10 Outdoor Activities in Northern Ostrobothnia That You Shouldn't Miss

Salamapaja offers photography tours and workshops in Lapland and Oulu area. Tours range from 1-evening Aurora borealis chase to 1-week photography tours as well as tailored multi-day tours. Workshops concentrate on landscape, nature and night photography. Visit the website to find more information.

We are a young and fresh company located in Oulu city area. We provide experiences and more to our customers. Our personnel have extensive knowledge from guided tours and different arctic weather conditions.

Slow adventures, hiking, snowshoeing, forest yoga in arctic nature provided by nature loving local guides.

Kiteschool Lappis offers a variety of wind and watersport activities in Oulu. With us you can learn how to snowkite in the winter or kitesurf in the summer. Oulu has one of the worlds safest locations to learn this sport (trust us, we have been in many locations) and with us safety is the top priority. In the summertime you can enjoy the Oulu rivermouth with stand up paddle board. Our rentalshop is located at the small island right at the opposite of the market square (right where the small boats are parking). We allso have our surf school and rental location at Nallikari beach resort. Here you can find us in the lighthouse at the end of the beach. Here you can rent stand up paddle boards, windsurf gear, kayaks and longboards. Both of our locations offer you quided tours, lessons and instructions to all of the cool activities. So get in touch with us and experience Oulu in a way you didn't expect to :)

Adventure Apes is a full-service adventure company with a base Southern Finland (Orivesi) and Northern Finland near Lapland (Kuusamo). We specialise in authentic travel experiences that connect you with the local community, nature and each other. We offer multi-day wilderness excursions, cultural immersion experiences, Finland’s favourite seasonal sports, city tours and more.

Bear watching in the wilderness Bear-Kuusamo Ltd is the northest bear watching place in Finland. It means that we have light throughout the summer. Bear-Kuusamo lies in eastern Kuusamo near the Russian border. Our huts are new buildings, where you will get a chance to take photographs. The huts are located at half an hour's driving distance from Kuusamo town centre, Kuusamo Airport and Ruka Holiday Resort. We have a large hide, where are beds for 8 persons, a cooking possibility and a dry toilet. Bear watching season between May and September

Loihakka specialises in husky safaris. We are based in Varjakka, Oulu, Finland. In summer we also offer guided tours to the historical sawmill of the Varjakansaari Island. Our huskies love their work and we love to see them wagging their tails and eager to go. For this reason, our kennel is open on bookings only: as pack leaders, we want to make sure that our dogs have at least one full day of rest all to themselves. We have no minimum group size, so you are warmly welcome to visit our kennel on your own, too.

Stella Polaris Adventures is known for its high-quality travel experiences in the region of Ruka-Kuusamo. Our products are excellent in quality and suitable for everyone – whether you travel alone, with family and friends or in a group. We offer ready-to-book safaris from a few hours as well as tailored packages lasting several days. Our own production is completed with the services of an extensive and reliable network of partners, enabling us to design full service experiences. Even on our most daring and extreme safaris, safety comes first. Therefore all our guides are trained for the activities and are passionate about customer service.