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Sami Culture.

Don’t miss the opportunity to visit a Saami family when you are visiting Lapland. The Saami People are Laplands original inhabitants. We arrange a meeting with genuine Lappish family. The family will show you their culture, the care taking of the reindeers and can offer a lot of other activities. Challenge you friends or family in a lasso throwing competition, go on a sled ride after the reindeers or just relax around the campfire and listen to the beautiful Saami song with hot cup of coffee made from a sooty coffee pot over an open fire. You will meet the reindeers and their calves born earlier in the spring.

The tour start at Hemavan Outdoor and we go by car to the family. The activity takes about two and a half-hour and is well worth a visit when you are in Lapland.

Renar i Lappland
Kaffekokning
Samer i Lappland


The Saami

The Saami followed the melting of the inland ice and entered Lapland for about 8000 years ago. Their origin area reaches from the peninsula of Kola to northern Norway, northern Sweden and northern Finland.

This area is called Sápmi (the land of the Laplanders). Today only 10% of the Laplanders make their living by care taking of the reindeers.

The reindeer

The reindeer is very common in Lapland. Almost all the reindeers are owned by the Lapps, but there are some wild reindeers too. In the winter their food contains mostly of lichen and in the summer they eat grass, leaves and mushrooms.

The reindeers are very important for the Lapps. It gives them meat and milk, skin for their clothes and horn for their handicraft.

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