The Experience Hotel Taivaanvalkeat and the Elves’ Experience Village combined make a unique experience destination on the quiet riverbank of the Ounasjoki river. You can feel Lapland’s enchanting magic here and breathe the cleanest air in Europe.
The hotel is suitable for accommodation, special events and meetings. On the other hand, the courtyard offers unlimited possibilities for a variety of activities. This is an excellent place for groups, families or just for you when you want to experience something a bit different.
The Elves’ Experience Village is a well-known and attractive tourist destination based on stories and mythology, filled with fun activities and open all year round. The allure of the Elves’ Experience Village is based on stories, fairy tales, culture, fantasy and mythology. It is nature’s own amusement park. The destination combines two strong travel trends: nature and cultural tourism.
The Elves’ Experience Village is located in Lapland, 180km north of the Arctic Circle in Kittilä, in the Köngäs village only 8km from Levi. It’s easy to get here by car, plane, train or on a bus.
Step into Lapland’s living fairy tale! No on is too old for fairytales.
Palosaarentie 30, 99140 Köngäs, FINLAND
You can get to the cafe-restaurant Tonttula without paying an entrance fee.
You can buy the entrance fee either here or at Tonttula’s café-restaurant. The entrance fee include a self-guided tour of the Elves Village area, where you can find Elves Village buildings, Elves Path, elves Hideaway, Seita stone and much more.
If you want a guided Elf activity, check out our experiences and book yours
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1. Tonttula Café & Souvenier shop / Reception
Every day is Christmas at the Elves’ Village. You will feel the Christmas atmosphere as you enter the main building at the Elves’ Village.
Café is open every day 10 am. – 4 pm.
You don’t need to buy an area fee when you visit our cafe
2. Hotel Taivaanvalkeat
Have an unforgettable experience at Hotel Taivaanvalkeat. This is an excellent place for groups, families or just for you when you want to experience something a bit different.
3. Country House
Next to the main house is a separate Country house of four bedrooms, kitchen and sauna. It can be reserved together with the main house for up to 38 persons or for smaller group to stay privately.
4. Elf’s cabin
The Elf’s cabin is a 120 m² detached cottage in the Elf’s courtyard with its own private sauna.
5. Aurora Pyramids
When you stay at the glass-roofed Aurora Pyramids, you can almost touch the ever-changing sky, nature and its forces. Heavenly nature and the Firmament present themselves through the glass roof in a new way, every day. The Aurora pyramids (11 of them) are situated at Tonttula Experience village.
6. Elves’ Homes Museum
Included in the area fee:
The Elvish residents in the storehouses adore children, but even adults can be pleasantly surprised when they take a peek inside!
8. Riverside kiln
The kiln next to the sauna is a comfortable place to continue the evening where you can sit by the fire, enjoying a cold drink or even dinner.
9. The Temple
Included in the area fee:
This pleasant Temple in the Elves’ Village is located in the Elves’ Experience Village courtyard and it is a place you should definitely visit!
The idea behind the Temple is that any guest who comes here can spend a quiet moment in the Temple with his or her book of faith in their own language. Books of faith already exist in several languages.
10. Blacksmith’s workshop
Included in the area fee:
Welcome to the new build – Blacksmith’s workshop – which is made in the old style.
Do you know everything that has been done with these tools and goods in the past?
Story of the Elf in a yellow dress -book and Elf in a ayellow dress and secret of Seita Stone -book is available on the Tonttula Café and www.hulluporo.fi/webshop (We can deliver books only inside the EU.)
11. Demons
Included in the area fee:
Demons live somewhere between this world and the other side. They dislike all work and never wash themselves. Bits of cloth and yarn hang from their stinking, torn cloaks as they slouch about their lands. The demons watch the world through their narrow, gleaming eyes without eyelids.
On Elf in a yellow dress and The Secret of the Seita Stone book you can read more!
12. Elves Path
Included in the area fee:
The elves do their own thing in the hiding places of the Experience Forest. Lucky wanderers may find an elf’s hut, nursing hut or a hideaway hole.
13. Elves’ Hideaway
Included in the area fee:
The Experience Forest Path leads guests to the most secret place in the elven world, The Elves’ Hideaway.
The Elves’ Hideaway are located Gingerbread house, Elf School and The Hut of Knowledge.
* This is great spot take a pic! Please use #elvesvillage that we can see your wonderfull pic!
14. Seita stone
Included in the area fee:
You will see a large stone. A giant fir has grown on it since long ago. In the stump, all that’s left now of the fir, there’s a crow’s nest. This is the dwelling of the Great Avariti, who watches carefully anyone who approaches the stone. The roots of the fir have wound into the cracks of the stone over hundreds of years. You have arrived at the Seita-stone.
* This is great spot take a pic! Please use #elvesvillage that we can see your wonderfull pic!
15. The Bear-Chair
Included in the area fee:
“The Bear-Chair stood majestically on the mossy forest floor. Sailor-Smith Elf had done some fine work. The features of the sacred animal were just like a real bear, and it was good to sink into its lap. At first, the seat felt a bit hard under her bottom, but after a while it felt as if she was sitting on a thick, soft pillow, it was so warm and comfy. The sitter felt safe, too – she was now in the lap of the bear, the king of the forest.”
On Elf in a yellow dress and The Secret of the Seita Stone book you can read more!
16. Santa’s vehicles
Included in the area fee:
Santa’s vehicles
Battycopter, Rudolf’s sleigh, 200-year-old bicycle and Gift sled
17. Sledding hill
Included in the area fee:
You are always allowed to play and have adventures at the Elves’ Village!
In the courtyard, there is one toboggan slide. Snow gliders and toboggans are available for free use near the slides. Please check that the slope is clear before sliding down.
18. Kicksledges
Included in the area fee:
One person seated and one person steering can use a kick sledge in one go.
Try it; it is a fun and effective way to strengthen the muscles in the back of your thighs. Kicksledges can be used to travel from the courtyard to the magic forest and back.
19. Nativity scene barn
Included in the area fee:
There is an exhibition of Nativity scene in the barn.
20. The sheep
Baa baas are the Elves’ Village sheep and they are Leenu, Tauno, Sulo, Nipsu, Tiinu ja Miina.
The sheep’s favourite foods are fireweed, bread, roots, and especially carrots.
Sheep like people. Come say hello!
21. Reindeers
An extra charge
Reindeer are wild, Arctic and semi-domesticated animals are highly valued in the Elves’ Village.
Our reindeer are named Kalle, Kalle Junior, Koukkusarvi, Prinssi Oscar, Nikla, Pyry (white reindeer), Nopsajalka and the reindeer Malla & Mila.
For an additional fee, you can get to know the reindeer better. Elves’ reindeer ride can also be booked for an additional fee.
22. Northern Lights Hut
The two-storey Northern Lights Hut can be used for programmed evenings, birthdays, wedding receptions, corporate events and recreation.
In the heart of the Northern Lights Hut downstairs, there is a large fireplace and tables set up for up to 40 people.
The Northern Lights Hut has underfloor heating and toilet facilities.
23. Grill hut
24. Wooden seita
The Seita of the Humans guarded the water in the Elves Hideaway yard. The Seita was named after Ukko, the supreme god. It was a decorated wooden pole made from a tree so old that you couldn’t count the annual rings no matter how hard you tried.
On Elf in a yellow dress and The Secret of the Seita Stone book you can read more!
When you want to experience something a bit different