Best Season to explore : from November to April
Cities: Murmansk , Teriberka , Lovozero , Murmansk
Kola Peninsula is the best destination in Russia for Aurora Borealis ,clear skies and solar activity are the critical conditions to watch Aurora Borealis, The best timing is from 8:00 pm till 2:00 am. We can explore the best locations to hunt this amazing wonder of nature with Teriberka, husky park and sami village tours included!
Day -1
➤Meet and greet at Murmansk airport
➤Transfer to your eco-lodge in the tundra or city hotel
➤Optional: Russian banya
➤Northern lights hunt in tundra
Eco Lodge in the Arctic
Arrive Murmansk. Meet & greet at the airport, transfer to your eco-lodge in the tundra or city hotel (subject to availability). Sheltered behind forests and lakes from the urban bustle, our eco-lodge has an excellent transportation availability: only 10 minutes drive from the centre of Murmansk and 30 minutes from the airport. We stay in the only 4* countryside resort at the Kola Peninsula with free wi-fi available. Welcome to enjoy the Russian Arctic weekend! Alternative options include comfortable wooden houses made of cedarwood, with en-suite facilities.
Eco Lodge in the Arctic
Arrive Murmansk. Meet & greet at the airport, transfer to your eco-lodge in the tundra or city hotel (subject to availability). Sheltered behind forests and lakes from the urban bustle, our eco-lodge has an excellent transportation availability: only 10 minutes drive from the centre of Murmansk and 30 minutes from the airport. We stay in the only 4* countryside resort at the Kola Peninsula with free wi-fi available. Welcome to enjoy the Russian Arctic weekend! Alternative options include comfortable wooden houses made of cedarwood, with en-suite facilities.
Day – 2
➤Breakfast
➤Transfer to Teriberka village
➤Full day Teriberka village tour including snowmobiling access to the best attractions
➤Graveyard of ships, Arctic ocean and impressive waterfalls
➤”Dinosaur Eggs”
➤Lunch in a local cafe
➤Transfer back to Murmansk
Lost World
Transfer to Teriberka village, 130 km, 3 hours drive. (Northern Lights possibility: average) to the shores of the Arctic Ocean. It is the only place in Russia where you can reach the northern ocean by road.
Teriberka is one of the oldest settlements at Kola peninsula, founded in 16th century as a fishermen village at the shores of cold Barents sea. Fascinating Arctic nature is the biggest treasure, though there is a decent set of historical and cultural highlights to visit. Apart from arctic flora and fauna and splendid northern landscaped, recent appearance in famous Russian movie “Leviathan” have started to attract more and more visitors.
Aurora at Teriberka
Teriberka, being now the most popular village in Russia, sets the purest sample of cognitive dissonance: numerous visitors from Moscow and St Petersburg, travelling by expensive Land Cruises and other luxury vans, rising number of international travelers…coming to the semi-abandoned village with the old collapsing houses and the average salary of 150 USD per month.
Other accommodation options available
What else to do and see at Teriberka? Old wooden ships cemetery, beautiful sand beaches, abandoned historical part of the village, waterfall, battery of coastal defense, observation posts and strengthening’ of WWII. Please note, that due to bad road conditions and polar night, we depart at 4 PM and back to our hotel in Murmansk
Arctic meals
For custom tours or small groups travelling together, we advise staying in one of the comfy and cozy lodges in the tundra. Fully serviced.
Northern lights in Teriberka
Here in Teriberka, you will find yourself in the lost world, on the shores of the Arctic Ocean. We use snowmobiles to reach such highlights as the cemetery of abandoned ships and other attractions. However, life goes on and local cafes are now serving decent meals to international travelers. You can taste fresh crab, sea scallops, sea urchins, and seasonal catch of the day (weather permitting).
And then you will visit the famous fun park that is called Bobrovy Log, where you will have a chance to discover a beautiful view on the national park “Stolby” (Takmak rock) going up the hill by the ropeway to the observation point overlooking the magnificent views of the city and its surroundings. This tour is a wonderful opportunity to plunge into the wild nature without leaving the city.
Hotel accommodation.
Day -3
➤Breakfast and check out
➤Transfer to Husky park (3 hours)
➤Husky park visit and dog sleigh tour
➤Accommodation in a secluded tundra house (2-bedroom) with sky camera to watch the Northern Lights
➤Lunch
➤Snowmobiling
➤Private dinner in a glass dome
Transfer to Lovozersky Tundras. Lovosero is the top destination of Kola Peninsula for Aurora Borealis viewing, there are very high chances to observe it directly at the eco lodge. The observatory in Lovozero is the only geophysical observatory on the Kola Peninsula. It was built in 1957 specifically to observe the polar lights and to study the geomagnetic field, cosmic radio radiation and make conclusions about “the cosmic weather” above the Earth. Visit the husky park, meet cute dogs and take a ride through tundra! There are over 50 dogs in the park.
Comfy house with facilities
Check-in at a tundra house. There is one bedroom for 2 people and second floor suitable to sleep for 4. more people and we recommend this option to families and friends. Your guide will take you to the Husky Farm, where you will get acquainted with the breed of these sled dogs, learn about their breeding, communicate, play and make a pictures with Husky. Ride a sleigh through taiga – unlimited! The house feature an exclusive sky camera, so you can watch Aurora staying warm in the house and know for sure when it’s tbe proper time to get dressed in a Saami clothes and go outside to take pictures.
Snow boats and saami clothes
Special winter Saami clothes and snow boats will keep you warm even if it’s Arctic cold outside. The house has a special sky camera for Aurora viewing. You don’t need to hunt for Aurora anymore!
Snowmobiling
Then take off an 1 hour snowmobile riding through tundra. You should have a driving license. Otherwise, enjoy the ride as a passenger. Kids from 4 to 10 are welcome in a sleigh.
Glass dome dinner
For travelers staying overnight, we offer an exclusive experience: dinner in a glass dome to enjoy local meals under the Northern Lights. You may overnight in a traditional local Saami house (basic tourist class) or in a secluded tundra lodge. Please note that the dinner may be arranged the following night – we aim to provide the best experience and thus this activity is a weather dependant. We will choose the night with the best Northern Lights forecast.
Day -4
➤Breakfast
➤Ice fishing
➤Lunch
➤Transfer to Igloo glamping
➤Dinner
➤Optional Japanese bath
Ice fishing
Fans of fishing and all the nature amateurs get the opportunity to try a very special activity, an ice fishing, a popular northern type of entertainment. We will use fresh fish to prepare a tasty picnic and enjoy full day fun tour with activities in the middle of now here, after lunch, transfer to the Igloo glam ping and have another snowmobiles ride today to get you back to the highway from tundra.
Glamping experience
It is about 3 hours drive to the glamping. Dinner will be served in the igloo. You may opt for Japanese Furaco bath or enjoy tundra walks.
Day – 5
Lenin icebreaker
Tour Schedule
➤Breakfast
➤Transfer to Murmansk
➤Time for lunch
➤ Transfer to airport for your scheduled departure flight to your place
Anti-Hitler coalition memorial
Murmansk is the largest city in the world north of the Arctic Circle. Founded in 1915 as a supply port in World War I, it was a base for the British, French, and American expeditionary forces against the Bolsheviks in 1918. We shall visit either the Naval Museum or the Historical Museum.
If open, visit the museum of ice-breaker “Lenin”, the first nuclear ice-breaker in the world! Murmansk played an important role as a Russian trade link with the Allies during the Second World War II. Various supplies were brought to the city with the help of the Arctic convoys. Murmansk was heavily damaged during the war. It was restored at the beginning of the 1950ies.
Alyosha memorial
On October 4, 1916, Romanov-on-Murman was laid on the shores of the Kola Bay, renamed Murmansk after the October Revolution. By the way, this was the last city founded in the Russian Empire.
“And on the left hand of the Kola town, they went to the sea to look, they live Murman, Syrech – Norman, they are also Varangians, who in ancient times came and sailed from the city of Varda and lived with us robbed, which memory remained in the word – thieves, thieves. The abbot disputed: they say that the Normans, therefore, live in the ground holes (“nora”) live like animals: the reason for this is cold. And I say: this is not Murmas who live in burrows, and it is not because of the cold, but the small people shovel from fear, no matter how much our industrialists live it. You will not bite a Murman with a blunt tooth. ” – From the story of Levontius Pomorets. The impetus for the early development of the bay was the First World War. Trying to get access to the Arctic Ocean through the only non-freezing strait at that time, Russia in 1915 determined a site for the development of a seaport on the right bank of the Kola Bay of the Barents Sea. His task was to ensure the unhindered delivery of military cargo of the Entente during the blockade of the Baltic and the Black Sea exits. During WWI, Murmansk was the main port in European Russia
During WWII, the help of the allies was invaluable. Of great importance were the supplies of military equipment and ammunition, food and strategic materials that our defense industry needed. In March 1941, a law was passed in the United States that granted the president the authority to transfer, exchange, rent, a loan or otherwise supply military materials or military information to the government of any country if its “defense against aggression is vital to the defence of the United States.” This system is called Lend-Lease.
Murmansk winter sunset
Minesweepers were built in the USA by order of the USSR, other military equipment was being prepared. At the end of December 1941, two hurricane squadrons landed at airfields in Waenga and Gryaznaya Guba. This was written in the London newspaper Observer in November 1943 by pilot Hubert Griffith: “I was lucky to visit Russia as an adjutant to the wing commander along with our guys from the Hurricane squadron who arrived in Murmansk at the end of the summer of 1941. We were the first English military pilots to arrive here, and we were able to see with our own eyes how Russia was fighting. We lived and worked together with our Russian colleagues at one of the Arctic airfields. We met the Russian guys closer to nowhere, believed I in them, trusted them and, moreover, loved them. And they properly recognized us, believed us and, sincerely confident in this, fell in love with us.”
