THE ENCHANTING AURORA

Finland is famous for being the ‘Happiest Country in the World’, as well as having the world’s best education system and cleanest air. Finland is known for its saunas, reindeer, Nokia and the Santa Claus Village. This Nordic utopia is sometimes called the ‘Country of a Thousand Lakes’. Arrive at Helsinki Airport at 1415 hours. After immigration and customs formalities, board your coach to be transferred to the hotel. Check in at the hotel and take rest. Later, get transferred to an Indian restaurant for Dinner.
Meals: Dinner
Overnight in Helsinki

After breakfast, checkout and Board a coach and proceed for city tour.
Visit Senate Square where we photo stop. The Senate Square consists of Helsinki Cathedral, the Government Palace, the main building of the University of Helsinki and the National Library of Finland. A statue of Alexander II (1894) stands in the middle of the Senate Square. Helsinki Cathedral is arguably Finland’s most famous and photographed building. Then we visit the Kauppatori Square which means market square – Helsinki Harbour Market and Market Hall. This charming outdoor Finnish market just near Helsinki harbour is an excellent place to find fresh fruits and vegetables, fish and baked goods offered for sale by the friendly Finns. This is where we would arrange for some light snacks.
Later visit Sibelius Monument.
Early Dinner would be arranged at an Indian restaurant and then you all would proceed to the railway station to board a night Sleeper Train to Rovaniemi. If you’re going to Lapland, what could be better than taking the Santa Claus Express, an overnight train from Helsinki to Rovaniemi.
Experience the Santa Claus Express night train – the Finnish double-decker night train, known as the Santa Claus Express, travels from Helsinki to snow-covered Lapland in the north. The train stops at Rovaniemi, the official home of Santa Claus. See the beauty of Finland from the comfortable compartments of this train and wake up above the Arctic Circle the next morning.
The Santa Clause double-decker train has a shower facility along with all modern amenities.
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

Disembark from the train at 0729am and then proceed to a restaurant for breakfast. After a satisfying breakfast, you are to commence your journey towards the Santa Claus Holiday Village (about 8 km from Rovaniemi Centre).
You can meet Santa Claus and cross the magical Arctic Circle every day of the year at Santa Claus’s Workshop Village in Rovaniemi. Rovaniemi is the capital of Lapland and the official hometown of Santa Claus.
In Santa’s Pajakyla you will find many high-quality programs service companies, gift and souvenir shops, Santa’s main post office and reindeer, as well as restaurants and cafes. And of course, you can meet Santa in his chamber every day of the year.
Later drive to Saariselkä. Saariselkä is a resort village in northern Finland. It’s a gateway to the trails and ski areas of mountainous Urho Kekkonen National Park. Check-in at one of the Glass Igloo accommodations which are a one-in-a-lifetime experience.
Admire the northern lights and the twinkling of the bright starry sky in one of the Glass igloos you would be staying in. Visit the Planetarium at Kakslauttanen. After Dinner, we would arrange Aurora Hunt – the Magical Lady in the Skies on a coach.
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

After breakfast, we start the drive cutting across Finland into Norway.
Along with the entire coast from Loften to the North Cape, as well as locations in Iceland and North America, Hammerfest is found directly under the Northern Lights oval. This means that no place on the planet has more Northern Lights than Hammerfest.
From the 22nd of November to the 20th of January the sun never rises above the horizon in Hammerfest. We call it the polar night. During that time, it’s almost dark all day, but around noon you can experience “the Blue Hour,” before the northern lights take over the show.
On arrival in Hammerfest, check in at the hotel. Explore the city and the possibility of visiting the Museum of Reconstruction. Today after dinner, we board a coach for an Aurora hunt, as Hammerfest is the hotspot in Norway to see the magical sky.
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

After breakfast, drive towards the south to the city of Alta – the Northern Light City.
In Alta, experience northern lights at the best spots on the legendary and sparse Finn mark plateau or to the Arctic coast. There is an increase in your chances of seeing the lights. Maybe you’ll even get to see orcas and humpbacks returning to the area! The waters near the tiny city of Alta in Arctic Norway have recently become host to some of the world’s largest mammals – the mighty orca and humpback (possibility of Whale watching).
Alta is the largest town in Finn mark and offers northern lights, midnight sun, mountains, Sami culture, reindeer and UNESCO-protected rock carvings. On arrival, check in at the hotel.
The day is to explore the Alta Museum – the World Heritage Centre with Rock Carvings, Northern Lights Cathedral or even try a hand at Snowmobile Safari. Dinner at the hotel. Proceed for Aurora Borealis hunt.
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

After breakfast head further South to Northern Norway’s Capital city of Tromso. The Arctic capital of Tromse is a city with modern restaurants and shops, surrounded by unspoiled wilderness. The city has its own university and brewery and is surrounded by hundreds of islands, dramatic mountains and deep fords. Tromse is named the gateway to the Arctic, and today an entrance to experiencing the Northern Lights, high-quality adventures and many restaurants and bars. The Northern Lights reveals itself mostly north of the Arctic Circle and Tromse is located in the centre of the Aurora heartland. In fact, it has one of the world’s highest densities of the Northern Lights! On arrival in Tromse, check in at the Hotel. Proceed for dinner.
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

After a relaxed breakfast, the day is for you to choose the optional activities as mentioned below:
You could opt for Husky Safari, Snowmobile Safari, Snow Shoeing, etc.
Dinner and overnight at Hotel. After dinner we go for another Aurora Hunt by a coach.
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

This morning after breakfast, drive further South towards the town of Narvik and on to Kiruna to enter Sweden. Kiruna is a town in the far north of Swedish Lapland. It’s known for the huge LKAB iron ore mine and its underground visitors centre with an exhibit on mining. Hjalmar Lundbohmsgärden, the 19th-century former home of LKAB’s first managing director, is now a museum with a courtyard photography exhibit. Kiruna Church is notable for its bell tower and resemblance to the traditional huts of the indigenous Sámi people of Sweden.
On arrival, check in at the hotel. After dinner, explore the area for Aurora Hunting by coach.
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

After breakfast, we check out around 10 am and proceed for a city orientation tour. Visit Kiruna Pastorat (Kiruna Church). Kiruna Church is a church building in Kiruna, Sweden, and is one of Sweden’s largest wooden buildings. The church exterior is built in a Gothic Revival style, while the altar is in Art Nouveau. Then you would be taken to visit the ice Hotel – every year when the winter comes, the pristine waters the meandering of Torne River slow down and freeze into ice. On one chilly day in 1989, the first ever Ice hotel was hand-sculpted out of these massive ice blocks harvested from this very river running alongside.
Approach winter since the first and original ice Hotel was built, passionate artists gather in the modest town of Jukkasjäarvi to build a new rendition of this Arctic wonder. When the spring comes, the hotel is then left to melt and find its way back to nature. Each coming winter brings a one-of-a-kind version of the Ice Hotel, promising a new set of treasured memories just waiting to unfold in this stunning Swedish destination.
In the evening, board the overnight train departing Kiruna at 18:28 hours. Your dinner would be packed and served on board. You all would be arriving the following day in Stockholm at 09: 25 hrs.
Meals: Breakfast & Packed Dinner

On arrival in Stockholm proceed to a restaurant for some mouth-watering breakfast and then proceed for a guided city tour. Lunch on your own and then check in at the hotel. The rest of the afternoon is for you to relax in your room. In the evening we go to the city centre to do last-minute shopping and have dinner at Indian Restaurant.
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

After breakfast, checkout. Transfer to a coach and proceed to the airport to board your flight home to India.
Meals: Breakfast