Nature Skills
Outdoor activities in beautiful landscapes. Challenge your team, learn, have fun and enjoy the nature.
Team Path
Program: Fresh air and beautiful landscape surrounded for example by Koiteli white water rapids or Liminka Bay, amazing! Nice time, challenging but funny group tasks. You have to use your brains to solve these ticks and at the same time you can enjoy the nature of Island Sahasaari, Koiteli rapids or seaside of Liminka. The tasks cannot be completed successfully without teamwork, creativity and helping each other. The ability of working as a team will increase by itself. After teamwork, hot drinks and traditional grilled sausage are served in our cosy cottage or outside by the riverside.
Duration: ca. 2 hours
Available: All year round
Program includes: 5 different kind of guided tasks, hot drinks, sausages and cookies, diplomas and services of our English speaking guides.
Insurance: Go Arctic Ltd has organizer’s liability insurance
Traditional Tar Olympics
Program: How to get tar from the pine tree in to barrels? Join this program and find out! Pine tree tar has been one of Finland's main export product and river Oulujoki one of the main shipping rivers. Tar Olympics is fun with facts. First you have to find the right kind of trees to peel off the outside layer of the tree, chopping the trees and putting those into tar kilns to get the tar out of the pine. This program is full of information, but also competing with lots of laugh. After the tar is in barrels, it must be loaded and shipped to the storages. The fastest is the winner!
Duration: ca. 2 hours
Available: May – Nov
Program includes: 5 different tasks, prizes for winners, a souvenir for everyone, diplomas and services of our English speaking guides.
Insurance: Go Arctic Ltd has organizer’s liability insurance
Winter Day In Koiteli
Program: Welcome to Koiteli located by river Kiiminkijoki to spend a wonderful day outdoors in a good company! Word Koiteli comes from Sami language and means “in the middle” and here in Koiteli you get to enjoy fun outdoor activities in an island located in the middle of two rapids. Beautiful surroundings, ancient trees and the silence give a feeling of being also in the center of yourself.
Snow activities include short try outs of snowshoes, traditional kick sledge ‘potkuri’ and sledge ‘pulkka’. All these activities will give you the taste of traditional Finnish ways of moving in the snow. On top of these you will get to know the well-known arctic animal; reindeer and hear the stories of local reindeer herder. And of course everyone will experience a short ride in a sledge pulled by the reindeer.
After the snow activities we will enjoy hot drinks in Tunnelmatupa hut and everyone will have the chance to make their own souvenir out of wood, leather and pine wood tar. So you will get the scent of Koiteli to take home with you!
Duration: ca. 3 hours
Available: Nov – April, depending on weather conditions
Program includes: Activities as described above, services of our English speaking guides, diplomas, hot drinks and sweet pastry.
Insurance: Go Arctic Ltd has organizer’s liability insurance
Nature Day In Koiteli
Program: Welcome to Koiteli located by river Kiiminkijoki to spend a wonderful day outdoors in a good company! Word Koiteli comes from Sami language and means “in the middle” and here in Koiteli you get to enjoy fun outdoor activities in an island located in the middle of two rapids. Beautiful surroundings, ancient trees and the silence give a feeling of being also in the center of yourself. During the day you'll learn about Finnish nature and get to test some wilderness skills under the supervision of our professional guides.
Try out canoeing and enjoy a relaxing guided walk in the Koiteli area. You can carve wood and take part in a handicraft workshop, get to know reindeer and hear the fascinating stories of a local reindeer herder and in Tunnelmatupa hut you'll learn to bake some traditional Finnish buns by open fire. Very delightful day with traditional Finnish tasks it is.
Duration: ca. 3 hours
Available: May – Nov
Program includes: Activities as described above, services of our English speaking guides, diplomas, hot drinks and sweet pastry.
Insurance: Go Arctic Ltd has organizer’s liability insurance
Winter Olympics
Program: Go Arctic Winter Olympics is a program full of joyful winter sports in fresh air!
During the Olympics we go sledging, play ice-hockey and ski-jump. Lots of different outdoor activities requiring seamless team work in the middle of pure Finnish winter nature.
Come and experience hilarious moments and sporty atmosphere together!
Duration: ca. 2 hours
Price includes: Five different funny winter sports, prizes for winners, diplomas for everyone and services of our English speaking guides.
Insurance: Go Arctic Ltd has organizer’s liability insurance
Archery Competition
Program: The arrow flies through the air and hits the board – right to the middle!
Archery is an exciting hobby, which makes us forget our hectic life for a while. While drawing and targeting the bow you have to concentrate and forget everything else in your mind. Archery is about technique and it teaches how to control ourselves perfectly.
The program includes the basics of the archery and a competition between participants.
Who is the Robin Hood of the group? Archery suits everyone, welcome to try!
Duration: 1,5 hours
Available: May – Oct
Program includes: Learning the basics, training and competition, prizes for winners, diplomas for everyone and services of our English speaking guides.
Insurance: Go Arctic Ltd has organizer’s liability insurance
Games Of Old Times
Program: Feel the "good old times" when TV, Internet or PlayStation were not even invented, yet! We are playing old, traditional games from the Sami and Carelian. There are knives, wrestling, ropes and coins involved, safely and funnily, of course.
Duration: ca. 1,5 hours
Available: May – Nov
Program includes: Different traditional activities, prizes to the winners, diplomas for everyone and services of our English speaking guides.
Insurance: Go Arctic Ltd has organizer’s liability insurance
Heptathlon
Program: Traditional heptathlon is now moderated for totally new style!
The familiar sports like hurdles, shot put and discus throw are now mixed funny! There's a handle on the shot and the fastest runner might not be the winner at all.
After the program the best ones get to climb on the podium and receive the prizes.
There's so much fun and playful competing in this program!
Price includes: Organized competition, prizes for the winner and guiding services
Duration: ca. 1,5 hours
Available: May – Nov
Program includes: Funny sport activities, prizes for the winners, diplomas for everyone and services of our English speaking guides.
Insurance: Go Arctic Ltd has organizer’s liability insurance
OPTIONAL SERVICES
- Meals
- Transfers
- Guiding services in other languages than English: We have in our service guides who can help the groups in activities for example in Japanese, Chinese, German, Russian, Italian, Swedish.
- Winter gear: Includes overall, gloves, hat, wollen socks and winter boots