articmedia day tours

I have spent 4 fantastic days with Articmedia in July 2013 and the overall experience was fantastic! This is the place where everything started in Finland with bear watching and photography (many years ago). So you get the opportunity to go to 4 different places (whcih I did since I had 4 nights here) and be for the night in a specially designed photographic hide (you can be alone in some or more in others). Every place brings different opportunities (and this probably change along with different seasons as does the forest). In 4 nights I have been able to see many bears, 3 wolves and 2 wolverines and that was a thrilling experience for a wildlife lover and photographer like me. The hides are very well designed and you can use long tele-lens (400mm, 500mm or 600mm) in very steady and comfortable conditions. Besides the hide, there is a base camp in Kuikka. This is a very nice old farm that has been reconverted to cater with tourists needs. I found it very good to relax and sleep after the short night in the hide (in July there is barely 3 to 4 hours darkness and bears and wolverines got really active at night during my stay so kind of get tired afterwards). You can also enjoy a short walk around and look for some of the boreal birds living here! The food was also very good and I loved the ambiance of "unpretentious wildlife lovers" that I found here! Thanks a lot to Sami and Anu (and Lassi that I briefly saw) for my stay! I'm pretty sure I will come-back someday!