Sweden Winter Wilderness School Trips
Arctic Direct
This fantastic trip offers great opportunity to see the Northern Lights as well as adventure and personal self-development. A real stand out experience for safe adventure and lots of fun.Package with flights from £1,845pp based on 30 + 3 free teachers
Sample Itinerary:
Day 1 - Arrival Day
- Outbound flights
- Airport pick up and issue of Thermal suits and boots
- Opportunity to have a look around the town and purchase snacks before heading to the wildeness camp tomorrow
- When walking around there's always possibility to see the northern lights so you your eyes open!
- Dinner
Day 2 - Arrival Day
- Visit to Iron Ore Mine - Learn about Europe's biggest Iron Ore mine and how they strive to be one of the cleanest and most sustainable mines on the planet. Includes talk on moving a city allowing further mining without risk of subsidence
- Dinner
- Transfer to Wilderness camp – the Aurora camp features a number of cabins with electricity and running water or indoor compost toilets. The camp is perfect for viewing the Northern Lights as it is away from most light pollution and you just need to step outside to be perfectly placed to see the aurora if they show. Our guide is on hand to take images of students and teachers with the aurora if they show.
- Dinner
- Afternoon Igloo building workshop – learn to build a snow igloo as well as a personal snow shelter. Whilst having fun we learn one of the basics of Arctic survival as well as teamwork to build a safe igloo shelter
- Group 1 sleep in igloos at the camp using thermal sleeping bags - with dining hall as emergency back up. Other group in cabins
Day 3 - Key Themes: Sustainability, Eco-Design and Technology, Environment.
- Breakfast
- Morning guided tour to the Ice Hotel – ICEHOTEL is now in its 35th year and has adapted to the increasing climate threat by building an ICEHOTEL 365 – a permanent ICEHOTEL which is kept frozen in the summer using solar panels to harness the midnight sun. We learn about the design and have opportunity to tour the Art rooms
- Dinner
- Group 2 sleep in igloos at the camp using thermal sleeping bags - with dining hall as emergency back up. Other group in cabins
Day 4 - Key Themes: Adventure, Team Work
- Breakfast
- Morning Musher for a day: Husky driving experience. Our most popular activity in the area, Older children will drive a small team of dogs and younger students can be driven by a guide. We stop along the way for lunch in a wilderness camp. Once back at the kennel there is plenty of time for pictures with our fluffy friends
- Dinner
- Check in to Cabins
- Opportunity to sledge at the resort – there is a large hill behind the cabins and sledges are available for some high-speed fun. There are also kick sledges to try out this traditional means of transport
- Pizza party – we celebrate our last night with a pizza part in town – a 10 minute walk from the cabins. There is also possibility for some last minute souvenir shopping
Day 5 - Departure Day
- Breakfast
- Transfer to the airport for your trip home
There are a selection of optional extras which can be added onto this tour including a visit to IRF (Swedish Institute for Space Physics), recommended for children from 14 years the Swedish institute of Space Physics. A Snowmobile-sled tour (non-driving) out into the wilderness across the frozen river Torne where we will stop and drill holes in the ice to try Ice fishing.
Package with flights from £1,845pp based on 30 + 3 free teachers
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Which Curriculum Subjects do we cater for?
Science
Learn about the Northern Lights and also optional visit to the Swedish Institute of Space Physics. The Institude covers Space physicsm Atmospheric physics and space technology. The institute is primarily Doctoral and post doctoral research and for this reson it does tend to be more suitable for 15+ but there is opportunity to enjoy a presentation and then be given a tour of the complex and talk with some of the students.
Geography
Opportunity to meet Sami herdspeople and how people settled in the far north thousands of years ago. The unique and harsh climate will be experienced and this puts a sharp focus to explore how the Sami coped with these conditions long before modern technologies. more than 250km north of the Arctic Circle it allows for academic and casual considerations as to what it is and means to be so far north from Polar night and midnight sun to the temperature variations that occur.
Geology
Possibility to visit Europe's biggest Iron Ore mine and learn about how they prode themselves on their green credentials. Examine how the expansion of the mine has resulted in the decision for the mine to pay to move an entire city to allow safe mining and protect the town from subsidence.
Environmental Geography
Sports Tours
Cultural
Expedition
Activities
What size groups do we cater for?
10-30
Who are Arctic Direct?
Offering an unparalleled opportunity to see the Northern Lights, this package is perfect for schools looking to get away from the standard Ski holiday. With the perfect balance of adventure, challenge, information and learning – our school trips to Sweden are really able to tick all of your educational, service, inspirational and fun boxes. £10m Public liability.
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