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Northern Lights Photography

Inari · Saariselkä
Duration
7 Days · 6 Nights
The route
Inari · Saariselkä
Style
Dark skies over Inari and Saariselkä
Best season
December – March · best
The route

6 nights, 2 stops — dark skies over inari and saariselkä.

Inari → Saariselkä.

Round trip · returns to Inari

InariSaariselkä
What you're tracking

What you'll see

Reindeer
Across the fells.
White-tailed eagle
Over the lake.
Golden eagle
In the wilderness.
Wolverine
Rarely, in the remote forest.
Day by day

The journey, one day at a time

01Helsinki → Inari

Arrive Inari

The journey begins.

Arrive in Inari, met and transferred to your accommodation. Inari is the cultural centre of Finnish Sami country — wilderness and living Indigenous heritage together.

02Inari

Inari

A full day in the field.

Husky and reindeer time, and a remote aurora watch over the lake. Explore Sami culture at Siida and snowmobile across frozen Lake Inari, with aurora at night.

03Inari

Inari

A full day in the field.

Wilderness and culture by day, dark-sky northern lights by night. Arrive at Helsinki and transfer to Inari. Explore Sami culture at Siida and snowmobile across frozen Lake Inari, with aurora at night.

04Inari → Saariselkä

To Saariselkä

On to the next.

Transfer to Saariselkä. Husky and snowmobile safaris by day, an aurora night in a glass igloo. Arrive at Helsinki and transfer to Saariselkä.

05Saariselkä

Saariselkä

A full day in the field.

Explore the Urho Kekkonen wilderness, with northern lights after dark. Snow adventure by day, aurora from a glass roof by night. Saariselkä's glass igloos let you watch the northern lights without leaving your pillow.

06Saariselkä

Saariselkä

A full day in the field.

Snow adventure by day, aurora from a glass roof by night.

07Depart Saariselkä

Departure

The journey ends.

A final morning in Saariselkä — a last outing or a slow start as time allows — before the transfer onward and the journey home.

When to travel

The season changes what you see.

December – March

Peak season

Deep winter — frozen lake, snow safaris and remote aurora.

September – November

Good season

Autumn colour and early aurora over the lake.

Destinations

Where this journey goes

Make it yours.

Add nights, swap a park, extend to the coast — this route is a starting point, not a fixed menu. Tell us how you travel and we'll route the rest.

Field notes, now and then.

Where to go · When to go · Wildlife in season

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