We wich you arrive at your first hotel until 6 pm. You will stay in a city center hotel. From the airport, you reach your hotel easily with the airport train or Finnair airport bus. The bus is running every 20 minute and the train is running every 10 minutes.
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, there will be many words about upcoming days. 

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A very very Finnish buffet breakfast this morning with Kalakukko and Karjalanpiirakka! When your stomach is full we hit the road to the north! Most likely you will see also first raindeers today! And you will see a lot of empty roads. For the night we park our bikes almost to Santa's doorsteps in Rovaniemi, the capital of Finland's Lapland! But before that we go naturally and say hello to Santa to his Santa Village which is on the Arctic Circle!

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Norway from curve to curve today... literally with a wide smile inside your helmet! :) ... Enjoy to the road and the and landscape but remember to stay on your own side of the road! Our destination today is Alta and it's riverside camping where we have cozy cottages with facilities!

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Today we say 'go south'! It is also a very very spectacular driving day all the way to Lakselv, and from Lakselv to Inari very spectacular! 

And yes, tonight we sleep in Inari, Finland. Inari is in the middle of Lapland's Saami-area and there is a good Saami Center, Siida. We have time to visit Siida before going to the hotel if you want!

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Day devoted to the northern dimension! Murmansk of Russia! From breakfast, we drive to Alyoshalle... if we did not drive up there yesterday when we arrived to the city! However, Alyosha is a huge concrete soldier which has been erected in memory of soldiers who died in World War II. On another must in the city is ms Lenin, now a museum in the city's harbor. Before a nuclear icebreaker! After ms Lenin, we continue to the Museum of Northern Fleet! That's the cultural part of that day. The end of the day and the evening of your time to explore the city.

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After a relaxing breakfast, we hit  Murmansk Highway to the south. It's and an easy and light driving day today. Our address of the day is 'St Petersburg of Karelia', Petrozavadovsk, which is the lively center of Karelia. Petrozavadovsk is also an excellent place to have a traditional Karelian dinner if there is a little culinary living inside you! :) 

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St Petersburg day! If you want, you can stroll around on your own... a little private adventure! St Petersburg is a safe city. And if you want to go around with your tour leader... then stick together! There is a lot to see in the city. Your tour leader's day goes somehow like this... Peterhof with the hydrofoil, Palace Square, Isac's Church and Vodka Museum! :)

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Tour ends and time to go home. But if you have a spare day or two, it is not a bad idea at all to enjoy our big small capital, Helsinki! 

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Showtime. After picking up our bikes we head north. Our first stop is at beautiful Pulkkilanharju where you get the first contact with the lakes in Finland. Totaly there are around 60000 lakes in Finland, so we do not have time to see them all on this tour. Most of the day we avoid main roads and drive secondary roads which are much more fun for bikers. We end our day in Kuopio where you will for dinner something that all the Finns love! Muikkus with Perunamuussi! You will taste also the local specialty, Kalakukko. That is something that half of Finns love!

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Today we drive through the northern part of Sweden and the capital of Swedish Lapland, Kiruna is a great place for the lunch!

After Kiruna we have more and more curves on the road... and more and more mountains! It's a very bautiful ride from Kiruna to Narvik. You had a bright night in Rovaniemi, but today the sun does not set at all! ;)

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Go North! And today we go as far as the road goes! And it goes all the way to Nordkapp where we stay an hour, two or three! Actually you can stay here as long as you want... and if it is a clear night, you might want to come back at midnight!? Nordkapp is normally a very windy and cold place, but even so, or because of that it's a very special place to visit all year around!

First to Norway. Our small road is following most of the time Lake Inari, which is the 3rd biggest lake in Finland. In Norway, we have a 20km ride and then we are at the border of Russia!

Border crossing is seldom fast, it can happen also, but prepare your mind that we might be here a couple of hours!

When we have all the stamps needed we say 'harosso spasiiba' an hit the road to Murmansk. Our 1st stop in Russia is Nikel where yuo most unlikely want to spend the rest of your life! :)

This is a bit longer day. We have 640 km to go, but we can do it easily. After Murmansk, there is not any traffic lights and not much traffic either! And it will not be dark whatever time we arrive at the exotic city of Belomorsk! Most likely we will be in Belomorsk about 6-7pm. If you haven’t felt it yet, the feeling that you’re far from home, you will feel today when we drive to Belomorsk. Here it feels as if time has stopped and that you’ve stepped back 50 years in time.

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Today we drive to the pearl of Russia, St Petersburg! At the halfway stop you will have your best borch-soup on this tour at the famous Farmers Restaurant!

After lunch, the traffic starts to be busy, and when we are outskirts the city, traffic is very busy! :) ... but with bikes, it is always easier to fit in! In the evening, before or after dinner we take one of the numerous canal cruisers for a 1,5hour! Old St. Petersburg is awesome – just like Venice with its canals and historical buildings! 

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Back to Finland! We take to Vyborg the nice small coastal road which is following the Gulf of Finland. In Vyborg we take lunch. If there is a lot of traffic at the border, waiting feels better with a full stomach :) .

When we are in Finland, we continue towards Helsinki at the Old King's Road, which is one of the biker's favorites in South-Finland! Last stop before Helsinki is in the unique red wooded Porvoo. And yes, in the evening it is time for farewell dinner!

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