Nordkapp Motorcycle Tour  12 d

We wish you arrive at your first hotel until 6 pm. Before welcome dinner, you can do what to Finns do... have a Sauna! At 8 pm you will have a welcome dinner with your tour leader. During the dinner we learn to know each other a bit and talk about upcoming days!

After a very Finnish buffet breakfast this morning with specialities, we continue our motorcycle trip to the North Cape and will ride to the Finnish Lapland's capital, Rovaniemi. Most likely you will see on the roads our first reindeers today! You will ride on lots of empty roads, be careful with the wild animals.. For the night we park our bikes almost at Santa's doorsteps, here in Rovaniemi.

Go more north! And going more north from Ivalo means also that we contine our motorcycle trip out from the forest area. The trees shrink to bushes before they totally disappear when we will arrive at Nordkapp!

But before we drive anywhere, we visit Siida museum! Siida is a Sámi Museum and Nature Center. We will learn about the Sámi people, the native people of Lapland. Later, we change country and drive to Norway. But the only real change you will notice on the road, is just a road sign saying Norge - Norway!

Today we say 'go south'! It is maybe also the most spectacular driving day of the whole motorcycle tour Nordkapp. We drive Norway's Atlantic Ocean Road! Scenic Road, connecting the mainland to small islands and islets, eight bridges to ride with panoramic views. After a full motorcycling day, we stop at the vibrant city of north, Narvik!

Another great driving day with huge views! We continue an other day south along the awesome Norweigian Atlantic coast!​

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Our ferry to Finland leaves at 8am so yes, we will have a breakfast buffet onboard. From Vaasa to Helsinki we have a 430km ride but we are in Helsinki in any case before dark. Most likely around 7pm. In Helsinki it's time for the farewell dinner!

Showtime. Our first driving day on our motorcycle tour to Nordkapp takes you to beautiful Kuopio which is along the beautiful and longest lake in Finland, Did you know that there are over 180000 lakes in Finland? We will see a few of them on this motorcycle tour through Finland, all in great landscapes to enjoy on this trip. Most of the day we avoid main roads and drive secondary roads which are much more fun for us bikers. We end our day at a lakeside hotel where you can have a swim un the lake or at the hotel pool. With the sauna naturally!​

Every day is a good day to visit Santa Claus! And Santa is living in Finnish Lapland. He is working 364 days from 9am to 5pm a year in an amazing fantasy world named after him, the SantaPark. His home is lirerally on the Arctic Circle.  It's the only place in the world where you can meet the original Santa Claus! After the visit, we continue our motorcycle trip towards Nordkapp. We ride to the north across Lapland's remote areas where reindeers are the most common inhabitants. Tonight we stay in Inari in the area of the awesome Midnight Sun!

If we did not visit Nordkapp yesterday evening/night we do it this morning... or both!? Most likely after breakfast, we ride in the middle of magnificent views to Nordkapp. Today we have a short ride to Alta so we can take our time here! And yes, today we have only magnificent and awesome views and many many bends. 

Holiday in holiday! It means that today is a day of. Relax, hike, visit some museums as you wish!

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Today we say 'see you next time' to Norway and drive to Sweden.​ The North of Sweden, a very sparsely populated area like the Northern Finland. In the evening we arrive at the shores of the Gulf of Bothnia and a small town whose name is Umeå. It is the largest city in Northern Sweden, nice and small, as they are many in Sweden and Scandinavia.

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The tour ends and time to go home. But before that we return the bikes which need to be returned. So if you have a rental bike, don't book your return flight before noon! And, if you have a spare day or two, it is not a bad idea at all to enjoy our big small capital, Helsinki!