Period:
5.2. - 12.2.2011
12.2. - 19.2.2011
26.2. - 4.3.2011 For women only!**Ask for the program!
5.3. - 12.3.2011
19.3. - 26.3.2011
You can combine the ladies' skiing tour from guesthouse to guesthouse with the ski week for women 19.2.-26.2.2011.Price for those two tours is 1210 €.
Group size:
6 - 12 persons
Price:
950 EUR/person
**890 EUR/person
Single room:
80 EUR/5 nights
Additional days:
60 EUR with full board and skies, transfers not included
Includes:
On the arrival day, Saturday; group transfer from airport Kuopio about at 18.00. Return on Saturday; group transfer to airport Kuopio at about 9.00 for the flight about 11 hours.
Accommodation at various guesthouses (Puukarin Pysäkki, Laitalan Lomat, Pihlajapuu, Männikkölän Pirtti or Hyvärilä) in double rooms, full board, skies and ski shoes, sauna every day, luggage transport, guidance.
Physical condition needed:
Skiing experience and condition to ski max. 30 km/day
Cross-country skiing in North Karelia
Set out for a tour by ski to the idyllic countryside of North Karelia.
Snow, white forests and frozen lakes; February and March are the best times of the year for skiing in North Karelia.
The sun is shining, the snow glistens, the frozen lakes and hills are covered with a thick coat of snow.
Daily skiing tour is between 15 and 30 km and 6 to 8 hours with breaks. You should already be able to ski and have an average condition, you also get fitter every day!
We´ll eat sandwiches and chocolate and drink hot tea or berry juice on the breaks. It is quiet in the forests. Sometimes you can see hare footprints or even elk footprints crossing our ski track.
In the evening you can have a sauna and cool-off in the snow. You also get to know typical Finnish delicacies and after a good night sleep you are fit to ski again.
Program:| 1st day |
Arrival at Karelian Guesthouse Puukarin Pysäkki, in Valtimo (about 150 km transfer from airport Kuopio). Dinner and getting to know the fellow-skiers. |
| 2nd day |
Getting to know the skies, skiing tour around Paalajanvaara in the afternoon, 8 km. Accommodation in Puukarin Pysäkki. |
| 3rd day |
Starting the tour by skiing through forests and fields and along lakes, 26 km. Accommodation in Laitalan Lomat. |
| 4th day |
The house ski track of Laitalan Lomat, 16 km. Getting to know the reindeers of Laitala! Accommodation in Laitalan Lomat. |
| 5th day |
Skiing along variable terrain to Guesthouse Pihlajapuu, 27 km. |
| 6th day |
You can have a day-off at Pihlajapuu or take a short skiing tour to Nälkömäki (12 km). In the evening smoke sauna at Minna's and dinner (glow-fried salmon) at Pihlajapuu.
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| 7th day |
Skiing from Pihlajapuu to Guesthouse Männikkölän Pirtti. Most of the ski track is on the fourth biggest lake of Finland, Lake Pielinen.
15 km.
In the afternoon we will visit Bomba, the Karelian House in Nurmes, 4 km.
Accommodation in Männikkölä (groups of 6-8 persons) or in Hyvärilä (groups of 9-12 persons).
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| 8th day |
Time to say hei, hei!
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