Discover the best of Nordic winter in Iceland and Norway!

Overview

Experience Sami culture by feeding reindeer in this one-of-a-kind nighttime tour! You’ll have the chance to eat a traditional Sami dinner inside a candlelit lavvu (traditional tent), listen to stories around the campfire, and learn all about the trade of reindeer herding. At the end of your tour, you might even see the Northern Lights!

Highlights

  • Feeding of wild reindeer and walk around the reindeer camp
  • A joik performance (traditional Sami folk song)
  • Guests will have the opportunity to be outside and try and catch the northern lights

Travel out into the wilderness and walk among 300 reindeer (with the opportunity to feed them too). Afterwards, enter a candlelit gamme to enjoy a relaxed three-course meal followed by the sounds of joiking (songs), Sami history and stories. On a clear night, you might be lucky enough to catch the majestic northern lights.

Price details:

Adults: NOK 2,150

Children (ages 3–12): NOK 1,075

Children under 3: Free of charge

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Availability Nov - Apr
Duration 4.5 hours
Departs from Tromsø
Difficulty Easy Suitable for most people in fair condition.
Meet on Location No
Pick Up Yes

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Itinerary

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Your guide will pick you up at 5.40 PM at the Tromsø Havn Prostneset bus terminal. Our partners advise you to arrive earlier, so that the bus can promptly depart at 6 PM. After that, it‘s just a 35-minute drive to the reindeer camp! 
 
Once you arrive, you‘ll be greeted by the wonderful creatures already waiting for your visit. You‘ll have the chance to feed the reindeer, all 200 of them, straight out of your hand as they swarm around you! After the reindeer are happy and full, you will learn how to use a real lasso (but not on real reindeer). 

Following that, you‘ll head inside a candlelit lavvu—a traditional cone-shaped Sami tent. What follows is a delicious dinner, consisting of a delicious cold-smoked salmon starter, an authentic Sami stew called bidos and hot drinks (vegetarian/vegan/gluten-free option is also available). After the meal, gather around the fire with a chocolate cake dessert to enjoy stories about Sami culture and learn about the art of reindeer herding. Your guide will also perform a joik (traditional Sami song). 
 
After the tour is finished, if you’re lucky, you might catch a glimpse of the Northern Lights! Even if you don‘t, standing beneath Norway’s dark winter skies is an experience in itself. Once you‘re done, you‘ll board the bus back to Tromsø at 10:30 PM 

Pick up is at 5:40 PM at the bus terminal at Tromsø Havn Prostneset, (Samuel Arnesens gate 5, 9008, Tromsø) 

There are two entrances. One is by the buses and one is between the Terminal and the Clarion Edge. Tour guides will be where the buses are ready to depart to camp. If you do go to the wrong entrances, walk through the terminal to the other entrance and you will find them there. 

Look out for pick-up guides who will be wearing blue “Tromsø Arctic Reindeer” jackets.  

Please arrive with time to spare so we can ensure a prompt departure of 6:00 PM

What's included

Included

  • Pick up from Radisson Blu Hotel in Tromsø city centre at 18.00
  • 25-minute bus drive to the reindeer camp
  • Hot drinks (tea, coffee, hot chocolate) around the fire inside a warm candlelit gamme (traditional Sami hut)
  • A cold-smoked salmon starter, followed by a bidos (a traditional Sami stew) and Sami bread (a vegetarian option is also possible)
  • Chocolate cake and blueberry dessert whilst listening to storytelling of Sami culture and how it is to be a reindeer herder
  • Bus ride back to the city centre around 22.30

What to bring

  • Warm clothes

Not Included

  • Meet on location

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