Tours
Lapland Tour
The trip to Muonio Harriniva, Lapland, for long-term students will take place annually at the turn of the month in November – December. Length of the tour is 4-5 days. There will be cross-country skiing, downhill skiing, snowboarding, husky and reindeer rides, and snow-shoe walking in our program. We will also visit the Santa Claus Village on our way back. The price of the 2022 tour was about 700 euros. The trip is an optional part of the youth exchange program and the students pay the cost themselves.
Bus routes and schedules, student instructions, and the program will be published in these pages and you will find them here before the tour.
There will be a number of buses leaving from different bus stations in the south of Finland. The students choose the bus that stops the closest to their home. The detailed routes and schedules will be published below before the tour.
Lapland Tour 2023
- Time: 21 – 26 November, 2023.
- Documents and Forms (to be published in Autumn 2023)
- Tour letter to students, host families, and counsellors
- Kirje isäntäperheille ja nuorisovaihtoasiamiehille
- Tour program
- Tutor Letter (including what to pack for the Tour)
- Host club recommendation form (.docx)
- Bus routes, timetables and Rotary contacts in the buses
- Bus 1: Espoo – HarriNiva via western Finland
- Bus 2: Helsinki – HarriNiva via central Finland
- Bus 3: Porvoo – HarriNiva via eastern Finland
The Tour is organized by the Finnish-Estonian Multidistrict organization.
Stockholm Tour
Stockholm Tour is made of a ferry trip from Finland to Swedish capital Stockholm, sight-seeing there and another ferry trip back home to Finland. You will have an extraordinary opportunity see beautiful Stockholm and visit interesting places there – and of course in the best possible company, with your inbound mates. The price of the tour consists of transportation by ferries, hotel accommodations, meals and entrance fees to different attractions we’ll be visiting. The price of the 2023 tour was about 700 euros.
This is an optional event and the students attending the Stockholm Tour are required to pay the cost themselves.
Stockholm Tour 2024
- Time: Dates to be announced later
- Documents and Forms
- Student letter
- Payment instructions
- Tour program
- Host club recommendation (.docx)
The Tour is organized by the Finnish-Estonian Multidistrict organization.
More information on the Stockholm Tour from our Tour leaders.
EuroTour
Long-term inbound students are welcome to join the EuroTour in June. You will have an extraordinary opportunity to travel through the Baltic countries and Central Europe and visit interesting cities and places – and of course in the best possible company, with your inbound mates. During about two weeks we’ll visit several countries. We’ll have nice buses and good hotels. The price of the tour consists of transportation by buses and ferries, hotel accommodations, breakfasts, and lunches or dinners, entrance fees to different attractions we’ll be visiting during the tour, and the return flight to Helsinki. The price of the 2023 tour was 2 850 euros.
This is an optional event and the students attending the EuroTour are required to pay the cost themselves.
EuroTour 2024
- Time: Dates to be announced later
- Documents and Forms
- Student letter
- Host club recommendation (.docx)
- Payment instructions
- Tour program
- Travel instructions
- Video that gives a summary of the 2023 tour. Note that the video is silent, no sounds.
The Tour is organized by the Finnish-Estonian Multidistrict organization.
See EuroTour 2023 stories and pictures in Instagram #finnisheurotour23.
Read about Felicity’s experiences from the EuroTour 2018 here.
