Cross-country ski tour 'Khibiny Tundra' on Kola Peninsula (8 days)

Cross-country ski tour (8 days) 'Khibiny Tundra'

Day 1: Arrival in Murmansk airport. Transfer to a hotel in Monchegorsk (140 km). Check-in, dinner on your own in a Russian café and overnight in the hotel. (-,-,-)

Day 2: Breakfast at the hotel. You can train yourself and try-out our equipment in the surroundings of Monchegorsk. Overnight in the hotel. (B,L,-)
Distance of skiing: 20 km (or more, if want).

Day 3: Breakfast. Today we will meet our snowmobile guide whom takes care for luggage transport and prepare the cross country ski tracks. We start our ski-tour with crossing Imandra Lake towards Khibiny Tundra to a small village named Imandra Station. Lunch at a campfire in wilderness. Sauna, diner and overnight in a country house in more person room. Not necesarry lugguage during the tour you can leave in the hotel. (B,L,D)
Distance of skiing: 25 km.

Day 4: Breakfast. We continue beside the foot of the mountains and change the lake area for a beautiful forest landscape. After a campfire lunch we will come in a valley which leads us to the centre of Khibiny Tundra. Sauna, dinner and overnight in a small wilderness hotel surrounded by mountains. (B,L,D)
Distance of skiing: 32 km.

Day 5: Breakfast at the hotel. First we ski to eastwards to have a beautiful view on the forest valley and then we ski through the valley and over the Kukisvumchorr Pass (500m) to Kirovsk. Campfire lunch during tour. Dinner and overnight in Sanatorium Health Centre in twin room with shower and toilet. Possibility to visit Snow-village, a huge labyrinth made under the snow with beautiful wall carvings and with ice sculptures made by artists from all over the Arctic region; Russia, Finland, Sweden and Norway. The evening can be spent with the additional services of the SPA-Centre, sauna, swimming pool, massage and other healthy and medical services (to order in advance). (B,L,D)
Distance of skiing: 20 km (or more, if want)

Day 6: Breakfast. We continue our way westwards. Today it will be the summit of the ski-tour! We ski through valleys to the famous Ramzai Pass (743m), a cleft with high steep walls. We will ski in the desolate white world of snow plateaus surrounded by the highest mountains of Khibiny Tundra. Campfire lunch. Later we ski over the lake with lots of islands on the foot of the mountains to a road direction. A bus waits for us there. Transfer to Monchegorsk and check-in at the hotel. In the evening farewell dinner. Overnight in the hotel. (B,L,D)
Distance of skiing: 40 km.

Day 7: Breakfast. At 10:00 transfer to Murmansk. Check-in at hotel "Azimut" in the city centre. The rest of the day you can spend for sight-seeing Murmansk city. Lunch and dinner on your own. Overnight at the hotel. (B,-,-)

Day 8: Breakfast at the hotel. Transfer to Murmansk airport for the flight homewards. (B,-,-)

This Cross-country ski tour can be extended with the following options:

• Murmansk:
  • Tickets for museums and museum excursions cost between RUB 100 and RUB 1000 per person.
  • Entrance ticket to Atomic Icebreaker to join an excursion in Russian language: RUR 600 pp. Individual excursion to Atomic Icebreaker with a lecture in English language can be arranged.
  • City excursion in Hero city Murmansk.
  • Trip to Husky kennel close to Murmansk.
  • Trip to Saami Settlement close to Lovozero.
  • Trip to Teriberka and the Barents sea shore.
  • Trip to Husky Park close to Lovozero.
  • Trip to Lovozero village; Capital of the Saami.
• Monchegorsk:
  • Entrance tickets museums: approx. 50 roubles per person
  • 2 hour yacht excursion on the biggest lake of Kola peninsula named Imandra. Up to 8 persons.
  • One day hiking tour to the waterfall Devichyi Kosi (Girl's plaits) in Monche Tundra with campfire lunch.
  • One day bicycling tour in hilly area with campfire lunch.
  • One day kayaking on Imandra Lake.
  • Karting centre in Monchegorsk.
  • Cross-country skiing in Monchegorsk suburbs (winter).
  • Skating in Ice stadion in Monchegorsk (winter).
  • See link above for more info.
• Kirovsk area:
  • Excursion in Mineralogical Museum in Kirovsk.
  • Excursion in Museum of the North in Kirovsk
  • Excursion in Northern Botanical garden near Kirovsk
  • Alpine skiing on the best slopes of NW Russia in Kirovsk
  • Cross country skiing on lighted tracks near Kirovsk
  • Info about Snow-village near Kirovsk
  • Info about Snow-mobile safaris in Khibiny Tundra
  • See link above for more info
• Single- or double-entry invitations for Russian visa request.