2-Day Polar Night Safari

2-Day Polar Night Safari

A two-day dog-mushing experience driving your own team c. 60–80km across Europe's most remote landscape, sleeping in a traditional farm kota or wilderness cabin.

Your 2-day dog-mushing experience normally starts at 11am on the first day. We issue arctic-suitable kit and clothing, introduce you to the farm and dogs, and give detailed sleigh-driving instructions.

Once you are ready, we teach you to set up your own dog team: the harness size each dog needs, why this group was selected for you, their characters, and where each goes in the running line. Over the two days you transition seamlessly from open marshland to lake, river and forest glen, discovering hidden gems and experiencing the changing light of the Arctic days.

  • Drive your own dog team across c. 60–80km over two days
  • Sleep in the traditional farm kota among the dogs (or a wilderness cabin for a surcharge)
  • Detailed driving instruction and team set-up training
  • Available January to end of April
  • Solo Sleigh from €700 (farm kota) / €830 (wilderness cabin)
  • Also available as a 4-day all-inclusive package from €890

Where you sleep

Most 2-day safaris return to the homestead at night, and guests sleep on the farm among the dogs in a traditional kota (a circular round-wood cabin with a central fireplace). This is a unique chance to join the evening farm routines and glimpse behind the scenes of a working husky farm — most guests enjoy feeding, brushing dogs or walking retired dogs and pups.

We also offer some overnight safaris (for a surcharge) to our wilderness location, usually Palojöki, where we have a cluster of cabins on the edge of the remote Tarvantovaara Wilderness Area. Either way, you will probably be joined in your accommodation by a couple of dogs wanting a cuddle for the night.

Day 2

On the morning of the 2nd day, we will get ready together before exploring a new landscape. If you have spent the night on the farm, you will be greeted by a morning howl and then we will involve you in getting the dogs ready for their various programs of the day. Our standard schedule will aim to get you back to the farm around 4pm on the second day.

We have a couple of route options for this two-day safari and will choose which we take based on factors like weather, temperature and how your schedule best fits into the rest of our bookings.

General Information

Available: From the beginning of January until the end of April. Price: Adults Solo Sleigh €700 (farm log-kota) / €830 (wilderness cabin); Seated Children (not really recommended) €435 / €495. As a 4-day Package: Solo Sleigh €890 / €990, Seated Children €600 / €700.

Price includes: Guided farm visit, detailed driving instructions, lunch and snacks on both days, one dinner and one breakfast, overnight accommodation in a log cabin / farm kota and c. 60–80km of driving with the dog teams across the two days.