Winter Driving Adventures

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Winter driving adventures

Would you like to experience the rush of adrenaline while speeding in beautiful wintry landscape? You can head to the untouched Arctic wilderness, where you can immediately feel liberated from the stress and hectic pace of your everyday life.

You can learn how to drive in winter conditions with great rally drivers, some of them being world champions. You will learn new useful skills and have an experience of a lifetime. Ice karting is great fun for everyone ready to try their skills. Excellent long, winding tracks and frozen lakes are perfect terrain for motor sports in winter.
Driving a snowmobile is easy and fun. With this activity the excitement is combined with beautiful scenery.

Riding gear and instructions ensures your safety. You will follow your guide and enjoy. Length of trip can be adjusted to the wishes of the group. Anything from short beginner’s spins to the safaris that stretch for hundreds of kilometers, can be done. Speeding through beautiful landscapes on a machine you had never even mounted before. The thrill of it all is an exhilarating feeling that causes addiction. Sleds away!

Despite it being a wild and fun outdoor activity, there are traffic rules to snowmobiling. To preserve nature, legal trails are marked with signs while private land is a no-go unless approved by the landowner. The speed limit on trails, bogs and in forests is 60 kilometres per hour, and 80 when driving on ice.
For a snowmobile or rally car you need a valid driving license. Snow and ice karting is permitted for everyone. It is good to remember that the Finnish law prohibits driving under the influence of alcohol or any narcotic products.

Winter

Depending on location, winter in Finland begins in November and can last up to five months, with temperatures ranging from a balmy zero to a lung-freezing minus 35.

Winter

The wintry wilderness is every bit as magical as stories make it out to be. Driving through a silvery forest on a beast of a machine gives a rush that gets people hooked. Whisking through snowy scenery is accessible during winter months, but the most favored time is the spring with long sunny days that bring out the best of the immense natural beauty along the routes.

Snow karting or ice karting is lot of fun. First you familiarize yourself with the vehicle and the track. After few rounds the race will start and you can compete who will be the champion in your group. In this competition you are allowed to speed. The winner will get the fame and glory and perhaps a chance to co-pilot a rally car with the world champion rally driver.

Your trip in Lapland can start with snowmobiles directly at the airport. You change to suitable outfit at the premises. Get the instructions about the driving techniques and safety rules and your adventure is ready to start. You will drive to your destination yourself and your luggage is brought directly to your hotel. Snowmobiles can be used as transfer to meet the reindeer herder or the husky farm for another fun experience.

Winter rally makes it possible to learn how to drive in winter conditions with world champion rally drivers. As Finland is a country with most rally championships, many of the champions share they their talent to groups. The aim is that you become a master of steering on ice and you get some useful tips for everyday car driving in winter conditions. Upon arrival at the tracks there will be a presentation of teachers, cars and the track with different tasks. At the check points the points will be given according to time and marks achieved. Winners have a chance to get a real ride from the rally champion.

Having a break during your snowmobile trip is a treat. You can enjoy the tranquility of the nature and beauty of the landscape. Probably you wish to capture the moment with your camera or mobile device. Fresh air grows your appetite. Warm snack by the camp fire or in Kota (Lappish teepee) with hot coffee of juice will rejuvenate your strength to continue the trip.

You will be provided a proper thermal outfit for you snowmobile adventure from your safari company. Thermal overall with gloves, balaclava and woolen socks will keep you warm. Helmet and boots will keep you safe during your expedition into the wilderness.

There are two kinds of snowmobilers: those who like to go fast and those who treat it as a form of sightseeing. The first group can’t be blamed – speeding across frozen bogs and lakes would rank high on anyone’s excitement scale. On the other hand, cruising vast fell landscapes and silvery forests in a moderate pace is a fantastic experience.

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Winter driving adventures