Welcome to one of our latest extreme bucketlist adventures, as we continue to push the limits on typical group trip destinations and activities! 

If snorkeling with majestic Orca whales sounds like your dream, you've found your tribe, because this has been at the top of our bucketlist for years, and we absolutely cannot wait to experience it with you!

We will also have the opportunity to cross off two other top bucketlist checks - witnessing the northern lights, and officially crossing into the Arctic Circle!

So grab those snow suits, sign the liability waiver (ha), and let's go on one hell of an adventure!

Here's some fun fine print to make sure you know what you're getting yourselves into!

- Most important: Orcas are wild animals and this ain't SeaWorld, so they are free to roam where they please! That being said, we can never guarantee the presence of wild animals, however the company we are using has been tracking them and visiting them every year for a very long time! Please start manifesting now that they all come to say hi to us!

- This is obviously a dangerous activity for many reasons; from swimming with predators to swimming in freezing water. Please make sure you sign the liability waiver and get the appropriate travel insurance!

- This trip does not have a fixed tour guide at all times - each activity has a guide, but during meals and down time we will not have a guide. The trip is hosted by Alyssa but please remember that she is not a tour guide :)

- This is a custom created trip and itinerary, we kindly ask that you do not post the full itinerary or details as our trips have been getting increasingly copied.

Here's our basic guidelines for the flights!

ARRIVAL: Please arrive in Tromso before the evening of November 15th so you can join the Welcome Dinner and briefing! To get to Tromso, you will likely need to layover in Oslo. We will offer add-ons in Oslo soon!

DEPART: Any time on November 21st from Tromso! We will likely add stopover add-ons in Oslo at the end of the trip as well.

Our cancellation policy is based on our local tour companies’ policies as well for timing until things like hotels and tours are not refundable, as well as our own fees for all of the admin and work we do to create these trips, and handle all of your bookings! We hope you understand! 

This is also why we make travel insurance MANDATORY, and we highly recommend getting it around the same time you book your flights. That way if a covered issue happens like a flight cancellation or delay, or you (god forbid) get sick or injured, the insurance will likely cover your trip. However, if you cancel for PERSONAL reasons, including work-related issues, financial-issues, family-issues, or fear of travel, the insurance does not cover those reasons, and neither can we, however we try to be as flexible as possible! 

UPDATE: As of 2024, we now require:

• 50% of total trip price paid by 6 months before the trip
• 100% of total trip price paid by 3 months before the trip

Below is an overview of our cancellation policy timeline for personal reasons:

• Up to 8 months before:  Payments other than deposit refunded
• Up to 6 months before: Any other payments besides deposit refunded if spot is filled 
• Up to 3 months before: Payments refunded if spot is filled only, otherwise non-refundable deposit + potential fees from tour company deducted from non-refundable/non-transferable items and admin fees
• Less than 3 months before: non-refundable

For emergency health situations; we will evaluate them on a per basis situation depending on the time of cancellation and ability to have travel insurance cover it or not.

Today you'll all arrive in Tromso, at the far north of Norway, which officially puts us inside the Arctic Circle!!

It's going to be VERY cold, so for those who arrive early, we can take a stroll around town for as long as we can handle, and then we will go find some indoor spots to hang out in.

Later we will have a cozy indoor Welcome Dinner with a briefing from our teams!

Overnight at: Home Hotel Aurora

Meals: Fika (tea and snacks), Dinner

We'll enjoy a nice, warm breakfast before gearing up and heading to our first activity in the Arctic: visiting one of the last, authentic Sami Reindeer Farms! 

The Sami people are indigenous to this area, and their main livelihood used to come from reindeer farming, meaning, yes, they eat them. And yes, that's an option to try, only for the sake of experiencing the culture. (But feel free not to, we will not be).

The main attraction though will come from feeding the cute reindeer, who have become friendly from the amount of visitors, just watch out for those antlers! We'll also be able to take a short sleigh ride! The tourism that this activity attracts actually helps lower the amount of reindeer that are killed for food, so don't feel too bad about a sleigh ride!

Inside the Sami teepee, you'll hear from the local Sami people who run the farm, and will tell you all about their culture and reindeer farming.

Then, we'll head back to the hotel to warm up, and hang out or nap before an early-ish dinner.

Naps are only mentioned because the Northern Light chases happen later at night, when it's completely dark. We usually head out around 8 or 9pm but it's depending on where they track the light activity!

Warm snowsuits and boots will be provided, but please bring the other items we send you on the packing list!

We'll spend several hours "chasing" the Northern Lights, which the guides track with radar, so we are almost guaranteed to see them! We keep chasing them until we've seen them at least a few times, which means we could end up staying out very late at night!

Towards the end of the light chase, we will be treated to a warm fire amongst the snow, hot chocolate, and some Arctic snacks!

Overnight at Home Hotel Aurora

Meals: Breakfast, Light Lunch (likely reindeer soup, bring snacks if you don't want to try it), Dinner

Since we have to wait for the night to chase the northern lights, we decided to take a little roadtrip to see the Arctic Fjords! We'll spend the day admiring the frozen fauna, then will come back and warm up before our next light chase!

Overnight at Home Hotel Aurora

Meals: Breakfast, Fika, Dinner

 We have quite the journey to get to the Orcas, but that's the length great travelers will go to to see these majestic creatures in the wild rather than an aquarium!

We'll need to wake up pretty early to start our drive across the Arctic highway, and then we'll likely need to take a ferry to get to the area where the Orcas typically go each year.

Something very important to note is the word "typically". Meaning they can change locations each year, which is why we can't give a specific destination just yet, but either way, we will go to where they are!

Expect around 6 hours of traveling just to get there, so depending on the time we arrive, we might be able to add a visit to a Husky sled dog farm, or perhaps just go somewhere warm, cozy, and off the beaten track!

Please note, the island/town we are staying in (Skjervoy) is VERY SMALL, and there's only one restaurant there. So we might go to the one restaurant tonight or grocery shopping and having a little BBQ at our little "beachfront homes"!

Overnight at Skjervoy Lodge

Meals: Breakfast

Today is hopefully the big day! We will wake up early, give ourselves some major pep talks, suit up in dry suits, and heat out onto the 12 person boat in hopes of achieving our bucketlist checks of SWIMMING WITH ORCAS!!

Please start manifesting this all happens easily and smoothly, because our major disclaimers include the weather and wild animals being unpredictable! However, this particular company has been offering this trip for many years, and typically has successful results!

You don't need to be a professional free driver, but you should definitely have some pretty solid swimming skills, and taking a free diving course would also be a great idea to help you stay in the water longer.

We'll be wearing thick dry suits, which means you can't dive down anyway since they're so buoyant , but having the breathing skills will help with the adrenaline rush of both seeing these beautiful creatures...and feeling the extreme cold!!

NOTE: If you do NOT want to get in the water, that's Ok! You can still observe the Orcas from the boat!

After what we hope is a successful swim, we will head back to our accommodation to warm up, and spend the evening reveling in our amazing experiences, hopefully with some wine!

At the moment we have scheduled to stay another night in this area just in case we do not see the Orcas on the first day, and going out again the next day is an option!

Tour location: Industriveien 6, 9180 in Skjervoy

Overnight in Skervjoy Lodge

Meals: We can't include meals at the homes because there is not the option to do so, therefore we will stop at a grocery store on the way there to buy some things for breakfast and other meals/snacks.

Today we will have the option to do the second additional orca snorkel (cost depends on how many join in)! For those who do not want to participate, you can sleep in and hang back at the lodge, or add-on an optional activity, like a fjord cruise.

NOTE: The whale trips are only 4 hours long, so if you hang back, it might not be enough time for another activity, but plenty of time to sleep in, relax, and pack up!

Then we will make the long journey back and we will sleep in Tromso to make sure you are back in time for your flights tomorrow!

Overnight at Hotel Aurora

Meals: Fika, Dinner

Sadly it's time to go, but hopefully with some epic new memories, and off to a warmer destination!

We will transport you to the airport any time today! Thank you for joining us!