		One day trips from the Hotel Luossajohka to the Finnmark’s events The hotel Luossajohka can arrange the transortation and the tickets for partecipating in following events. Tana Winter Market 2-8 March. The year biggest event in Tana that includes the starting of the sleddog race. www.tana.kommune.no Finmarkslopet 7-15 . Come to Utsjoki looking for the longest and most demanding sleddog race in Europe. We are arranging the transportation to Levajoki, Sirma, Skiipagurra and Varangerboten to follow the race. Ask for our special offer for the accommodation during Finmarkslopet www.finmarkslopet.no Karasjok Easter Festival 6-12. April - Concert with Sami and Norvegian artists, snow mobile, cross. www.karport.no/festvaler Women’s nightskii competition, Båtsfjord 8-9 May at 24.00. Big natural night event. Cabare and dancing in the evening www.midnattski.com Skiippagurra Festival 3.-5. July - This music festival is folk, joik and rock’n roll! www.skiippagurrafestivalen.no Tana Market 3-19. July . Cultural week filled with event for all ages www.tana.kommune.no Nesseby Fjord Fishing Competion 11. July www.sorsidenbygdelag.com Varanger Festival - Varangerfestivalen 5-9. August - North Norrway’s largest jazz festival, established in 1982. Combination of international artists and artist from the Barents region. www.varangerfestivalen.no Vadso Festival 6-8. August - Market fair with various activities and entertainment. www.varangerfestivalen.no Polar Spectacle, Vesisaari 1-4 October - Festival for food made from king crab and other local ingridients. www.polarspectacle.no Karasjoki’s Indigenous Population Festival 10.-15. November - Cultural week where the indigenous people meet, market days etc. www.sapmi.no Blues in the Polar night, Vardo 11.-14. novembre www.bluesvintermorket.no One day cultural trips from the Hotel Luossajohka Várjjat Sámi Musea Nesseby The Sea Same Museum is located in Nesseby 80 km from Utsjoki. The museum exhibits the past and the present of costal Same culture. Opening hours: 15.6-24.8, daily from 10.00 to 18.00. Rest of the year Mon-Fri from 10.00 to 15.00 www.varjjat.org "Pikkuskitsi" Pikkuskitsi is build in an old fish factory on the see shore close to the mouth of Annijoki River, 110 km from Utsjoki and 17 km before arriving to Vesisaari. This area used to be and still is strongly populated by the Kvens and the Finnish originated language is still widely spoken. Pikkuskitsi offers good possibilities for see and river fishing, bird watching and cultural walks. Mortensnes Cultural Heritage Site Mortensnes Cultural Heritage Site is on the sea shore further 20 km from Nesseby and 100 km from Utsjoki. This Cultural Heritage site is one of the richest and most characteristic cultural heritage sites in Scandinavia. Constructed trails with new and informative signposts, in 2008, led to the monuments, which show continuous settlement from more than 10.000 years ago until recent times. www.varjjat.org Varanger Museum The distance between Utsjoki and Vesisaari is 130 km. In the Varanger Museum we are going to get acquainted with the cultural history of the Kvens in the Norwegian Lapland. The Kvens migrated, from the Finnish speaking areas of Finland and Sweden in the 18th and 19th centuries, to Ruija "the land by the Artic Ocean". Esbensengården is a trading house in aristocratic style with farm buildings from 1850.Tuomainengården is a fascinating traditional Kven and Finnish hamlet from about 1840. Exhibition ”Kven in the past, Kven in the present”. Opening 20.6-15.8, mon-fri10.00-17.00, sa-su 10.00-16.00. The rest of the year, mon-fri 10.00-15.00. www.museumsnett.no/vadsomuseet

One day trips from the Hotel Luossajohka to the Finnmark’s events

The hotel Luossajohka can arrange the transortation and the tickets for partecipating in
following events.

Tana Winter Market
2-8 March. The year biggest event in Tana that includes the starting of the sleddog race.
www.tana.kommune.no

Finmarkslopet
7-15 . Come to Utsjoki looking for the longest and most demanding sleddog race in Europe.
We are arranging the transportation to Levajoki, Sirma, Skiipagurra and Varangerboten to
follow the race. Ask for our special offer for the accommodation during Finmarkslopet
www.finmarkslopet.no

Karasjok Easter Festival
6-12. April - Concert with Sami and Norvegian artists, snow mobile, cross. www.karport.no/festvaler

Women’s nightskii competition, Båtsfjord
8-9 May at 24.00. Big natural night event. Cabare and dancing in the evening www.midnattski.com

Skiippagurra Festival
3.-5. July - This music festival is folk, joik and rock’n roll! www.skiippagurrafestivalen.no

Tana Market
3-19. July . Cultural week filled with event for all ages www.tana.kommune.no

Nesseby Fjord Fishing Competion
11. July www.sorsidenbygdelag.com

Varanger Festival - Varangerfestivalen
5-9. August - North Norrway’s largest jazz festival, established in 1982. Combination of international artists and artist from the Barents region. www.varangerfestivalen.no

Vadso Festival
6-8. August - Market fair with various activities and entertainment. www.varangerfestivalen.no

Polar Spectacle, Vesisaari
1-4 October - Festival for food made from king crab and other local ingridients. www.polarspectacle.no

Karasjoki’s Indigenous Population Festival
10.-15. November - Cultural week where the indigenous people meet, market days etc. www.sapmi.no

Blues in the Polar night, Vardo
11.-14. novembre www.bluesvintermorket.no

One day cultural trips from the Hotel Luossajohka

Várjjat Sámi Musea Nesseby

The Sea Same Museum is located in Nesseby 80 km from Utsjoki. The museum exhibits the past and the present of costal Same culture.

Opening hours: 15.6-24.8, daily from 10.00 to 18.00. Rest of the year Mon-Fri from 10.00 to 15.00 www.varjjat.org

"Pikkuskitsi"
Pikkuskitsi is build in an old fish factory on the see shore close to the mouth of Annijoki River, 110 km from Utsjoki and 17 km before arriving to Vesisaari. This area used to be and still is strongly populated by the Kvens and the Finnish originated language is still widely spoken. Pikkuskitsi offers good possibilities for see and river fishing, bird watching and cultural walks.

Mortensnes Cultural Heritage Site
Mortensnes Cultural Heritage Site is on the sea shore further 20 km from Nesseby and 100 km from Utsjoki. This Cultural Heritage site is one of the richest and most characteristic cultural heritage sites in Scandinavia. Constructed trails with new and informative signposts, in 2008, led to the monuments, which show continuous settlement from more than 10.000 years ago until recent times. www.varjjat.org

Varanger Museum
The distance between Utsjoki and Vesisaari is 130 km. In the Varanger Museum we are going to get acquainted with the cultural history of the Kvens in the Norwegian Lapland. The Kvens migrated, from the Finnish speaking areas of Finland and Sweden in the 18th and 19th centuries, to Ruija "the land by the Artic Ocean". Esbensengården is a trading house in aristocratic style with farm buildings from 1850.Tuomainengården is a fascinating traditional Kven and Finnish hamlet from about 1840.
Exhibition ”Kven in the past, Kven in the present”.
Opening 20.6-15.8, mon-fri10.00-17.00, sa-su 10.00-16.00. The rest of the year, mon-fri 10.00-15.00.
www.museumsnett.no/vadsomuseet