Discover the magic of winter in South Estonia on a 3-day adventure
3-DAY NORDIC SKI TOUR
Duration: 3 days
Dates: 27–29 December 2026
Difficulty level: easy
Price: 530€ per person
Price includes:
Ski equipment rent: skis, poles, boots. Small backpack for personal gear, gloves, hat if needed
2 nights in a cosy locally run farm accommodation
2 breakfasts, 3 lunches and 2 dinners, snacks and hot drinks during the hike
Sauna (one evening)
Local guide/skiing instructor
For additional cost:
Guided smoke sauna experience (UNESCO Cultural Heritage)
Transport from Tartu or Võru and back
PROGRAMM
27 December – First steps & Haanja
We’ll meet at 11:00 at Haanja Recreation and Sports Centre.
We’ll start by getting to know each other and finding the right equipment for everyone. The first part of the day will include an introductory ski lesson, so you can get comfortable with the equipment and learn or refresh the basic techniques.
After lunch at Suure Muna Café, we’ll head out for a couple of hours of skiing through the beautiful Haanja landscape.
We’ll finish our skiing day at around 4:00 PM and help you find your way to your accommodation, where a warm dinner will be waiting for you.
28 December – Across the Haanja Upland
We’ll spend the day exploring the Haanja Upland on skis – crossing small valleys, forests and bog landscapes and skiing up and down the characteristic rolling hills of Southern Estonia.
We’ll have lunch during the day and return for dinner at your accommodations.
In the evening, there will also be an opportunity to experience a traditional Estonian smoke sauna.
29 December – Bog landscapes or Kütiorg
For our final day, we’ll choose the route according to the snow and weather conditions. We may explore one of Haanja’s beautiful bog landscapes Luhasoo or head towards Kütiorg.
We’ll finish the trip at approximately 15:00.
Getting to Haanja
We can arrange Tartu–Haanja–Tartu transport for €50 per person.
Alternatively, you can travel from Tartu-Võru with Lux Express. Bus tickets are usually around €10 each way, and we can pick you up in Võru. We can book the tickets for you.
Alternative accommodation
If you would like something a little more special, we can also arrange accommodation in a lovely tiny house right at the foot of Suur Munamägi, Estonia’s highest hill.
The café and restaurant are just next door, and we can start our ski adventures directly from there on some of the days.
With the tiny house accommodation, the package price would be €150 extra per person.
And if there is no snow?
December weather can always surprise us. If we don’t have enough snow for skiing, the trip will still take place.
We’ll adapt the programme to the conditions and replace skiing with other winter adventures such as snowshoeing and hiking. The idea remains the same – three days outside, discovering the forests, hills and wild landscapes of Southern Estonia.
