Itinerary
- Day 1
Arrival
- Start point
- Joensuu, North Karelia, Finland (Joensuu)
- Meals
- Dinner
- Day 2
Wild Herbs and Natural Products
- Meals
- Lunch, Dinner
Included Activities
- Introduction to local nature and wild herbs
- Foraging and processing of herbs
- Berry picking and coffee break in local forest
- Evening sauna
- Day 3
Food from Forest and Fields
- Meals
- Lunch (Three-course lunch featuring local rye bread with wild herb pesto and cold-smoked salmon, nettle pancakes with lingonberry-spruce sprout jam, cheesecake with blueberry jam and seasonal herbs), Dinner
Included Activities
- Foraging ingredients from nature
- Preparing three-course lunch together
- Evening sauna
- Day 4
Natural Cosmetics
- Meals
- Lunch, Dinner
Included Activities
- Natural cosmetics workshop - making bath bombs and exfoliating products
- Learning about vegetable oils
- Making unique facial oil for your skin type
- Learning facial massage routine with facial oil
- Evening sauna
- Day 5
Relaxing in Nature and Sauna
- Meals
- Lunch, Dinner
Included Activities
- Introduction to nature's health effects
- Relaxation exercises in the forest
- Preparing sauna experience - making herbs for foot baths and herbal waters
- Making birch whisk
- Evening sauna experience by lake
- Day 6
Excursion to Local Artisans
- Meals
- Lunch, Dinner
Included Activities
- Wood Soul exhibition - experiencing all stages of tree life to art piece
- Onnela visit with arboretum and garden spaces
- Galleria Savipaja visit - Finnish handicraft business
Landmarks Wood Soul Onnela Galleria Savipaja - Day 7
Kukkakuhhaus Festival
- Meals
- Lunch, Dinner
Included Activities
- Kukkakuhhaus Festival visit
Landmarks Kukkakuhhaus - Day 8
Departure
- End point
- Joensuu, North Karelia, Finland (Joensuu)
- Meals
- Breakfast
