Northern Lights Wilderness Small-Group Tour from Rovaniemi: Hunt the Aurora Borealis
4.5
228 Ratings
Rovaniemi
Embark on a small-group tour from Rovaniemi to hunt the mesmerizing Northern Lights in the wilderness of Lapland. Explore the stunning nature and capture the magic of the Aurora Borealis with a personal guide and professional camera included.
Duration:
4 hours
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- Wild About Lapland - After being picked up and properly dressed with professional winter clothing and boots (if needed), your Aurora expert guide will drive you away from Rovaniemi, straight out to the wilderness. Based on the weather forecasts, the solar activity and our experience, we will select some locations that are more promising to see the Northern Lights. Your guide will also always check the weather conditions, and you may decide to try another location if you are willing to. As this excursion is a 4-hour tour, you may get the chance to visit up to 3 locations.
This tour will offer you the opportunity to head into the Lapland wilderness and explore the arctic nature, hopefully with Northern Lights dancing over your heads! Your guide will share with you their knowledge about the forest, nature and wildlife, and the northern lights phenomenon. They will also teach you how to build a fire in the traditional way, using elements from your surroundings, and will serve you some hot beverages and Finnish snacks to warm you up.
They will also be equipped with a professional camera and take many pictures of you and the Northern Lights (a link to download them will be sent to you the next day).
What's Included
- Professional guide
- Cold weather clothing
- Snacks, tea, and coffee
- All taxes, fees, and handling charges included
- Photos sent the next day
- Convenient hotel pick-up/drop-off for out-of-city accommodations
- Transport by private vehicle
Additional Information
Seize the opportunity to witness the Aurora Borealis from Rovaniemi in intimate groupings! Your personal guide will lead you through the wilderness of Lapland in pursuit of the magnificent Northern Lights. The tour includes use of a professional camera and complimentary photographs.
To ensure top-tier experiences, we cap our tours at 8 participants. We believe in delivering quality over quantity, staying clear of overcrowding. This approach allows our guide to focus on your individual needs and queries. Importantly, the prospect of adequately witnessing the Northern Lights skyrockets when group size (and the light disruption caused by devices like torches, phones, cameras, etc.) is minimized. As we commonly note - the smaller the crowd, the larger the experience!
- A maximum of 8 people per booking
- The Northern Lights are a natural occurrence, which activity, vibrancy of color cannot be guaranteed on the evening of the tour. Our tours are designed to maximise your chances to see them.
Location
Wild About Lapland
Rovakatu
If you do not need pick-up, please make your own way to our Wild About Lapland safari office (Rovakatu 24) for the start of the activity. An email will be sent to you at least one day prior to your activity to give you more information about the meeting time.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.5
(228 Ratings)
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Andreaceruti
Mar 31, 2024
Very good experience and tour operator. - The tour has been great, we have been lucky to be able to see the northern lights that night, that wasn't a given of course.
Nick has been fantastic!
Thank to small group we were part of and although we were out until late, Nick made sure our tired kids were involved, entertained and happy throughout. He explained the origin of the northern lights in layman terms, and took some great pictures for us that will now be part of our collection of memories.
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Scot_m
Mar 20, 2024
Northern Lights Excursion on the Arctic Circle - Enjoyed a view of the Northern Lights phenomenon and some camaraderie around a fire pit in a teepee with folks from around the world (Malaysia, Italy, Chile, and India).
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Julie_h
Mar 20, 2024
Must Do - Just an amazing tour. I would highly recommend. Tour guide was very knowledgeable and helpful and caring
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Michele
Mar 7, 2024
Highly recommend! - Our guide Maria was fantastic! Because the northern lights are unpredictable we didn’t get to see them. But our experience was great, we walked through the snow to a magical teepee and our guide told us all about the indigenous people of Finland and Finnish culture in general. Yummy barbecue too!
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Vacation65745673645
Mar 5, 2024
Such a great surprise. Amazing nature, really good food and mesmerizing nature - The food was great, the proximity for main spots was really nice, and the nature was out of this world!
Really recommend anyone to visit Rovaniemi. Do the aurora hunting, snow mobile trip, huskies (i prefer to pet them instead of getting a trip by them) and reindeers, do ice bath + sauna.
Most probably your goal is to see the northern lights, so look for companies who refund you when the weather is not favorable and can cancel the trip or even move to another day.
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Jessica_j
Mar 5, 2024
Poor Visibility, Excellent Guide - Sadly we went out on a night where the chances of seeing the lights were slim to none, but Maria was determined to find us even a spec of the lights and she absolutely did! It was not super visible or vivid, but using her camera the photos came out really amazing. Maria worked hard all night to find us just a little slice of lights, thank you so much Maria!!!
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Andresoso2013
Mar 13, 2024
Go buy the experince not the aurora expectations - So, we booked the small group tour with photographer. Buy more the experience rather tran the seeing the lights.DO NOT CHOOSE DENNIS, as your guide he was very unprofessional , we feel unsafe during the tril, he was driving like crazy, we were with the kids, that even didn’t matter; during the road trip he speak nothing to us, no curiosities about the magic Lapland , NOTHING, even he said not to talk to him he was arguing some stuff in the office, as we suppose, I felt he was disturbed by every question we adressed him.
He took us only in 2 places, we knew from the beginning we won’t see anything.
So we took a photography tour, we had 2!
Instead he managed very well the sausages :)) I don’t tking he qualifies for a guide tour.
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Savithaskv
Mar 9, 2024
Not worth it if the weather is cloudy - We didn’t get to see the northern lights as it was cloudy, rather than chasing the lights more importance was given to grilling sausages and staying in one place.It’s better to choose a Aurora Hunting group which gives more importance to Aurora even though it takes all night
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Vacation65745673645
Mar 5, 2024
Don't Recommend. Look for companies who refunds when there are no expected northern lights. - The weather was cloudy and there were no Northers Lights in Rovaniemi for 2 weeks straight. Even though, the company picked us up and everything occured as planned. The pickup, the ride to 2 different locations and the barbecue at the end (a sausage and hot chocolate). What we thought was the worst part was knowing there are other companies who cancel their trip and refunds their clients when they know they won't see northern lights. That didn't happen with this one, who knew with all their experience and based on ALL weather forecasts, there would be no northern lights. The price is really expensive for a 4 hour trip with food and 0 northern lights.
Next time I go to Rovaniemi I wont do it with this one but with the company that can refund the clients.
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Apoorvaj2024
Mar 14, 2024
Misleading and unprofessional guide and tour - Very disappointing tour. Was not provided with any overalls and the guide mostly kept to himself without giving any details or information about the plan. The tour mentions upto 3 locations, but we were only taken to 2 locations not far from the city, where the city lights were clearly affecting any chances of seeing northern lights. The weather was really cloudy and most of the other tour companies canceled the tour for that evening as there was no possibility of seeing the northern lights. Our guide went ahead with the tour anyway and was only focused on wrapping up the BBQ snack and then heading back. He did not even wait for the said 4 hours or try anything to improve chances of catching some aurora by looking for a place with clear sky. Complete waste of time and money! The photos provided the next day were a joke. They were not edited at all and were completely unusable due to darkness. Certainly not 'professional' photography here! Would not recommend this tour or company to anyone.
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