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Day 1:
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Bangkok - Stockholm - Kiruna
06.50: Arrive Stockholm
12.00: Depart Stockholm to Kiruna by SAS flight.
13.05: SAS flight arrive at Kiruna airport.
Representation from Ice hotel will meet and
welcome the guests to Kiruna, the samll mining
town 200 km north of the Arctic Circle.
During the winter period from December to
April, the winter sky is often lit up by the
amazing Aurora Borealis, with its beautiful
and magic colourings and scribbling.
13.30: Guided bus transfer to Jukkasjarvi.
13.45: Arrive the small village of Jukkasjarvi,
beautifully situated by the Torne river.
This is the village where the famous Ice hotel
is built each year.
The story of Jukkasjarvi (The name
Jukkasjarvi means meeting place) goes back
to the 17th century when it was a market and
meeting place the laplanders, settlers and
hunters in the area.
14.00: Lunch buffet in the Ice hotel restaurant.
The restaurant is famous for its cuisine,
specialised in the local lapish dishes such as
reindeer, moose, char, whitefish and of
course cow berriers and cloud berries.
15.00: The guests will be supplied whith very warm
winter clothes such as snowmobile suite,
fur hat, mittens and insulated snowmobile
boots.
15.30: A guide tour of Ice hotel.
In Ice hotel you will find a chaple, where
weddings and christenings take place, all the
beautifully ornamented rooms and suites
and sculptures made of anow and ice and
the absolut icebar made od ice from the
Trone river.
The absolut icebar was in 1994 chosen to
be among the ten most spectacular bars in
the world by the amazing newaweek.
The tour ends with a drink served in an ice
glass at the bar.
16.30: Check in to your accommodation.
For cold accommodation:-
Check in to double ice rooms.
Everyone is equipped with sleeping bags.
The recommended sleeping utensils are
long sleeved underware, socks and a hat
on your head.
You sleep in beds made out of ice on
insulating and soft mattresses and reindeer
hides. Inside temperatures varies between
3 to 6 degrees celsius depending on the
outdoor temperatures.
For warm accommodation:-
Check in to warm hotel room.
Rest of day is at leisure.
3 course ice dinner
20.00: Dinner will be served in the ice hotel
restaurant.
After dinner the bar in the celler of the
restaurant and the absolut icebar will be
opened until 01.00 A.M.
Accommodation in Ice hotel.
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Day 2:
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Ice Hotel
07.30: The guests are worken up and will be
served a warm non alcoholic drink. Walk
to the Jukkasjarvi sauna department for a
hot sauna. Have a wonderful buffet
breakfast at hotel.
10.30: Go for the dog sleds tour. Then you will
be served a wildnerness lunch inside a
cosy wooden hut where a fire is sparkling
in the open fire place.
14.30: Back in Jukkasjarvi and leave back the
borrowed winter clothes and shoes.
17.10: Snowmobile tour. First a short introduction
in the noble art of driving this winter vehicle.
2 people per snowmobile who take turns
driving.
17.30: The landscape is covered in deep, white
snow and you will be able to enjoy the
fantastic scenery as well as the driving. On
he way a stop will be made and you will be
served coffee/tea and cake in a wooden hut,
sitting around a sparkling fire.
19.30: Back at Ice Hotel.
Accommodation in Ice Hotel.
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