Snow Safari in Paistunturi Wilderness Area, half-day tour with wilderness lunch

Paistunturi is a large wilderness area with stunning sceneries of  taiga and tundra in Northernmost Finnish Lapland, in Utsjoki. This  area is one of the world´s oldest mountain regions. With 3 billion  years of erosion and ground movements,  the sharp mountains have  turned into gentle rolling fells, crossed by deep carved river valleys  and canyons. From the highest fell tops, you get a great view over  the entire 1500 km2 large wilderness area, as far as to the fells in Norway. The  indigenous Sámi people still practice their traditional livelihoods of  reindeer herding, hunting and fishing in this region. 

On our snow  safari to Paistunturi wilderness area, you get to travel in a sled  pulled by a local guide´s snowmobile. On this tour, you get to  see the spectacular nature of the region (birds, wildlife, snow formations), but also learn why the untouched wilderness is an important cultural landscape of the Sámi and how the local culture is rooted in nature  through nature-based livelihoods.

We have planned a shorter and longer snow safari to Paistunturi  wilderness area. This is the longer tour, about 4 hours, and we  drive deeper into the wilderness area and enjoy a wilderness lunch  at a wilderness hut. (You can reserve the shorter, 2-hour snow safari via email at arctic@travelutsjoki.com or directly from our webstore. We recommend families with children to reserve the shorter snow safari.) All tours include pick-up max 5 km from Utsjoki  village, extra winter clothes and helmets.