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Spend a time in spectacular Finnmark in North of Norway with fantastic possibilities for outdoor activities on border of Tana River!
We live in a small sami village by the Tana River, just 4 km from the border to Finland. The village, named Polmak is 18 km from the town of Tana bru where you can find restaurants, shops, Health centre etc.
The hosts, Andreas (80) and Astri (75) main interests are the nature and everything we can harvest from the nature nearby . We also enjoyu Fishing salmon from Tana River, but also from smaller lakes and rivers. Berrypicking is also an Activity we appriciate and we use the berries for the long artic Winter.
Gardening is also one of Our hobbies and we grow potatoes, carrots, Strawberries, tomaoes etc.
Our home has been a small sheep farm 4 years ago, but now we have no animals. During the time of farming we had a little cabin in the Mountains for herding. Still we have it. 7 km from our home.
The last few years we have build Three cabins and a sauna on our farm. The cabins are rented for tourists, and we also offer caonoes, river boating for tourists.
Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre
Projets artistiques
Pratique d’une langue
Enseignement
Jardinage
Bricolage et construction
Cuisine/repas pour la famille
Aide à la maison
Entretien général
Aide informatique/internet
Objectifs de développement durable de l’ONU que cet hôte essaie d'atteindre
Projets impliquant des enfants
Ce projet peut impliquer des enfants. Pour en savoir plus, consultez nos directives et conseils ici.
Aide
We are looking for all kinds of help at an earilier farm on a very small tourist Company. Main jobs before the winter is help like forest cleaning, painting, fishing, simple carpentry, berrypicking (cloudberries, blueberries, mountain Cranberries), making wood in springtime for the winter.
Langues
Langues parlées
Norwegian: Courant
Sami: Courant
Allemand: Intermédiaire
Anglais: IntermédiaireCet hôte propose un échange linguistique
Cet hôte a indiqué qu’il souhaitait faire partager sa propre langue ou en apprendre une nouvelle.
Contactez-le pour en savoir plus.
Hébergement
You will get your own room with bath room, TV, Kitchenette, internett
Autres infos...
Our village is a small quiet place with only 70 inhabitants. The possibilites for out door life are really spectacular. We have famous Tana River with salmon, Polmak River nearby. Our location is perfect for exploring East Finnmark. It is a short distance to the coast. Bus stop one minute walk. Bus from our home 5 days a week when the children are at School. Train station is in Rovaniemi (Finland) 520 km from our home. Airport in Kirkenes (160 km from Polmak) and Ivalo(Finnland, 220 km from our home)
Informations complémentaires
Accès Internet
Accès Internet limité
Nous avons des animaux
Nous sommes fumeurs
Familles bienvenues
Possibilité d'accueillir les animaux
Cet hôte a dit qu’il acceptait les personnes voyageant avec un animal.
Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?
Deux
Nombre d'heures attendues
Minimum 4 hours
Feedback (9)
The place is amazing and full of history, and I had the opportunity to learn so much about the salmon fishing in the river… read more
And I was very lucky.
Andreas and Astri were wonderful and generous people who made me felt home at their place.
They brought me along to their little cabin in the mountains, served me many delicious kinds of fish and told me where I could visit beautiful places… read more
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The place is amazing and full of history, and I had the opportunity to learn so much about the salmon fishing in the river… read more
And I was very lucky.
Andreas and Astri were wonderful and generous people who made me felt home at their place.
They brought me along to their little cabin in the mountains, served me many delicious kinds of fish and told me where I could visit beautiful places… read more
It was our first experience in workaway and just perfect. We saw beautiful landscape, spend lot of perfect dishes, typical food (lot of fresh fish), share discussion about a sapmi culture. We learned a lot.
The work is different every day, picking berries, made jam,… read more
It was an honour
to stay at your house,
to work with you,
to learn about the way of living of Sami,
to share ideas around a table full of flavours,
to enjoy the beauty of your Sápmi,
…
The way you live is beautiful and sensible.
The world needs more people like you both!
Hoping to see you again and wishing you all… read more
They are also very hospitable. They cooked for us delicious dinners of norwegian and sámi cuisine during them we were talking and laughing together. They told us many… read more
Thank you so much Andreas and Astri.
During that time we were given a lot of freedom and trust (and have been fed extremely well); we're afraid that our efforts to be useful weren't still enough to repay all the kindness of our hosts, but we strived to do our best.
Many times we were encouraged to take our time… read more
