Arctic Ice Roads Adventure for SUV's (7 Days)

Day 1: Arrival and city excursion in Murmansk
Arrival at Murmansk airport. Transfer to the centre of Murmansk city. Depending on arrival time a 4 hour excursion in Murmansk including visit on World’s first Nuclear Icebreaker Lenin. Check-in in the hotel. Dinner on your own in a recommended restaurant or café. Overnight in the hotel. (-/-/-)

Day 2: Murmansk - Siberian Husky Farm - Monchegorsk (250 km)
Breakfast. Collect your SUV and after a briefing drive to a Siberian Husky Farm in the centre of Murmansk region. Lunch, excursion and short husky sledge ride at the husky farm. Continuing to Monchegorsk. Check-in a hotel. Dinner on your own in a recommended restaurant or café.
If there is a good broadcast you can go for Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) watching.
Cleaned roads: 100 km, Icy roads: 150 km. (B/L/-).

Day 3: Monchegorsk - Varzuga on the White Sea (360 km)
Drive along the White Sea coast to Varzuga village. On the way visit the Pomor village Kashkarantsy on the shore of the frozen White Sea. You can try out some snowy roads to the White Sea shore. Lunch in a recommended café on the way on your own. Arrival at Varzuga village. Dinner, sauna and overnight in a cosy blockhouse hotel with self-catering.
If there is a good broadcast you can go for Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) watching.
Cleaned roads: 120 km, Icy roads: 240 km. (B/-/D).

Day 4: Varzuga - Kirovsk (on the foot of Khibiny Tundra) (380 km)
Breakfast on your own. Drive to Kirovsk city on the foot of Khibiny Mountains. Visit the Mineralogical and Mining museum. It shows the history of Kirovsk city. Drive to a Health-hotel on the foot of Khibiny Tundra for check-in and overnight. Dinner in the restaurant.
If there is a good broadcast you can go for Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) watching.
Cleaned roads: 120 km, Icy roads: 160 km (-/-/D).

Day 5: Snow village and Snowmobile safari in Khibiny Tundra
Breakfast. Small hike to our safari centre for a spectacular 4 hour snowmobile safari in the beautiful Khibiny Mountain landscape. Lunch on your own in the restaurant of the health-hotel or café of Snow Village. After lunch possibility to explore the Snow Village, a huge labyrinth made of snow with ice sculptures and snow carvings. Drive to Murmansk for check-in the hotel. Dinner on your own in a recommended restaurant or café.
If there is a good broadcast you can go for Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) watching.
Cleaned roads: 100 km, Icy roads: 150 km. (B/-/-).

Day 6: Day trip to Teriberka village and Barents Sea
After breakfast you drive to Teriberka village on the Barents sea shore. This is an interesting and beautiful 120 km long icy road through the white tundra. You can explore Teriberka village (known since the year 1523) and visit the Barents Sea. With good weather conditions you can visit a beautiful (frozen) waterfall which falls directly into the Arctic Ocean. Teriberka became again known after the film "Leviathan" from producer Alexei Zvyagintsev in 2015. Lunch is reserved for you in a hotel near the sea shore. Drive back to Murmansk city. Drop off the car. Dinner on your own in a recommended restaurant. Overnight at the hotel. If there is a good broadcast you can go for Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) watching.
Cleaned roads: 30 km, Icy roads: 240 km. (B/L/-).

Day 7: Time to say Farewell Arctic Roads and Russia
Breakfast. Depending on departure time excursion in Murmansk city, if there was no possibility on the first day. Transfer to airport. (B/-/-)

• Excursion to a Saami – village.
• Varzuga: Visit to the Uspenkaya Stave church (anno 1674).
• Information about 'Snow village' near Kirovsk.
• Information about snowmobile safaris in Khibiny Tundra.