Cruise out to Norwegian Lapland

Norwegian lapland

Cruise company Hurtigruten has launched a one-off trip to Norwegian Lapland.

The cruise company is offering a 12 day tour from March 25 to April 5, 2014 and the voyage on MS Midnatsol will combine a cruise along Norway’s wintery fjord coast with a tour into the interior of Finnmark, the northernmost province of Norway and home to the Norwegian Sami. Other highlights include a visit to an Igloo hotel, opportunities to meet the local Sami people and a Northern Lights tour.

The one-off voyage will start in Bergen, the Hanseatic city steeped in tradition, before visiting the old royal city of Trondheim, the picturesque Lofoten archipelago, the “Arctic capital” of Tromsø, and Alta, the largest city in Finnmark.

Weather conditions allowing, the ship will travel off the normal Hurtigruten course around the imposing North Cape Plateau, the northernmost point in Europe.

Passengers will then disembark for a two-day land tour of the region, where highlights  include a visit to the Alta Museum and its petroglyphs, a trip to the impressive Sorrisniva Igloo Hotel, a reindeer stew lunch by an e open fire on cosy reindeer skins in a traditional Sami tent and a concert by local performers.

At the end of the local tour, guests will be transferred back to Alta, from where MS Midnatsol sets off on its southward journey towards Bergen.

The trip costs from £1,855 per person for the cruise and land elements. Flights are available for an additional £450 per person.

See www.hurtigruten.co.uk