An Arctic adventure in Finnish Lapland

From snowmobile safaris to cross-country skiing, there’s more to Lapland than a trip to see Santa

A reindeer safari at Salla Wilderness Park in Arctic Finland
(Image credit: Holden Frith)

After another mild and snowless Christmas for most of the UK, there’s still time to book in a belated festive break in a more reliable winter wonderland.

In northern Finland – a vast expanse of frozen lakes, snowbound cabins and endless Arctic forest – you can bank on a proper winter whiteout from the beginning of November until the end of March.

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Holden Frith is The Week’s digital director. He also makes regular appearances on “The Week Unwrapped”, speaking about subjects as diverse as vaccine development and bionic bomb-sniffing locusts. He joined The Week in 2013, spending five years editing the magazine’s website. Before that, he was deputy digital editor at The Sunday Times. He has also been TheTimes.co.uk’s technology editor and the launch editor of Wired magazine’s UK website. Holden has worked in journalism for nearly two decades, having started his professional career while completing an English literature degree at Cambridge University. He followed that with a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University in Chicago. A keen photographer, he also writes travel features whenever he gets the chance.