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5 days tour with Cape East Arctic Adventure

This is an example on a 5 days tours with Cape East Arctic Adventure. Minimum 6 persons, maximum 12. You have to get by plane to Kirkenes by yourself and will be collected at the airport in a minibus:

Day 1:

We are heading to Grense Jakobselv, passing the border station to Russia, Storskog. We are passing the oldest mountain i Norway, 2,9 million year old.

In Grense Jakobselv you will be told histories about the war in arctic and the society by the border, set in 1826.

On the way back we do make a short stop by the snow hotel in Kirkenes. You can enter if you want. It is a very special experience.

Then we are visiting the old Skolt Sàmi chapel in Neiden, 40 km from Kirkenes. Here 94 Skolt Sàmi people are buried.

We spend the night at Neiden mountain lodge.

Supper: Finnbiff, meat from reindeer. (You pay for food and drinks in Neiden)

Day 2

We start the trip on our way to Kiberg after a short story about the very dramatic evacuation of 50.000 people in oktober 1944.

We do serveral stop watching same cultur, The Varanger virgin, Roald Amundsen airship mast in Vadsø.

Supper later in Kiberg: Shrimps from The Varangerfjord.

Day 3

Get known in the fishing village, Kiberg, hiking around, see the port and the fishing boats.

Hiking at Kibergneset, Cape East, watching "Festung Kiberg" built by the German during the second world war. Visiting the Partisan-museum.

You will be told the history of Kiberg and Vardø, and the house you live in.

If the weather is good; maybe fishing in the sea and watching the midnightsun.

Supper: KingCrab

Day 4: Birdwatching at Hornøya, 3-5 hours. Visiting the witch-memorial and the Pomor-museum in Vardø.

Trip to Hamningberg, "The End of Europe". You will watch landscape and nature you never have seen before.

Supper: Cod from yesterdays fishingtrip.

Day 5:

Everything you wish. Please ask.

For example: Visiting the museum, indoor and outdoor, in Varangerbotn one hour with car from Kiberg.

You are leaving Kiberg with boat, plane or by bus.

Price:

9.000 NOK per person. (groups with 6-12 people) If you are 4 or 5, pleace ask for price.

We make an offer according to your wishes.

(Included in the price: All transport in Varanger (minibuss), guiding and storrytelling, 4 nights stay and almost all meal.)

(You pay for everything you drink and eat at restaurants or coffeshops and you also pay for visiting museum and the bird Island.)

The witch-process

The witch-hunt in Norway affected Finnmark in the worst ways. 91 people were given a death sentence and the vast majority of these were burned at bonfires. In Finnmark, and especially in Eastern Finnmark, there were about 3,000 residents, and the number of people executed for witchcraft in Finnmark was very high related to the population. Finnmark´s rates were also high up on the list of areas in Europe, where the most intense witch trials took place. Nordland, Troms and Finnmark have over 40 percent of all death sentences in Norwegian witchcraft cases. A fifth of those convicted were Sami.

In the North
The witch-hunt in Northern Norway were among the most extensive and brutal in the world. There were use of torture to force through confessions during the witch trials in Finnmark.
There is a monument/museum in Vardø that tells the horrible stories about what "witches" were accused of, how they were tortured and confessed, how they were thrown into the sea, to prove if they were witches. If they were floating, they were witches. If they were sinking down and drowned, they were not witches.
It is possible to read the judgements of all the individual victims through the open exhibition and Steilneset Memorial - The Witches Memorial in Vardø. The monument is a truly spectacular architectural building right next to the sea.

Pomor Museum
In Vardø you can visit the Pomor Museum. Here you will get to know how the traditional pomortrade between the Norwegians and the Russians took place. The Pomortrade kept on for almost 300 years, from around year 1600.
The Russians brought timber gains and grain to the Norwegians and they got fish in return.
Here you can also get to know some history about how Lenin smuggled his messages to the Bolshevik in fishbarrels, and how the rich people smuggled their valuables out of Russia after the revolution in 1917.

Partisan-museum
In Kiberg you can visit the Partisan Museum and the Partisan bauta from 1947. Two Norwegian kings have visited the bauta. King Olav`s visit in 1983 was a very important start to accept the Partisan`s war efforts. In 1992 King Harald gave the Partisans and their families the final satisfaction and respect for their work during the Second World War.
For several decades, the partisans lived close to hell, always hunted by the Norwegian Intelligence Services, trying to find Soviet spies. None were found in Kiberg, and no partisan from Kiberg were ever linked up to any spy-cases in Norway.

Wall art i Vardø
Look at the wall here

The Fortress in north
Look at the Fortress her

The House

When a lot of Norwegians immigrated to the West or to America, other Norwegians headed to the North of Norway. A young man, Ingebrigt Eriksen, travelled 1.400 km and came to Kiberg from Alstadhaug in Nordland county in the1860s as a young man. He bought the land in 1864 and built a little farm. He built the houses with timber from Russia during the time of the Pomor trade. His grandson, Trygve Eriksen, ran the farm after the Second World War and tore down the old house to build a new one. He built a barn for cows with the timber from the old houses.
Trygve Eriksen escaped from his home with the family when Norway was invaded by the Germans in 1940. They escaped to the Soviet Union in a boat together with three other families from the area. A lot of families escaped to The Soviet Union by boats. All the men came back to Norway to fight against the German army. They became partisans in Norway, operating from the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, many men died during the fight for freedom.
Trygve Eriksen was one of the most famous partisans in the North and he was decorated in the Soviet Union and in Norway for his war efforts.
I am the grandson of Trygve and will together with my daughter make your holiday a dream. We will guide you to the river, the lakes and on fishing, and we will show you the old Sami area in the arctic among other places.
There are three bedrooms for six persons. In another house we have 5 big bedrooms for maximum 10 persons.
You have access to a bathroom, a kitchen and a livingroom with a TV and wifi during your stay.

Welcome to our houses in Kiberg!