Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
( 78 46 61 35; halonen@online.no; Kautokeinoveien; per person/site Nkr10/110,
dm Nkr150, cabins with outdoor bathroom Nkr275-450, with bathroom Nkr650-990)
Friendly Karasjok Camping occupies a hillside site with river views and a range of cabins.
Campers can pitch their tents on its particularly lush, springy grass. Everyone can lie back
onreindeerskinstothecrackleofthenightlybirch-woodfireinthecosy
lavvo
(Samitent).
Engholm Husky Design Lodge
CABINS €€
( 91 58 66 25;
www.engholm.no
;
cabins Nkr400-500 plus per person Nkr300)
About
6km from Karasjok along the Rv92, Sven Engholm, the owner of Engholm's Husky, has
built this wonderful haven in the forest with his own hands. Each rustic cabin is individu-
ally furnished with great flair, all have kitchen facilities and two have bathrooms. You sink
into sleep to the odd bark and yelp from the sled dogs. A plentiful dinner costs Nkr280.
Signed trails lead through the forest and barely a five-minute stroll away there's a salmon
stream with a fine beach, where you can rent a double canoe (Nkr400 per day). You can
also join the team on their daily puppy walk or, for Nkr500, enjoy a boat ride on a nearby
lake as the adult huskies run, yap and swim alongside. Sven's place is also Karasjok's HI-
affiliated youth hostel. However, there are no self-catering facilities and HI card carriers
merely receive a 10% discount on normal rates.
Rica Hotel Karasjok
HOTEL €€
( 78 46 88 60;
www.rica.no
; Porsangerveien; s/d from Nkr995/1195; )
Adjacent to Sápmi Park, this is Karasjok's premier lodging, with handsome rooms and
Sami motifs throughout, plus, outside summertime, an impressive Arctic Menu restaurant.
The internet terminal for guests - run, staff are at pains to point out, by an external com-
pany - may, at Nkr3 per minute, rank as the world's most expensive. Older rooms in the
hotel's more traditional
Gjestehus (s/d Nkr795/895)
are substantially cheaper. In the park
grounds, it also has some recently renovated modern rooms, priced as for the main build-
ing.
Gammen
TRADITIONAL SAMI DINING €€€
( 78 46 88 60; mains Nkr235-295; 11am-10.30pm mid-Jun-mid-Aug)
It's very
much reindeer or reindeer plus a couple of fish options at this rustic complex of four large
interconnected Sami huts run by the Rica Hotel. Although it may be busy with bus tour
groups, it's an atmospheric place to sample traditional Sami dishes from reindeer stew to
fillet of reindeer or simply to drop in for a coffee or beer. And hey, although cigarettes are
