Guide to Laponia World Heritage Site - Laponia Adventures
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Laponia World Heritage Site

Find inspiration for your holiday in and around Laponia World Heritage Site. With its unique natural and cultural values Laponia is a combined World Heritage Site. The 9,400 square meter contiguous nature area contains a living cultural landscape with Sami tradition of reindeer herding. There are also unique natural values ​​here in the form of varied and rich flora and fauna as well as formations that show the geological development of the earth.

Here you’ll find information about the National Parks and other places and things to do that you should not miss. This page will fill up over time.

National Parks

Muddus National Park

Muddus nationalpark is located in the forest area between Gällivare och Jokkmokk. In the National Park, you’ll find large marshlands, spectacular waterfalls and deep ravines.
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Padjelanta National Park

Bordered by high alpine peaks and large mountain lakes lies this lush, vast area. Padjelanta National Park contains flourishing moors, rolling mountain hills and a vibrant Sami cultural landscape.
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Sarek National Park

Like a high Alpine jewel in the middle of the mountain range you’ll find ​​towering mountain massifs, bound together by hundreds of ridges and glaciers and separated by rushing rivers and rivers.
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Stora Sjöfallet National Park

Shortly after the foundation of Stora Sjöfallets National Park its rights were taken away so that the mighty waters in the National Park could support Sweden with electricity in times of war.
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Culture and nature in Laponia

Jokkmokks marknad

Jokkmokk winter market

For more than 400 years, the traditional winter market has been organized in Jokkmokk during the coldest days of winter. Nowadays it is a festival for all of Sapmí, but from the beginning it had a completely different purpose.
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What is a Sámi village?

Perhaps you have hiked in the mountains and seen houses and thought it was a Sámi village. But in reality, you passed a Sámi settlement, which is a summer residence in the mountains where the reindeer herders stay when the reindeers are on summer pasture.
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