Join this tour and get close to scandinavian mountain nature and experience it with all your senses.
This guided hike in the Abisko Valley is fore you who is intrested in discovering the nature in the northern Lapland mountains in a place where it is at its finest. Here there is a contrast between views of high mountain peaks and small dwarf plants right at our boots.
In the Abisko Valley there are several so-called nabbar which are small hills that stick up in the birch forest and are often a bit more bare of trees than the surroundings, which provides fantastic viewpoints over large areas. These nabbar are remnants of the melting of the ice sheet and are one of many geological traces from the ice age.
From many of the these nabbar you will be able to see the Abisko National Park and the mountain Nuolja in the west, to Lapporten and Stordalen in the east, the Abisko mountain massif, the so-called Abisko Alps in the south and Torneträsk in the north. Just Lapporten, or Tjuonavagge, is a large and very characteristic U-valley that was formed during the ice age and is one of Sweden’s most famous mountain formations.
Because it is unusually dry and calcareous for being a mountain terrain in Abisko, the area is sometimes called an Arctic desert, and as such there is a rich mountain flora here where several unusual and protected species thrive. Abisko also has a rich wildlife, Moose, hare, wolverine, lemming, stoat, grey heron, reindeer, fox and even lynx have been seen. Several bird species also thrive in the area. Valley ptarmigan, mountain buzzard, kestrel, mountain ibis, tawny owl, short-eared owl, blue jay, grey siskin and snow sparrow are possible to see. Many ornithologists are also here in the area to see northern warblers which have nesting sites in the Abisko Valley.
