Day One
After arrival at Luleå airport and your guided transfer to Brändön Lodge. Brändön Lodge is located just north of Luleå on the coast of Swedish Lapland and is a fantastic place to view the northern lights. It has a great view to the north with a low horizon and few artificial lights. It is also a great place to stay being small scale and very personal. Each of the 15 cabins at Brändön Lodge has two bedrooms with 2 single beds in each room. In one room the two single beds can be joined into a double bed on request. The cabin has a bathroom and small kitchen. The front of the cabin includes a balcony and all cabins have a view over the sea. In the main log timber lodge building is a relaxation lounge, bar and restaurant. The first afternoon is well spent getting to know us and relaxing. A delicious 2 course dinner awaits you in the restaurant in the evening. After dinner your guide will take you on a northern lights hunt along the archipelago coast.

Day Two
Day Two
Closeness to nature is part of our daily life and today we will spend some time together discussing the forest and the nature that surrounds us. We will give you some tips on how to live and stay safe in the arctic region in our Nordic Wilderness Skills activity, that includes lunch, and look for tracks and signs from the variety of wildlife that lives in the area. In the afternoon, you can relax, take a walk or consider one of the many optional activities available. Dinner this evening will be in the restaurant before we head out on a guided walk to look for and hopefully photograph the northern lights. After retiring to your cabin at Brändön Lodge you should of course keep a lookout for northern lights later in the evening.

Day Three
Today we will enjoy a guided tour via the Gammelstad World Heritage Village on our way to Arctic Retreat. Arctic Retreat is a beautiful and very small scale log cabin retreat on the banks of the Råne River. Here you will check into one of the three cabins and enjoy a fantastic outdoor lunch and later on dinner in their small log cabin restaurant. In the afternoon we will take a hike through the local forest along the river where there are opportunities for nature and wildlife photography. In the evening we will be out on the hunt for the northern lights.

Day Four
On our second day at Arctic Retreat we will spend the day on one of several optional activities including mountain biking, sea kayaking, whitewater rafting or canoeing.
Lunch and another fantastic dinner are again included and in the evening we will take a northern lights tour to try and find interesting foregrounds and back grounds to capture or even just view the aurora.

Day Five
Our guide will meet the guests at the Arctic Retreat at approximately 0900 for the two-and-a-half-hour drive to Sapmi Nature Camp. We will arrive about midday and send the rest of the stay settling in and getting to know Lennart, our Sami host, and moving in to one of five well appointed "glaring" style Teepee tents. In the afternoon you will join Lennart exploring the Laponia world heritage area around the camp and taking a deep dive into Sami history and culture and learning a great deal about their long history with the region and the reindeer. These days are by their very nature flexible as much depends not the weather and exact time of the season. Lennart is also an accomplished northern lights photographer and he will take you out to hopefully view or photo the lights in this remote area with little or no electric lights in any direction.