnight and you will Stock Exchange – now home of the Swedish army. The old see that before touching the ocean the sun will start rising town streets are lined with quaint boutiques, art galleries, and again. In Honnigsvag & at the Northcape the Midnight Sun DAY 10 | GEIRANGER - BERGEN antique shops • Enjoy Dinner at an Indian Restaurant before is from mid-May till end of July. Bring your cameras, checking in at your Hotel Rica Talk or similar. After Breakfast at Hotel, Check-out and travel from and dress warm. Return to your Hotel. (Breakfast | Lunch on Board Train | Indian Dinner) GEIRANGER to BERGEN, via Road no. E39 and a (Breakfast | Picnic Lunch (Dry) | Buffet Dinner) Ferry Crossing • Arrive Bergen and enjoy 2 hours DAY 14 | STOCKHOLM - City Sightseeing Tour • Bergen is situated around DAY 6 | HONNINGSVAG – COPENHAGEN TROMSO the historic harbour area. Enjoy a Funicular ride (FLOIBANEN), which will take you to the summit of One After Breakfast at Hotel, Check-out and drive to After Breakfast at Hotel, Check-out and Drive from of the Bergen’s mountains to enjoy spectacular views STOCKHOLM Airport • Flight from Stockholm to HONNINGSVAAG to TROMSO • Travel through the • After enjoying Dinner at an Indian Restaurant Check- Copenhagen • Upon arrival at Copenhagen, transfer Longest Auto Tunnel in the Arctic. This will be a long in at your Hotel Scandic Bergen City or similar. from Airport to an Indian Restaurant for Lunch • After but Scenic Journey • Upon arrival at Tromso, enjoy (Breakfast | Picnic Lunch (Dry) | Indian Dinner) Lunch, set out on Sight Seeing tour of Copenhagen, a short panoramic tour of the City • Check-in at your the capital of • Denmark is the smallest of Hotel Scandic Tromso or similar. DAY 11 | BERGEN - VOSS the Scandinavian countries, located on the peninsula of (Breakfast | Picnic Lunch (Dry) | Indian Dinner) - LAERDAL (FLAMSBANA) - Jylland, bordering , and on about 500 islands. HEMSEDAL Copenhagen got its name from the word “köbenhavn”, DAY 7 | TROMSO - which means “Merchants harbour”. In the city tour we will After Breakfast at Hotel, Check-out and enjoy a scenic After Breakfast at Hotel, Check-out and Early Morning see the Stock exchange, Amalienborg Sqaure – with drive from BERGEN to VOSS • At VOSS we will board transfer from HOTEL to AIRPORT • Flight from Tromso its four immense palaces and the Little Mermaid. We the Flamsbana Train. The 20 km-long Flamsbana to Trondheim (May be a via Flight) • On arrival at end our tour in the very heart of Copenhagen at Gammel train journey provides some of Norway’s wildest and TRONDHEIM, transfer to Indian Restaurant for Lunch Strand, which is only a few minute walk from Strøget, most magnificent scenery (rivers that cut through deep • Later visit the famous Nidaros (Built over the main shopping street in the city • After the city tour ravines, waterfalls cascade, snow-capped mountains the burial place of St. Olav, the patron saint of Norway) • enjoy Dinner at an Indian Restaurant before checking in and mountain farms cling dizzily to sheer slopes) • The Check-in at Quality Hotel Augustin or similar • Later at your Hotel Comfort Vesterbro or similar. Flåm Railway is one of the world’s steepest railway enjoy a short Walk to the Indian Restaurant for Dinner. (Breakfast | Indian Lunch | Indian Dinner) lines on normal gauge. The gradient is 55/1000 on (Breakfast | Indian Lunch | Indian Dinner) almost 80% of the line • Arrive FLAM and spend DAY 15 | COPENHAGEN some free time here. At the foot of the mountains DAY 8 | TRONDHEIM - DOMBAS you can enjoy the natural beauty of the Flåm Valley After Breakfast at Hotel, Check-out and drive to - TROLLSTIGEN - GEIRANGER and admire the majestic Aurlandfjord, a branch of the COPENHAGEN Airport for your fl ight Back Home. After Breakfast at Hotel, Check-out and set out on a world’s longest fjord, the Sognefjord • Later drive (Breakfast) very Scenic Journey from TRONDHEIM to GEIRANGER, to LAERDAL, via World’s Longest Tunnel, 24.5km via DOMBAS and Trollstigen Mountain Road and a and then to Hotel • Overnight at Skogstad Hotel, Tour Cost Includes Ferry Crossing • Arrive at GEIRANGER and Check- Hemsedal or similar. • Economy Class Airfare for Flight between (1) Tromso in at Union Hotel or similar • The Geiranger Fjord, (Breakfast | Picnic Lunch (Dry) | Buffet Dinner) – Trondhem & (2) Stockholm – Copenhagen the falls and the majestic mountains have made the • 2nd Class Train Journey between Oslo - Stockholm village one of Norway’s most visited tourist venues and a DAY 12 | HEMSEDAL - OSLO World Heritage Site. After Breakfast at Hotel, Check-out and drive to OSLO • Tour Cost (Breakfast | Indian Lunch (packed) | Buffet Dinner) Arrive OSLO and enjoy Lunch at an Indian Restaurant • Room Type Sharing Per Person (Euro) Double / Twin / Triple Share 3350 Early evening enjoy Guided Sight Seeing tour of OSLO € Single Occupancy € 4050 DAY 9 | GEIRANGER the capital of Norway, beautifully located at the end of Child (2-6 years) without Extra Bed € 2450 After Breakfast at Hotel, enjoy a Fjord Cruise (about 1 the Oslo fjord and surrounded by extensive green . Please Note: hour) between GEIRANGER and HELLESYLT Along the Oslo City Tour covers visit to Vigeland Sculpture Park Room size in Europe is quite small • Triple Room does not cruise you will admire many of the abandoned fjord and (This large park is a home for 227 granite and bronze necessarily mean three separate bed • Triple Room can have one Double Bed + 1 Roll away Bed • Child must share room with mountain farms • Return via Scenic Road Journey sculptures by Norway’s celebrated sculptor Gustav minimum Two Adult paying passengers. • Evening free at Leisure • Overnight at Union Hotel Vigeland). Also visit the Akershus Castle • Check-in or similar. at your Hotel Park Inn Oslo or similar. (Breakfast | Picnic Lunch (Dry) | Buffet Dinner) (Breakfast | Indian Lunch | Indian Dinner)

5