Sarek

Europe’s largest national park and often called Europe’s last remaining wilderness. The hiker comes face to face with a natural beauty that is hard to match anywhere in the world.

You will also find unique plant and wildlife, with big game such as bear, lynx, wolverine and the towering Sarek moose. You will also find moments of magic and excitement when you can see the traces of an ancient Sami culture, Sarek is not for the weak or lazy, but for the more daring type who prefers the challenge of open wilderness, a rich reward awaits...

Sarek National Park was founded in 1909 and is an extensive area of trackless wilderness and unique beauty situated east of the Norwegian border in Lapland. Together with Stora Sjofallet and Padjelanta National Parks, Sarek forms Europe’s largest national park with an area covering more than 5,700 square kilometres of unspoiled wilderness. There are a hundred glaciers and six of the peaks are more than 2,000 m above sea level. Sarek is an alpine region with dramatic mountain massifs and deep valleys through which powerful rivers flows.

Sarek’s “artery” is the famous and beautiful Rapadalen, The river Rapaatno have an enormous waterflow with green glacierwater from several glaciers in the area. Sarek is known by the characterised natural surroundings found nowhere else. Overviewing the hight peaks of Sarek, the vallyes, the surrounding marshy moorland, waterways and woodland, this area is of great natural beauty and one of the worlds most beautiful places.

The valleys provide rich wildlife, with god chances of encountering the Sarek moose along with predatory animals such as bear, wolverine, lynx and in rare occasion the wolf. Sarek is included in a gigantic area of more or less unspoiled wilderness that goes under the generic name of Laponia. In this area you can also find the remains of ancient Sami culture and meet with todays Sami people. Laponia is considered by the Sami people as a part of their own nation Sapmi.

Laponia is a part of UNESCO’s World Heritage list, for its nature conservation value and for its status of being a region of native Sámi people and culture. Sarek is not recommended for beginners due to its inaccessibility, lack of roads, bridges, and overnight accommodation cabins as well as its quick, dramatic weather changes. Unexperienced hikers can contact us for more informations about tour guides, equipment etc.