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| Arctic Dog Sled Odyssey |
Experience the culture and untamed beauty of the Arctic by means of traditional dog sledding. With a team of rugged dogs, descendants of High Arctic breeds that date back several thousand years, you can explore the spectacular fiords north of the Arctic Circle on the East coast of Canada’s Baffin Island or the mixed conifer and deciduous taiga forests, picturesque mountains, and rugged tundra landscapes of Canada’s Northwest Territories or Arctic Scandinavia.
If you choose Baffin Island, under the guidance of your Inuit guide, you will design and customize your trip to meet specific wishes. Seek out and photograph the magnificent ice and snow-locked landscape, including the region's towering cliffs and a natural crucifix, which rise shear from the sea to over 3,500 feet, and gigantic icebergs frozen in the ice-pack. Witness Arctic wildlife first-hand, including polar bear, seal, ptarmigan, and in late spring, the flurry of Arctic avian that fly north along the floe edge to nest. Try ice fishing for grouper or the famous Arctic Char.
In Canada’s Northwest Territories, you mush to or from a first-class wilderness lodge, where your dog sled journey begins or ends. Drive your team on and along any number lakes to the north of Great Slave Lake, and on historic trappers trails in the Boreal Forest. En route, you have a good chance of sighting caribou herds, and potentially sign of moose, wolf, lynx , and wolverine. At night, witness the full display of the Aurora Borealis – simply as good it gets!
Should the mixed forests and mountainous tundra landscapes of Arctic Scandinavia be more attune with your unique interests, you will enter Sweden’s remote taiga, home of the Sami people through Kiruna. In a land where the ancient livelihood of reindeer herding continues to this day, you will mush your own team of huskies through the landscapes of the far north past mammals that may include lynx, moose, reindeer, fox and wolverine. Your journey culminates in the region of the Sami homeland where you will meet the people and learn their ways.
Relax, put away your watch, and enjoy the laid-back lifestyle of the far north. Sleep in igloos, commune with your hearty Arctic dogs, and lie beneath the brilliance of the Aurora Borealis for an experience that only the unique solitude of the Arctic can bestow.
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