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.
- mamabirdy
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.
2020-07-25 - Kate A 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! …
2019-09-01 - Went on a walk in the national park today. The guide was brilliant, chatty and friendly, and we had a small campfire picnic towards the end of the walk. We... read more walked about 6 km in the snow and was out 3-4 hours. Would recommend this...More
Nickdk123
2019-02-02 - The best day of my trip to Helsinki was going to the Nuuksio National Park with Olli! We canoed (beautiful & peaceful!), hiked, picked mushrooms, cooked them over a campfire,... read more and visited a reindeer park. Olli is the best - he triple checked the wild...More
jaimeoy
2018-10-05 - orsolyaa2020 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.
2021-08-22 - P2843FQchristianp Beautiful 3 lake tour with a walk in the forest and swimming; best summer weather and a perfect guiding.
2022-08-20 - 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 - Rahaf M
I have concern of this summer trip how its gonna be with 6 months boy , we have planned me and my wife to rent asuntoauto and take trip in... read more east of Finland camping in different nice locations, my concern is that I'm not sure if its safe for this age of kid to take this time of trip 7 days sleeping on the cabin car , I would be happy to hear from anyone who have experience with traveling with young age kids and specially camping, this is total new system for .
2021-06-01 - MasonL741 We had a wonderful time with Olli the boss + tour guide. He picked us up on time at the hotel, took us to the reindeer park, canoeing, hiking.... even... read more bring us nice coffee and delicious pastries. The hiking in the woods was especially refreshing....More
2019-06-30 - Lordgavinr I went to Nuuksio with my family today. The experience was wonderful. more importantly i would like to mention the kindness of the staff who took us. Once we got... read more back to the hotel, I didn’t know i forgot my cap on the car. But the staff put in the effort to drive back once more and return the cap to me.
Thank you so much!
2019-08-14
