Korouoma Canyon Frozen Waterfalls: A Full-Day Guided Tour Through Majestic Ice Formations
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173 Ratings
Rovaniemi
Embark on a full-day guided tour through the stunning Korouoma Canyon and its frozen waterfalls. Discover the beauty of the ice formations and enjoy a personalized experience with small group sizes.
Duration:
8 hours
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- Wild About Lapland - Korouoma is a 30-kilometres long and up to 130 meters deep canyon fracture valley located 110 kilometres south-east of Rovaniemi. It offers breathtaking scenery all year round, with its cliffs, rapids and waterfalls. This natural reserve is also home to rare species, and a great nature area for hikers.
In the wintertime, the waterfalls turn into fantastic ice formations which are well-known for ice-climbing and a great attraction for tourists coming from all around the world.
Your guide will come to pick you up from your accommodation in Rovaniemi and will drive you to Korouoma Canyon, where you start your hike to the waterfalls. You will have the chance to observe some of the most spectacular frozen waterfalls in Europe and enjoy the beauty of snowy nature. A typical Finnish campfire snack will also be served around the open fire to keep you warm. This is a great opportunity for your guide to show you his fire-making skills!
Snow spikes for the boots are optional but may be useful if you need more confidence when hiking down the canyon to the waterfall.
The excursion lasts around 7 hours and you will be back in Rovaniemi around 16.00.
What's Included
- Private transportation
- Hotel pick-up/drop-off for accommodations outside the city center
- All fees and taxes included
- Tea and coffee provided
- Complimentary winter boots
- Snacks available
- Professional winter clothing supplied
What's Not Included
- Alcoholic Beverages
Additional Information
Join us for a full-day guided tour of the stunning Korouoma Canyon and its impressive icebound waterfalls. Your guide will escort you through the forests to the prime viewing locations to gaze at the spectacular frozen landscapes.
To ensure the highest quality experience, we cap our activity group sizes to a maximum of 8 people. Our goal is to evade the crowds and provide an intimate, personalized experience where your guide can readily tend to your needs and inquiries. However, please bear in mind that the park is open to the public and there may be other visitors present. As we like to say, the smaller the group, the more rewarding the experience!
- Please note that this tour includes approximately 5 kilometers of walking in the nature reserve.
Location
Wild About Lapland
Rovakatu
If you do not need pick-up, please make your own way to our Wild About Lapland safari office (Rovakatu 24) for the start of the activity. An email will be sent to you at least one day prior to your activity to give you more information about the meeting time.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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Shalianna
Apr 12, 2024
White snowy hike - This tour is the complete package! First, our guide was very knowledgeable and gave us a lot of insight of the history of the forest and the waterfalls. He took pictures of us in all the best spots of the park and was always on the lookout of what we need it. As a bonus, during all our hike we had snow showers and that made the experience even more magical. Very fun tour and educational!
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Karinsu9071il
Apr 1, 2024
An unforgettable adventure in the heart of the Korouoma canyon - Janik and I spent two fantastic days with our guide Teemu and his wife Irma, the owner of the café at the entrance. It was built into a nice package that fulfilled all kinds of wishes we could imagine:
- Hike (day 1) and snow-shoeing tour (day 2) with Teemu as a guide, explaining everything about the nature and history of the canyon and beyond. We enjoyed the landscape, it’s silence and learned a lot about it. We got so much more out of these days. It was pure joy.
- The overnight stay in your kota was the best night of the one-week trip we had. Teemu took care of us to ensure that we were well fed (ok, with the help of his wife Irma), could enjoy the tent-sauna and had our privacy down in the canyon. It was unforgettable.
- The food was simply gorgeous. Irma loves cooking traditional dishes based on the best local ingredients. One can’t eat better in any 5-star restaurant. The saying “the way to the heart is through the stomach” becomes true especially as it is combined with two very warm-hearted people!
Thanks for letting us have this experience.
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Carolpe56
Mar 30, 2024
Fabulous hike - This hike was incredible. We were lucky with fresh snow but even luckier to have the most fantastic guide, Guille. Guille was so enthusiastic, very knowledgeable about the geology, the flora and fauna and demonstrated how to prepare and light a fire using bark and a flint - which we then used to cook our sausages. One member of our group, who had asthma and a dodgy knee, found the climb out of the canyon rather difficult and wished the notes had suggested bringing poles.
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Yvette_h
Mar 27, 2024
Amazing Experience - This was an amazing experience. We loved being out in nature, it was well organised, well guided and the frozen waterfalls is an absolute must to see.
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Ta2002
Mar 27, 2024
Great impressions on a hike with little effort - The trip was well organized. We were a small group of 8 people. The path to the canyon was quite difficult in places. But it was still doable thanks to the spikes provided. There are also safety ropes at the most difficult corners. But the great views and the rest with sausages and hot drinks just before the last climb made us forget the effort. All in all, it was a great day.
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Urszula_s
Mar 25, 2024
Great trip! - Great trip, very well organised and on time. We did the hike in the beautiful nature park, took some beautiful pictures, and had a great bonfire with sausages (vegan included). Would recommend!
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Aleksandra
Mar 25, 2024
Love it! - Beautiful trail across snowy forest and near ice falls. Picturesque scenery. The trail is very steep in first part, good snow shoes are must. It's definitely worth seeing
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Julia_p
Mar 25, 2024
An enjoyable experience - This was a wonderful tour! It was very well organised. We were provided with warm winter clothing, boots and crampons before the trip. The drive there took 1.5 hours. Our guide, Ale, was very knowledgeable about the forest and stopped at multiple points to give us a lot of interesting information. She was a very friendly guide and we loved having her. The canyon visit itself was a somewhat easy 5km round trip hike (but slightly steep walk at the end). We stopped at the end for a lunch prepared by the team (consisting of two sausages on potato bread, marshmallows and hot tea). Then we drove back and were back by 3.30pm. I do think if you have your own car you can probably easily do this canyon trail on your own (there were quite a few locals also doing the trail and it is well marked) however if you don’t have your own transport this is a good tour to take :)
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Flavia_d
Mar 21, 2024
Amazing - It was amazing the whole tracking the company gives you the gear you need , you will walk around 5km around the canyon all worth it then we made a stop for eating delicious sausages and roast marshmallow and drink hot chocolate, our guide Gianfranco was the best guide we could have had .thank you
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Griet_12
Mar 21, 2024
Recommended excursion with this agency - Excellent excursion. The waterfalls are a spectacle of nature and our guide, Bozo, made the whole adventure very fun, creating a spirit of harmony with the whole group, and at the same time very educational, illustrating various curiosities about Lappish nature. The route is very doable, in some sections super fun; there is only one slightly more challenging climb just before the end of the route.
An experience definitely not to be missed in Rovaniemi, which I suggest doing with this company, also because the groups are a maximum of 8 people and this makes everything more liveable and fun!
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