HUSKY SAFARIS
REVONTULI RETKIÄ & PAKETTEJA
MUUT TALVIAKTIVITEETTI VAIHTOEHDOT
YEAR-ROUND PRODUCTS
KIT HIRE & CAR TRANSFERS
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COURSES
Our Traditional Farm 'Kota' (a circular building with a central fireplace, around which clients sleep on comfortable mattresses on top of reindeer-skin covered benches) is often used by clients on the night before their multiday safari starts as well as on the first night of our 3- and 5-day tours. Hence, during the busy winter season, we can rarely offer it to independent travellers. Outside of the safari season, however, it is possible to stay on the farm with us for a behind the scenes glimpse of life on a working husky farm.
FYI: This accommodation is rustic but comfortable. There is water available for basic washing of hands etc (as well as a standard toilet c.200m from the kota close to the farmhouse), charging ports for computers and underfloor heating but no running water (aka no shower!). The nearby toilet is, as standard in Lappish wilderness settings, an outdoor toilet. Use of sleeping bags and liners is included in the price but you are also welcome to use your own.
Please note that since the kota is situated in the middle of the farm of c.200 dogs, a guide will facilitate your experience and sometimes even (outside of Covid times) stay with you on the farm, overnight (and I am sure that a couple of dogs would love to join you too!).
The kota stay is priced around a base cost for cleaning and preparation that is divided amongst the group. In other words, the per person price reduces with the number of participants (up to 9) in the group.
The price also includes the price of a farm tour (€20 per person) and the option to walk old dogs (normally €35 per person) - assuming that you arrive early enough to do so. You are also welcome to brush dogs or do standard behind-the-scenes tasks like adding bedding to kennels, cleaning bowls, helping with feeding in the evening or basic farm tasks in the morning. Other farm activites, like those suggested here, can be booked (as suggested below).
If you wish, there is also the potential to book a dog agility session, to join in the evening feed of the dogs on the farm, or to try bike-joring with the dogs, etc. In other words, there are a number of additional farm-related activities you could book, including the canoeing products in the summer months.
Breakfast and dinner (cooked, for you, over the open fireplace) is not included but can be requested ahead of time and we will do our best to comply. If you request breakfast we will lay out a continental breakfast including porridge, cereals and breakfast bread. If you do request an evening meal we normally cook a traditional Lappish meal of either reindeer, mashed potatoes, self-picked lingonberries and gherkins or locally-caught white fish, lemon sauce, rice and vegetables. Desert is either squeaky cheese, baked bananas or s'mores. Please let us know if you have dietary requirements that mean that we will need to prepare something else.
Check-in is after 4pm (in other words, you are welcome to come straight to us from the afternoon bus - there is a bus stop just outside the homestead). Dinner is generally served, at the latest, between 7 and 7.30pm (aka when the guides are still at work).
If you are to arrive on the 10pm bus but know that you will not have had a chance to eat, we can provide sausages and a salad and you can use the outdoor BBQ fireplace for grilling. Self-cooking on the indoor fireplace is not allowed.
Check-out time is before 11am in summer and before 10am in winter. If, of course, you have booked farm activities in the morning, or you are helping out with the daily farm tasks, then you can check out after these, although we may need to tidy the kota to have it ready for other use, in the morning.
To stay in our farm kota costs the following:
NB: If there are children or married couples within the group, then there are two sections of benches which we can combine to make it possible for 8 or even 9 people to sleep there. However, the space is most comfortable when used by a group of 6.
7 people: €53 per personOur Wilderness Cabins
We have a number of other wilderness cabins which can be rented by the week (on the Palojöki river, across the Ounasjärvi lake, on the shores of Kellotijärvi and - soon - on the banks of the Tarvantojoki River. Enquire / see our location section for more information.
