Autumn - Culinary Luleå
Duration
7 nights
Price
Sek xxx per person
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Culture and Culinary
Luleå Autumn Culinary Adventure
This exclusive Autumn culinary itinerary is an example including Elite Hotel Luleå, Brändön Lodge, Arctic Retreat and the Treehotel and is best experienced from 25 Aug to 15 Oct.
The food culture of Swedish Lapland is amazing and this itinerary is designed to help you to find the best of this in the Luleå region. The restaurants of the town of Luleå are servicing an ever more food interested clientele of international and local guests. Here you will find a cosmopolitan atmosphere even though we are far north close to the arctic circle. Brändön Lodge, overlooking the island of the Luleå archipelago, has a great reputation for quality local produce from the farm or the forest. Arctic Retreat is a small and luxurious log cabin lodge on the edge of the Råne river with only four cabins and one of the cosiest restaurants that we know of. Treehotel is famous for its design and this extends to the restaurant where the chefs create some of the best fine dining in the country.
All this plus the opportunity for some fun and educational nature based activities with local guides will help ensure a great break to the Arctic region.
Itinerary
Day 1: Arrival in Luleå - Elite Hotel Luleå
You will be met at the airport by a local guide and transferred into the town of Luleå where your room is waiting at the Elite Hotel. We have also booked for you this evening a table at one of Luleå’s best restaurants. An evening walk along the river or a visit to the shopping area in the main street are out recommendations for the afternoon.
Overnight, Std Double Elite Hotel Luleå
Day 2: Brändön Lodge
Your guide will pick you up after breakfast for the transfer to the coast of the Swedish Lapland Archipelago. Brändön Lodge has 15 small timber cabins surrounding a large log timber cabin restaurant and all over look the many islands off the coast.
A fabulous outdoor lunch is included in todays Nordic Wilderness Skills activity where you will learn about the region, its nature and wild life.
Dinner is a 3 course meal in the Brändön Lodge Restaurant.
Overnight Cabin Brändön Lodge FB
Day 3: Brändön Lodge
You can add to the program one or more of several activity options from Brändön lodge:
- Seal safari by boat
- Boat tour to an island with outdoor lunch
- Evening northern lights tour
Dinner is a 3 course meal in the Brändön Lodge Restaurant.
Overnight Cabin Brändön Lodge FB
Day 4: Arctic Retreat
This morning you will enjoy a guided one hour transfer though the forest and along the Råne river valley to the fabulous Arctic Retreat.
Owned by a local family, this lodge with four amazing timber log cabins has a back to nature feeling with delicious home cuisine, warm hospitality in a beautiful setting.
Regardless of the days adventures a warm dip in your private hot tub and/or a Swedish Sauna and a delicious meal await you in the evening.
Dinner is a 3 course meal in the small cosy log cabin Restaurant.
Overnight Cabin Arctic Retreat FB
Day 5: Arctic Retreat
In the morning you will join a private Canoe tour along the rivers and lakes flowing past Arctic Retreat and surrounded by the vast forest. This 4-hour tour includes a delicious outdoor lunch. Wildlife including reindeer and moose are always a possibility in the nature along the river valley.
The afternoon is yours to enjoy and relax. An important part of the experience at Arctic Retreat.
Tonight you will enjoy a fabulous 3 course dinner with in our Aurora Lookout Cabin with a view over the rapids of the river. Here your guide will cook a delicious dinner while looking out through the see though the glass for the northern lights.
If you are lucky you may also even catch a glimpse of the lights later in the evening sitting, in the jacuzzi on the front deck of your log timber cabin.
Overnight Cabin Arctic Retreat FB
Day 6: Journey to Treehotel
After breakfast your guide will transfer you to the famous Treehotel.
The Treehotel is amazing from any angle. Your hosts have created a magical range of 7 very different hotel rooms in the trees in the forest near the village of Harads over looking the Luleå river. There is an endless joy living so close to nature and reliving your childhood dreams. The rooms at Treehotel are all independently created by some of Scandinavia’s most famous architects. We will help you choose the right room and view for you.
In the afternoon we have arranged a fun culinary experience
Beer culture with a Swedish Lapland flavour
Join Gideon Swinkels in Klusån for an exciting beer tasting. He belongs to a family of Dutch brewers and he blends knowledge and tradition with the flavours and fragrances of Swedish Lapland. Your visit will be an experience for all senses where you can taste, smell and learn what happens when you mix hops, various malts and nature´s own ingredients to make a unique beer. The tasting will be held in a cosy indoor environment. Includes: Beer guide, ingredients, tasting, snacks, transfer.
Your dinner experience today is in the the Treehotel restaurant. It offers an exceptional standard of cuisine where the taste is always amazing.
Overnight Cabin Treehotel FB
Day 7: Treehotel
Today at Treehotel there are is a great range of activities to choose from in the morning or just relax in your amazing Tree room.
In the afternoon we have a very special tasting experience prior to dinner.
Treehotel flavour tour
Learn and taste Lapland´s nature & culture with Eva Gunnare, culture guide, food connoisseur and specialist in local wild herbs and berries. On this all year tour we have a short walk through the beautiful pine and the birch forest to the meadows surrounding the Treehotel, discovering the flavours from the nature. Then we will end up in the warm restaurant where Eva will serve more homemade treats made from her foraged treasures.
Eva has lived with the reindeer herders for many years and experienced the traditions from having a life close to the nature. In this tasty tour she wants to give you an understanding about the wonderful arctic everyday life.
Your main meal in the evening is an outdoor dinner experience where your guide will serve you a fabulous 3 course dinner.
Overnight Cabin Treehotel FB
Day 8: Journey home from Luleå
After a fond farewell to the Treehotel you will transfer to the Luleå Airport.
Price Includes:
- All transfers
- Full board (except first dinner in Luleå)
- 2 x Nights Cabin accommodation at Brändön Lodge, FB
- 2 x Nights Cabin accommodation at Arctic Retreat
- 2 x Nights Hotel room or guest house accommodation at Treehotel
- 1 x Nordic Wilderness skills
- 1 x Guided Canoe tour
- 1 x Beer culture experience
- 1 x Treehotel Flavour tour
Price Excludes:
- Personal Insurance
- Flights
- Upgrades in the form of accommodation or activities
- Soft drinks and alcoholic beverages
Note:
All activities are part of a small group tour unless noted as private.
Price quoted is an example only, subject to availability and supplier changes and should be reconfirmed before formal a quote to clients.
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