By Ashley Gibbins on Tuesday, 07 August 2018
Category: Europe

Foraging in Arctic Sweden

Arctic travel experts from Off the Map Travel have launched a Fall into Foraging travel experience in Arctic Sweden this autumn.

This will allow guests will learn vital wilderness skills, and collect ingredients across the region, to be used in a specially prepared Arctic dinner on the final evening.

This new food and wilderness experience is the Brändön Lodge, a traditional log-built lodge in the trees on the coast line east of Lulea.

From here a professional local guide will test guests Arctic wilderness skills and impart knowledge and techniques passed from generation-to-generation.

With its wildlife and wilderness, the Lapland region of Sweden is home to some of the fine foraging and fishing opportunities.

There will be the chance to learn key survival skills including :

  • building a fire using only what is found in nature
  • examining fresh animal tracks, and
  • identifying the best place to set up camp.
  • As part of the new itinerary guests will join a scenic boat tour around the coast to catch more ingredients for the final feast.

    Continuing around the coast, the boat will dock at Jopikgården.

    A return journey the following day will head to some of the best wildlife spots on the coast with seals bathing in the Autumn sunshine and reindeer foraging in the overgrowth around the coast.

    Useful links

    www.offthemap.travel