6 Day Itinerary in Finland - Saariselkä, Lapland

We had the best experience in the small town of Saariselkä, Lapland... amongst snowmobiling, husky sledding, cold river plunging, feeding reindeers, and hiking in a Winter wonderland, we witnessed an actively strong and vibrant northern lights.
In this visual, we share how we spent 6 nights in Saariselkä, what our glass cabin looked like, and why we love Finland.
Hotel we stayed at -
Northern Light Village, Saariselkä: saariselka.northernlightsvill...
Snowshoe rental for day trip to Kiilopää -
Suomen Latu Kiilopää Rental Shop:
www.kiilopaa.fi/en/services-a...
Trip taken: November 2021
Timestamps:
0:44 How to get to Saariselkä from Helsinki?
1:35 Northern Lights Village Saariselkä Glass Cabin Tour
3:12 Food at Northern Lights Village
3:31 Traditional Finnish Pastry - Karelian Pie
4:27 Finland's tap water
4:51 Saariselkä Town
5:27 Santa's Office in Lapland
6:40 Day trip to Suomen Latu in Kiilopää
6:50 Suomen Latu Rental Shop
7:08 Hiking Kiilopää Trail at Urho Kekkonen National Park
8:18 Arctic Sauna (Cold Plunge & Smoke Sauna) at Suomen Latu Kiilopää
10:01 Hiking through a Winter wonderland to the Aurora Hut
11:20 Sauna at the Northern Lights Village
12:59 Reindeer Feeding in Saariselkä
14:11 Snowmobiling
15:56 Aurora Hunting Tour with Northern Lights Village Saariselkä
16:58 Husky Sledding
18:06 Northern lights in Finland / Aurora Borealis in Finland
19:17 #Traveltip - Stay in Finland as long as you can to catch the northern lights
19:42 Travel essential: Hot Hands hand and toe warmer (affiliate link below)
19:51 Photos from our trip to Saariselkä
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[@markogronfors3826]

It's great that you had a good time on the Saariselkä. And the biggest thing was that the northern lights showed up for you.Welcome back.

[@mauiandtrizzy]

Such a magical experience! So grateful we got that opportunity in the lovely Saariselkä. cant wait to return! Thank you for watching! Safe travels

[@inkak.2010]

i'm so happy you enjoyed your stay here! If you wish to experience the opposite of this, come back at midsummer and stay in the southern Finland - the nature is in full bloom and everything is just so lush and GREEN!

[@mauiandtrizzy]

Thank you for watching! We definitely want to come back to Finland haha thanks for the tip! it'll be so cool to experience the lush and greenery. Hoping that happens sooner than later, right?! HAHA! Safe travels

[@qwineth]

@@mauiandtrizzy Well, all the light, even in the south, it's just mad... We have a truly bipolar climate :)

[@SamiNami]

Aaw what a happy ending you saw the lights!

[@mauiandtrizzy]

Mother Nature blessed us! Thanks for watching

[@LindyhopBill]

We just got back from Northern Lights Village, and this was by far the best video to help us prepare

[@mauiandtrizzy]

Yay! Thanks so much for your kind words ☺️☺️. Were you able to catch the northern lights?!

[@LindyhopBill]

Yes, but just 1 of 4 nights, from 2am-3am. And only because of the glass Aurora Cabin.

[@yolandasaligumba2129]

Wow, hopefully I can visit this amazing place someday!

[@ACorpseWithoutSoul]

Kiitos for you guys. 😊 Im very grateful you have very great time in our country. 🤗 Our Lapland is very unique place in the world. In the winter it have low temperatures and lot of snow. Only few hours of daylight and if you are lucky you can see best cinema of the world, Northern Lights. In the summer Lapland is best place of the world because very clean air, hiking, biking, fishing and all of nature around you is amazing, Well, and of cousrse don't forgot our best food of the world. Many types of salmon and reindeer is best quality but we also have lot of nature mushrooms and berries with our foods. Best products of the world to vitamins and all other stuff because nightless night have a magig.

[@mauiandtrizzy]

Thank you for watching and sharing your country with us. We love it so much and miss it every second we’re not there! We would love to visit Lapland in the summer. You’ve convinced us! Haha we appreciate your positivity! Hope to hear back in Lapland soon. Safe travels!

[@dream.lifestyle]

Watching it from Australia and nice video with useful links

[@mauiandtrizzy]

thanks so much for watching ! hope you have great time out in finland! Hope to make it to Australia soon =)

[@ricksaligumba6566]

Thanks for sharing this very informative and detailed video, it’s like I’ve been on this amazing place for free,

[@mauiandtrizzy]

hahaha, thank you for watching!

[@punkkumies1283]

what a beautiful place

[@mauiandtrizzy]

It really is!

[@luisabertoloni3239]

❤beautiful

[@mauiandtrizzy]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@marm.5280]

Soo cooool!!! Did you look into any specific resources to learn how to take such great photos of the northern lights? It would be great if you could share. My camera isn't the most sophisticated, but I hope I can manage to get some decent shots 😄

[@mauiandtrizzy]

Hi! Trizzy here... thanks for watching. Hope we can help you capture the lights haha! I've been a videographer/photographer for more than a decade and being able to take photos and videos of the aurora truly a special moment. Regardless if you're shooting with your phone's camera, or a digital/mirrorless camera, the key is to have a travel tripod with a ballhead that fits in your luggage, or backpack. If it's super dark dark, the shutter setting (the thing that's like 1/60 or 1/200) needs to go down to 20-30s (if you have an iphone, you can manually set this too). I normally have my iso between 1600-3200 and my aperture as low as my lens will allow (ideally 1.4 to 2.8). Manual focus will need to be used for this because autofocus in the dark won't particularly work since it's too dark. Once your setting is done, set your camera to have a short timer so when you press the shutter button down, there's a 3-5second timer for any movement from pressing the shutter to settle. and with the tripod, it'll help! hoping that brings you lots of great photos and videos on your trip to chase the aurora. Sorry this was so lengthy, but i hope it made sense haha. check out one of my favorite filmmakers/photographers - Erwin Marionneaux www.youtube.com/@erwinmarionneaux he's great at breaking everything down safe travels!

[@hayatofury8580]

hot cold hot cold hot is good gfor your blood circulation, it has long term health benefits when done on regular basis. thats why Finland has more saunas than cars =D

[@mauiandtrizzy]

we love the hot-cold-hot-cold health benefits. always feel great immediately afterwards. definitely something we want to keep in our daily lifestyle haha. and that's so fascinating that there's more saunas than cars in finland! thanks for the insight, and for watching!

[@user-km8hs8rq1d]

Hi very beautiful video. Can you tell us where exactly is the spot at lake inari is where you haunted for the aurora? This would help us a lot. Thanks

[@mauiandtrizzy]

Hi! Thanks for watching! The coordinates were: 68°46'27.0"N 27°25'02.9"E ... that's entered in Google maps, and it should show the location with a lake, Kota, and the tower platform (in satelitte feature of the map). Hope this helps! Have a great time there. Safe travels!

[@sebastianniittyvuopio5017]

Aurora borealis hunting😮, Aurora is a mystical and romantic name that means "dawn" in Latin.

[@mauiandtrizzy]

aurora and dawn are both beautiful words! Thank you for letting us know

[@dala220]

Hello Maui, how much was the total cost of there trip for the week? I'm not sure if I have saved enough.

[@mauiandtrizzy]

Hi. Thanks for watching. It depends on how many excursions you want to do, and how long you’re staying for, where you’re coming from, etc. I would suggest to save at least $1,500, of course if you want to do excursions, save a few hundreds more. Hope you can make it out there! Safe travels

[@dala220]

@@mauiandtrizzy alright thank you will do.

[@dala220]

@@mauiandtrizzy is it true that Northern Lights are not the same when see them with your naked eye than camera?

[@mauiandtrizzy]

@@dala220we were able to capture the northern lights on all our devices (phone camera and mirrorless camera) - although it did a great job capturing our memories with the northern lights, we do believe it doesn’t beat what our naked eye can see 😊

[@mauiandtrizzy]

@@dala220we were able to capture the northern lights on all our devices (phone camera and mirrorless camera) - although it did a great job capturing our memories with the northern lights, we do believe it doesn’t beat what our naked eye can see 😊

[@Keinapappa]

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[@mauiandtrizzy]

Haha yay ! 🙏🏽 safe travels