Nordkapp  North Cape Motorcycle Tour 

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 also the most spectacular driving day of the whole motorcycle tour North Cape! The North Atlantic and mountains are with us all day! And curves... many many many great curves to ride! After a full motorcycling day, we stop at the small Nordkjosbotn for the bright night.

Another great driving day with big curves, open roads, and small traffic. On our motorcycle tour North Cape back, we ride through 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 if you have a spare day or two, so in our opinion, it is not a bad idea at all to enjoy our big small capital, Helsinki!

Showtime. Our first driving day on our motorcycle tour to Nordkapp takes you to beautiful Pulkkilanharju, along the beautiful and longest lake in Finland, located in the famous lake region. 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 in the city of Kuopio where you can have for dinner local cuisine specialties, small fishes "Muikkus" with mashed potato. You can taste another local speciality, the "Kalakukko". All are typical food from the region.

Every day is a good day to visit Santa Claus! And Santa is living in Finnish Lapland. He is working 364 days a year  in an amazing fantasy world named after him, the SantaPark. His home cavern is underneath the Arctic Circle and nestled deep beneath the ground. It is the only place in the world where you can cross the Arctic Circle underground! After the visit, we get back to our motorcycles to continue our motorcycle trip to Nordkapp. We ride to the north across Lapland's remote areas where reindeers are the most common inhabitants. Our hotel is on the shore of Lake Inari where you can have a very refreshing swim... with or without sauna!... You are now staying in the area of the awesome Midnight Sun!

Today is a kind of a day off on our motorcycle trip to North Cape. After breakfast, we ride in the middle of magnificent views to Nordkapp, and when we arrive there, we have no timetable! It means you can enjoy the Nordkapp site as long as you want, and can drive back on your own to our hotel. After that, you recommend you to visit the small city of Honnigsvåg or maybe go hiking, or relax and listen to the strong wind here in North Cape. If you like hiking, there are many signposted trails... however, you can't get really lost here on the site.

A great driving day today! We drive from Narvik, we will turn east towards Riksgränsen, a state border. We might stop for lunch, if we didn't already take a late lunch in Kiruna. In Sweden, we  still have a lot of nice curves, but the road start to be more open. We will overnight in Gällivare, which is still Sámi area.

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Breakfast at the hotel, a big buffet lunch on the ferry between Umeå and Wasa... and then we do not need much to eat before Helsinki and our farewell dinner! From Wasa to Helsinki we drive via Tampere, which is the second biggest city in Finland. At Tampere market square we stop for a very special local snack... the local Musta makkara!