Feel The Nature is a Finnish nature experience company specialized in active holidays and day trips and digital experiences.
Lakes and forests of unique Nuuksio National Park is our home ground where we have organized open and private day trips year-round from Helsinki since 2013. In Lapland, we organize ski tours from hut to hut and activity weeks. Our greatest pleasure is to introduce you to the unique Finnish nature.
Highly recommend this, Olli is a warm, welcoming helpful guide informing you of all the plant and wildlife around the park while giving clear and helpful instructions of canoeing basics... read more and safety. Lovely little hike for about 20 mins between islands gave the group a...More
Delbwn 2019-07-13
Great tour through Nuuksio! Really knowledgeable and enthusiastic guide who made us a fantastic hiking snack of traditional Finnish Pastries! Highly recommend this tour as part of your Helsinki stay 😎
Tasha L 2019-01-05
We took this tour with Olli our guide. The scenery was just amazing and Olli was very knowledgable. We stopped for coffee and cinnamon buns warmed by the fire. We... read more also visited the reindeer park which was great. Would definitely recommend this trip, especially in...More
CSAE86 2017-12-31
We wanted to visit Nuuksio before winter season and had the chance to join the canoeing tour. It was excellent. I recommend this to everyone looking for a nature activity... read more in Helsinki/Uusimaa area.
bahadirkandemir 2018-09-30
This was wonderful--absolutely the greatest highlight of our trip to Finland. We did the half-day berry-picking and mushroom-foraging hike in Nuuksio and I could not recommended it more highly--it is... read more a real can't miss! Our guide Olli was very kind and gave us great information about the berries, the mushrooms, the forest and Finland in general. The hike was beautiful. It was also a perfect level of difficulty, in that I (an experienced hiker) and my boyfriend (not much of a hiker at all and also who wears a leg brace due to a disability) were both able to enjoy it. I did not feel like it was too easy, and he did not think it was too hard! The park is beautiful and quiet, and the foraging was a lot of fun (as was the end of the hike when we ate what we had found, along with Finnish pastries and coffee that Olli brought). Don't hesitate for a moment about booking this activity. It is a must-do and I look forward to doing another excursion with Feel the Nature when we return to Finland in the future! …
Kate A 2019-09-01
We loved the peace and quiet and beauty of Nuuksio. We had a great experience canoeing, as well as a little bit of berry and mushroom picking. Our guide Olli... read more was knowledgeable and fun to be around.
Orsolya A 2021-08-22
We had a fantastic canoeing tour with Olli, our lovely guide. Everything was perfect and we all agree it was the highlight of our family holiday in Helsinki. The paddling... read more is gentle (very safe!) in 2-person open canoes and the lakes are beautifully calm, surrounded...More
Audavian 2019-07-23
Ali of Feel The Nature picked us up at our hotel in Helsinki and was right on time. He drove us to Nuuksio National Park, where he equipped us with... read more snow shoes and poles. With them, we could walk across frozen lakes and up icy...More
Amy C 2018-04-06
This is a fantastic trip - not only for the canoeing portion but also for learning about Finnish nature. Olli greeted us warmly when we pulled up to the... read more boathouse and his generous nature and happy sense of humor continued throughout our whole trip. We went as a family of 6 - kids ages 12-18. We began with an introduction to paddling and steering the canoes and Olli gave us a choice of possible routes. We paddled the 4 canoes (pairs of us and Olli in a solo canoe) around one of the Nuuksio lakes and then pulled up on shore to carry the boats between lakes. While onshore Olli showed us how to forage some of the local mushrooms and berries and explained a lot of the surroundings - both the national park landscape and the flora/fauna such as the types of lichen and the types of mammals living in the area; his knowledge of wilderness is deep. We then paddled a bit more and stopped for a snack and a swim. The snack was delicious and the swimming delightful! We are looking forward to taking the canoes out again soon and highly recommend a nature experience with Feel the Nature. Everything was safe and easy - they had vests, dry sacs, etc. We were able to take all our things safely in a large wet bag they provided. Olli even took lovely photos too which he sent to us! It would be a great first stop in Nuuksio and Olli’s knowledge of the park would certainly help you plan the rest of your visit. …
mamabirdy 2020-07-01
We had an exceptional day out with Ollie in Nuuksio National Park! It was snowy and cold but much more protected and less windy than in Helsinki, which... read more made for a more comfortable experience. Highlights included waking across many frozen lakes (a little scary but...More
Highly recommend this, Olli is a warm, welcoming helpful guide informing you of all the plant and wildlife around the park while giving clear and helpful instructions of canoeing basics... read more 
