After Brit-Marie serves us a Sami breakfast, she’ll show us the museum she has built which portrays interesting aspects of Sami culture.

A bus will pick us up and take us to a nearby village, the home of our guide Nils’ parents, Nedre Soppero. You will have a brief opportunity to browse and shop for Sami handicrafts there. Then we’ll drive (2 hrs.) to Kiruna for lunch at the Scandic Ferrum hotel restaurant and be on our way (2 hrs. drive) to Riksgransen, a Swedish spa resort in the mountains. Riksgransen is located at a gorgeous location on the border of Norway, world-renowned for excellent skiing and off-piste slopes (off-piste slopes are un-maintained slopes on open mountain faces).

We should arrive in Riksgransen at 4 or 5 in the evening. Riksgransen is both the name of the small town as well as the resort hotel where we will stay. To see more about this hotel, take a look at their website http://www.riksgransen.nu (although some of this website is in English, to browse the pictures you have to click on the Swedish menu on the left.) After settling into your room, I recommend a short hike in the mountains before dinner.

I expect you’ll thoroughly enjoy our buffet dinner in the award winning restaurant, Lapplandia, located in the hotel. In addition to excellent, beautifully prepared food, the restaurant offers great service and a fantastic mountain view.

After dinner you can relax in the Jacuzzi or the sauna, take a swim in the pool, or enjoy the fresh winter air from the warmth of the hot tub on the open porch.

Tonight half of the tour guests will get a massage at the Spa (the other half of the guests will be given a massage the following night). I felt like a new man after a relaxing massage and a bubble bath – I highly recommend it!

In the evening you can have some drinks at the Hotel's After Ski bar/night club, called Grönan.