Things to do in Karasjok
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Engholm's Husky
Engholm's Husky, in the lodge bearing the same name, offers winter dog-sled and cross-country skiing tours, as well as summer walking tours with a dog to carry your pack - or at least some of it. All-inclusive expeditions range from one-day dog-sled tours (per person around NOK1100) to eight-day, off-piste Arctic safaris (NOK11,500).
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Sami Parliament
The Sami Parliament was established in 1989. In 2000 it moved into a glorious new building, encased in mellow Siberian wood, with a birch, pine and oak interior. The main assembly hall is shaped like a Sami tent, and the Sami library, lit with tiny lights like stars, houses over 35,000 volumes, plus other media. From late June to mid-August, there are 30-minute tours leaving hourly between 8.30am and 2.30pm (except 11.30am), Monday to Friday. The rest of the year, tours are at 1.30pm on weekdays.
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Sami National Museum
The Sami National Museum is also called the Sami Collection. Smaller and more serious, it’s been rather upstaged by the genial razzmatazz down the road. Devoted to Sami history and culture, it has displays of colourful, traditional Sami clothing, a bewildering array of tools and artefacts and works by contemporary Sami artists. Outdoors, a homestead reveals the simplicity of traditional Sami life. Signing is only in Norwegian and Sami and the English guide sheet is difficult to follow.
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Gammen
It’s very much reindeer or reindeer, with a token trout dish, 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 banned from all Norwegian eateries, tenacious puffers may derive more than cold comfort from this dark, smoky environment.
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Theme Park
Sami culture is big business here, and it was only a matter of time before it was consolidated into a theme park. There’s a wistful, high-tech multimedia introduction to the Sami in the ‘Magic Theatre’, plus Sami winter and summer camps and other dwellings in the grounds, and of course, a gift shop and café. It’s actually very good and presents the Sami as the normal fellow human beings they are rather than as exotic anachronisms.
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Ássebákti Cultural & Nature Trail
On the Rv92, 12km south of Karasjok heading for Kautokeino, the 3.5km Ássebákti Cultural & Nature Trail is well worth undertaking for a taste of the forest even though, despite its name, it doesn't actually have much that's cultural. This said, around 25 minutes out (allow two hours for the full out and back route), there are traces of trappers' pits, store mounds and, across the river, turf huts.
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Knivsmed Strømeng
This craft shop calls on five generations of local experience to create unique and original handmade Sami knives for everything from outdoor to kitchen use.
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Gallery
This dynamic gallery mounts temporary exhibitions by contemporary Sami artists and is well worth the short journey to the limits of town.
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