Canadian Arctic Reindeer Signature Package

Day 1

 Meals: Lunch

Fly into Inuvik where your guide will greet you for an adventure down the iconic Aklavik Ice Road! During this journey you will have a local guide educate you on Aklavik, the history of the Ice Road, and the people in which call this area home! Once arrived in Aklavik you will have a Cultural town tour with your local guide, and have the potential to meet a local elder of Aklavik. Once the town tour is finished and you have said goodbye to Aklavik, you will return back down the Ice Road to Inuvik where you will spend the rest of your evening, at the Mackenzie Hotel. Make sure to get some rest because tomorrow will be another incredible day!

Day 2

Meals: Bagged lunch and Cultural Dinner

Enjoy a hearty breakfast at the Mackenzie Hotel before being picked up and taken down the brand new Mackenzie Valley Highway to Tuktoyaktuk. Once you have travelled down the newly constructed highway, you will stop and get on to your snowmobile for a short lesson on how to travel safety on your snowmobile. Once everyone is comfortable on their snowmobiles and ready for adventure, we’ll head out towards the reindeer herd.

Enjoying an hour-long snowmobile adventure through the Arctic Tundra, you’ll experience the vastness of this unique landscape and then arrive into a whole new level of epic, as you suddenly find yourself among 3000+ grazing reindeer, deep in the snow-covered hills!

Here you will receive the first part of your herding experience in the Arctic, while you’re immersed in this surreal situation and the many awe-striking photo opportunities available to you before departing to your basecamp for the evening.

Once arrived you can relax, enjoy great food, explore the area, check out the igloo, and just take in the scenery that surrounds you here in your Arctic ‘home’ for the next 2 days. Another surreal photo opportunity awaits with the potential of nature’s night-show; The Aurora Borealis!

Day 3

Meals: Breakfast

Wake up to a fresh Arctic morning and continue on a Snowmobile back to the reindeer herd for a brief visit, and last photo opportunity before returning to the Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk highway. Once arrived you will start your journey down the historic Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk highway to Tuk, one of the newest and most remote highways in the world!

Your definition of ‘epic’ will expand again when you visit local sites of Tuktoyaktuk like the famed Canadian Pingo Landmark. During your tour of Pingo National Landmark, your guide will explain how these surreal geographical land formations were made, as well as how the local Inuvialuit who live with this land as part of their daily existence, used them for lookouts and ice freezers!

In this truly incredible third day of your authentic experience at the frozen Arctic Ocean, your guide will share stories about traveling on the ice, the way of life for Arctic hunters, and how the Inuvialuit people have survived for generations in such an extreme environment. A second-time around on the highway will bring new sights, photo opportunities and continued tales of the North, as the group heads back to Inuvik!

Day 4

Meals: N/A

This is your day to experience Inuvik, see the local landmarks, meet the locals, and buy souvenirs before you are shuttled from your hotel back to the airport for your departure back home. As you fly away from this remote Arctic region you will be overcome with memories and forever be changed by your experiences in this remote region of the world. You may be leaving the Arctic but these Arctic experiences will always be with you influencing aww-inspiring stories for family and friends for years to come.

Personal Products, Warm Clothes, Water Bottle, and a Camera, leave the rest to us!

This Package Includes:

Tours

• A half-day reindeer visit
• Town of Inuvik Tour
• A full-day reindeer-herding experience
• Full day Tuktoyaktuk Ice Road tour
• Cultural demonstrations and display of Northern Games
• Story-telling from the local Indigenous people
• Local guides

Accommodation

• One nights at basecamp lodge
• Two nights at The Mackenzie Hotel
• An overnight in an igloo or quincy (optional)

Food

• Traditional foods of the local Indigenous people
• All meals while on your tours and while staying at the lodge.*
• *Note the last night is at the Mackenzie Hotel where you may eat at the restaurant, and on the last half-day you will be responsible for your own meals.

Gear

• Full winter gear including: Boots, fur hat, mitts, snow-pants, a parka and your snowmobile helmet.
• Neck warmers and liner-gloves are also included.
• Snowshoes

Transportation

• Airport shuttles

As most our costs are incurred long before the actual trip, rental or tour takes place, we are bound to the following cancellation fees:

• 90 Days before tour start: Full refund
• 90 – 61 days before tour start: 75% refund
• 60 – 30 days before tour start: 50% refund
• 30 or fewer days before tour start: No refund possible

Exceptions to this cancellation policy cannot be made for any reason, including, terrorism, civil unrest or personal emergencies. If unforeseen circumstances require a change in itinerary, we will make every effort to work out an alternative solution. If for any reason we cannot start the tour, due to circumstances, including but not limited, to severe weather, mechanical breakdown or road closures, you will receive a full refund.