Sami Mountain Trek in Swedish Lapland

This is our first ride of the trail. We ride through the forest, over swamps and up to the bare mountain. You get a horse which suits you. 

We ride on the south side of the Kalix river and arrive to our overnight place in the afternoon. During the tour we have an extra horse carrying the food and other things, but everyone carries her/his own personal things in saddle-bags on the own horse.

Both nights we sleep in a Sami tepee (lávvu) where we sleep in sleeping bags round the fireplace. In the tepee we can make a fire if we want to.

It is good if you have some experience of camping. The food we cook together over a fire. The food is exclusive specialties from this area, for example reindeer meat and fish prepared in a traditional way. 

After breakfast we ride a day tour over the bare mountain with a fantastic view. Mostly we ride in pathless terrain and on small tracks so we get to know the sure-footed Icelandic horses. We can ride in different tempos depending of the terrain.

On the tour we help each other with the horses and with camp chores. Sometimes we need to lead the horses when the terrain demands it. We'll overnight camping.

On some of the tours on this day we go west to Ratekjokk where we sleep in a cabin. 

We finish the riding in the afternoon at the same place like we started the tour and from there back to the farm by car. For washing ourselves we use the clean water in the mountain creeks. Because we are riding in a mountain area we have sometimes to change the route because of the weather.

We'll sleep on our farm.

On some of the tours on this day there is a dayride or ride to Ratekjokk. Then we leave the horses there and cross the Kalix river by boat and then with car back to our farm (can also be ridden in the other direction).

After breakfst we will transfer you to Kiruna.