Mountain bike tour in Russian Lapland

We invite you to join on this guided mountain bike tour with luggage transport in Russian Lapland; the centre of Kola Peninsula. Kola Travel

Biking tour on Kola Peninsula Taiga The centre of Kola Peninsula

Biking tour on Kola Peninsula Taiga with guide!

Biking tour on Kola Peninsula Taiga with luggage transport

Biking tour on Kola Peninsula Taiga including prepared meals

Biking tour on Kola Peninsula Taiga including accommodations Saami Sot House (Vezha)

Biking tour on Kola Peninsula Taiga Tast pure nature on Kola Peninsula

Mountain bike tour in Russian Lapland

We invite you to join on this guided mountain bike tour with luggage transport in Russian Lapland; the centre of Kola Peninsula. An unusual bicycle journey through polar forests and beautiful hills to get acquainted with the interesting sights of the Kola Peninsula. Having visited small villages you will admire a picturesque nature of the Kola Peninsula.

The cycling days you have to go in the pedals for climbing small hills, but you can also enjoy the downhill parts. Sometimes you have to cross shallow waters and stony parts. You can bring your own bicycle or you can rent mountain bikes from us. The bicycle has to be an all-terrain or hydride type with at least 21 gears. During the tour your luggage will be transported by 4x4 vehicle.

The overnights will be in our wooden house (lumberjack guesthouse) and our traditional Lappish Sot house (Vezha). With groups a guide is cycling with the group. Individuals bike alone and your guide (who serve the luggage transport) will wait on several points during the route and supply you with drinks, food and all necessary things.

We can meet you at any airport or railway station in Russia as well as in Finland or Norway. By your request we help you to choose the best and suitable way to come to us.

Highlights Mountain bike tour in Russian Lapland. We invite you to join on this guided mountain bike tour with luggage transport in Russian Lapland; the centre of Kola Peninsula. Kola Travel

Fantastic rich nature of the Murmansk region
Huge dense forests
Ancient, remote and deserted villages
Remains of penal camps from the Stalin era (gulags)
Stalinist (forest) roads
Sleeping in a Saami Sot house around a campfire
Experience midnight sun from late May to early August
Golden Autumn from third week of August and later
Northern lights (Aurora Borealis) from third week of August and later

Details Mountain bike tour in Russian Lapland. We invite you to join on this guided mountain bike tour with luggage transport in Russian Lapland; the centre of Kola Peninsula. Kola Travel

Mountain bike tour in Russian Lapland

Accommodation:

3 nights in more person room in a guest house
2 nights in more person in a Saami Sot house

Level: The participant must have experience in long distances biking in hilly and stony areas and must have a good condition. Knowledge about repairing bicycle on the route is preferable.

Group size: 2-11 persons (international participation possible)

Duration: 6 days

Dates: On request from 15th of June to 15th of September.

Price: Prices are depending on group size and rouble exchange rate. Please contact us for an up-to-date proposal.

Price includes:

accommodation
meals during the cycling tour
transfer by off-road vehicle from Apatity railway station to Oktyabrsky village and back
luggage transport
experienced local guide and English interpreter
visa invitation
Migration card registration

Documents: Passport must be valid at least 6 months after date of return. A Russian visa is required for tourists from most countries. See your country’s Russian consulate or embassy for details. We handle the tourist invitation.

Insurance: The participant must possess medical insurance that at very least covers the European part of the Russian Federation.

Itinerary Mountain bike tour in Russian Lapland. We invite you to join on this guided mountain bike tour with luggage transport in Russian Lapland; the centre of Kola Peninsula. Kola Travel

Mountain bike tour in Russian Lapland

Day 1: Meeting at Apatity railway station and transfer to a lumberjack guesthouse "Shining Khibiny" located in a small village close to Kirovsk city. Dinner, sauna. Overnight in more person rooms.

Day 2: After breakfast we start our cycling route going via a gravel road. We cycle through dense forests, cross very small left villages and pass many lakes and rivers with beautiful views. The lunch is on the route. After 48 km we reach an old small village where our traditional Lappish Sot house (Vezha) is located. We enjoy the banya (Russian sauna) and have a tasty dinner. Overnight in Vezha on reindeer fur. Cycling distance: 48 km unpaved road.

Day 3: After breakfast we start our cycling route to a forest lake through the picturesque forest landscape. Lunch on the lake shore. Everybody can try luck in fishing. In the evening we come back. Dinner, sauna. Overnight in Vezha. Cycling distance: 30 km unpaved road.

Day 4: After breakfast we cycle back to guesthouse "Shining Khibiny". Lunch on the way. Dinner and sauna upon arrival. Overnight in the base. Cycling distance: 48 km unpaved road.

Day 5: Breakfast. Today our way is to a left area where the rest of a Stalinist camp is located. The old forest road is going trough picturesque landscape, through flower glades on places of ex-villages. We will see ruins of old railway built by camp prisoners, rest of houses and fences of barbed wire. Lunch on a way. Coming back in evening. Dinner, overnight. Cycling distance: 40 km unpaved road.

Day 6: Breakfast. We are waited by the highest mountains of Kola. These are Khibiny Mountains. After 35 km of asphalt we take a 25 km mountain road. We will see impressionable rocks, crystal waterfall and mystic mountain lake; we even can partly drive through its water! Lunch on the lake shore. Transfer to the railway station of Apatity by our Army bus.

Cycling distance: 60 km (asphalt: 35 km and unpaved road: 25 km)

Statistics Mountain bike tour in Russian Lapland. We invite you to join on this guided mountain bike tour with luggage transport in Russian Lapland; the centre of Kola Peninsula. Kola Travel

Total length:	230 km	Largest daily cycling distance:	45 km
Asphalt roads:	35 km	Average daily cycling distance:	230 km
Unpaved roads:	195 km	Lowest point of the route:	170 meter
Smallest daily cycling distance:	30 km	Highest point of the route:	500 meter
Amount of active cycling days:	5 days

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Mountain bike tour in Russian Lapland. We invite you to join on this guided mountain bike tour with luggage transport in Russian Lapland; the centre of Kola Peninsula. Kola Travel

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This mountain bike tour in Russian Lapland can be extended with the following optionals::

ATB Bikes: EUR 15,-- per day
Murmansk:
- Tickets for museums and museum excursions cost between RUB 25,-- and RUB 400,-- per person.
- Entrance ticket to Atomic Icebreaker to join an excursion in Russian language: RUR 150 pp. Individual excursion to Atomic Icebreaker with a lecture in English language can be arranged.
- City excursions in Hero city Murmansk.
- Trip to Husky Farm close to Murmansk (year round).
- Trip to Saami settlement close to Lovozero.
- Trip to Teriberka and the Barents sea shore.
- Trip to Husky Park close to Lovozero (only in winter).
- Trip to Lovozero village; Capital of the Saami.
Train/plane/bus tickets in or outside Russian Federation.
Transfers from/to KuusamoIvalo/Rovaniemi and Kirkenes airports.