Overlooking the North

Ice world where land is covered with a white blanket

Yukasyarvi-Sweden

Enter the ice world where land is covered with ice and white blanket, and your hotel is built of ice. The whole hotel shines in the pale blue light. It's like you are in a glacier. The transparency of the ice due Swedish Thorne River. From the water gets ice without bubbles. 

This is the Arctic world Yukasyarvi, Sweden, located just 120 kilometers from the North Pole. Is the closest airport in Kiruna, 12 kilometers, which is reached by 90 minute flight from Stockholm. Daily buses connect the airport to the ice hotel in Kiruna. You can also navigate by taxi or by dog ​​sled. The average temperature in January is minus 12 degrees and the ground is covered with snow. Cold January day in northern Sweden are short and starry nights are long, but this is the best time to see the bright colors of the legendary Northern Lights. Three day stay granted sufficient time to ride the dog sled, to experience their hand at ice sculptures or take a walk with snowshoes on your feet and relax in the sauna under the stars.

Each year in December here is building a new hotel different from last year. Each room of the hotel is individually designed by leading architects from around the world. A unique combination of hotel rooms. In the lobby there is ice chandelier. Also every year the river Thorn build a church that is illuminated in a unique way. In this church can experience a magnificent wedding, and then spend the night in an ice room. The bar "Absolute" guests sit on blocks of ice covered with reindeer skins. Drink cranberry juice arctic vodka pour into glasses of ice. Guests are free to participate in a safari to monitor elk. In snow-covered forests may proceed with a sled pulled by dogs or elk. You can also walk with snowshoes. You can even go to the lessons of ice sculpture. Northern Lights at night looks like live. And you can spend one night in chalet overlooking the wide sky box to enjoy the Northern Lights.

Four days in Arctic snow

Day 1

Upon arrival to get to the ice hotel transfer on a sled pulled by husky. Join a tour of the park tour, which will provide a unique opportunity to look uniquely furnished apartments. Enjoy a frosty drink at the ice bar, which give you the mood for the night in the ice room.

Day 2

Spend the day in one of organized trips from the hotel. Visit tour "Sami" Sautosyokka farm where you will meet traditional culture. We will eat lunch cooked over the campfire. You can also ride a reindeer. Or, join a snowmobile trip to the winter grazing moose. In the evening, taste the local specialties in the restaurant also served in bowls of ice. Spend the night in one of the huts to watch the Northern Lights.

Day 3

Spend the morning creating your own ice sculpture under the watchful eye of expert ice sculptor. Afternoon climb on snowshoes and head for a walk with a guide through the snow-covered forests of the observation post. It is located above the town and over the hotel. There you can enjoy local pastries with a hot drink in hand. Return flight may get down a cliff on a rope.

Day 4

Take a final tour of the hotel, take pictures and eat from the abundant buffet at the Old Homestead.

Tips

•  Book your seats well in advance as the rooms during the holidays be filled very quickly.
•  Do not forget warm clothes and comfortable. It is important to fully enjoy the experience. Especially recommended thermal underwear.
•  Do not take cotton clothes. This matter will rather cool than warm you.
•  Remember to take full advantage of daylight hours because they are short in the Scandinavian winter.