Welcome to enjoy traditional local countryside dinner and get to know more about the local countryside lifestyle and history. The place is located on the border of Oulanka national park, 15km from Ruka, on the shore of the lake, and is surrounded by nature. After arriving, the program starts with crowberry and birch sap juice as a welcoming drink, and straight after guests are involved in dinner preparation. Together with farmers you will collect herbs from the garden, check fishing traps for a catch, and bake potatoes in the open fire. At the same time, you will get to see the farm itself and animals – dogs, pheasants, goats, chickens, and others.

Now it’s time for dinner, which is served by the open fire in laavu (traditional, ethnic lean-to). Meals are made from local and natural ingredients, based on traditional old-time recipes.

The menu includes
Starter forest mushroom soup
Main fried fish and cole potatoes and turnips whit herb butter
Dessert pannukakku whit spiced syrups as (tar, dandelion, cowberry) or strawberry jam During the program stories about local lifestyle and history are shared.

• Duration: 3-4h with transfers
• The minimum group is 6 persons
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As you arrive, we invite you to our lakeside hut for a warm welcome drink.
We gather around a cosy camp fire to hear stories of the Sami, people who lived here for hundreds of years before the Finns.
We then move on to our main building where we bake together: local flat bread and sweet buns. The old oven in the more than 100 years old Pohjola family home will bake them to perfection.
While you are busy with your chores, you will learn a lot of local history, traditions, people. The Pohjola family gladly shares their stories with you.

• Lunch of the day is served with your own flat bread and the coffee comes with your own sweet buns
• Duration: 3,5 – 4h
• Open weekly departures can be booked below. Private departures are on request, minimum 8 persons.
• Incl: transfers, baking, lunch.

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Before you have experienced it, you cannot understand the blissful feeling which takes over the body after a bath in a smoke sauna. The gentle warmth and scent of our Seven Star Smoke Sauna leave you with an ever-lasting memory. Our sauna master takes care of heating the sauna, and he also knows how to make the traditional, fragrant birch whisks. The sauna is heated with dry birch logs. Heating a smoke sauna is not a job for a busy man. Bathing in a smoke sauna is a unique experience, with peat moss treatment and a dip in the lake water, in summer from the pier, in winter through a hole in the ice. All this leaves a wonderful, relaxed feeling to the entire body.

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We welcome you to prepare a gourmet meal in a traditional Lappish hut ”Kota,” with the help of the hostesses. The secrets of cooking on the open flame are revealed at Hut. In the age-old tradition of Kuusamo, salmon and other local products in season are cooked into a delicious 3-course meal. This Finnish gourmet meal will be eaten in the warm glow of the Kota fireplace. The meal ends with stories about life in North-East Finland told by your hostesses over a cup of aromatic campfire coffee.

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(starting from the end of August)

After a long day full of activities, what can be better than a good dinner? Probably only the dinner made from local delicacies, hence we invite you to Wild Food dinner served in Kota in the middle of a forest. If we will be lucky some wild animals can be spotted during the program, and let’s hope, that Fortuna will smile to us and after dinner, we will see a magical show of Northern lights in the skies. (Note, northern lights can be visible only from the end of August)

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• Duration: 2,5 hours with transfers
• Min. group size 8 pax.
• Incl. transfers, program, dinner, guidance
• Difficulty level – easy 

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For centuries the secrets of local herbs people have been passing from generation to generation, and now it’s time to reveal them to you. Get to know more about nature and the goods it is providing, try herbal teas, and enjoy the silence that may be disturbed only by the sounds of nature.
The program starts with heading to nature, where together with the guide we learn about local herbs and collect them for tea making. Afterward, the guide will reveal the secrets of herbal tea making and serve freshly made drinks by the campfire or in Kota.

• 85€/adult, 45€/children 4-11 y
• Duration: 2.5h
• The minimum group is 4 persons
• Incl. transfers, program, guidance
• Difficulty level – easy 

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Let’s escape from the hustle and bustle to enjoy the superfood of Finland – berries in local forests. Our guides will show you the best place for picking various berries – blueberries, cloudberries, lingberries, cranberries, and others. You will get a chance to enjoy self-picked tasty vitamins, learn more about Lappish nature and the ways how fins are using berries. Snacks and drinks will be offered at the end of the program

• 80€/adult, 45€/ 4-11 y
• Duration: 2.5h
• The minimum group is 4 persons.
• Incl. transfers, program, guidance
• Difficulty level – easy/moderate

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