Welcome to Pure Nature

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Welcome to Plan Your Best Holiday in Finland!

Äksyt Ämmät - Green Finn Tour Operator
is a travel agency, tour operator, program service provider and online store in North Karelia.
We offer responsible and eco-friendly travel packages. Nature tours for groups of all sizes. 
Nature holidays with local twist - walking, canoeing, biking, skiing, Karelian culture and food...

Your sustainable partner!
Äksyt Ämmät is member Sustainable Travel Finland label
as a recognition of valuable and long-term work for sustainable tourism.

Let's make happy holiday memories

Explore with us!


Tours & holidays for those who want to enjoy real Finnish way of life and pure nature

Find here your own resbobsible holiday or ask us to make a customized holiday package just for you. 
Book your trip and step on to nature trails where tranquility, beauty, and inspiration await.
Hiking, canoeing, mountain biking, or simply relaxing by a campfire.

Our nature is always nearby, offering experiences year-round.
Finland’s flavours and nature is calling, ​Welcome!

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Guesthouse to Guesthouse Karelia à la carte Sauna Tour

The Soul of Finnish Sauna

Experience a true sauna escape in the world of Finnish saunas. During the sauna adventure, there are five unique sauna experiences with different "löyly" (feeling of steam). In addition to feeling the gentle steam on your skin, you can enjoy the outstanding sauna menus and workshops in the sauna adventure, these vary daily.

Hiking tour from Valamo Monastery to Lintula Monastery

Monastery hiking Valamo to Lintula monastery

Monastery to monastery hike The monastery hike connects the only two Orthodox monasteries in Finland: the monastery of Valamo and the Lintula nunnery. The route is 20 km long in one direction. The route includes a variety of narrow paths, with suitable transition sections along sandy roads in between. 

Karelian Cuisine Workshop – Culinary Week in North Karelia

Discover the Flavors of North Karelia – Cuisine Workshop with Authentic Delights!
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Fill Your Backpack with Nature Experiences in North Karelia

Hiking&Fishing&Sauna
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Welcome to pure nature - All-inclusive hiking tour from national park to national park

Welcome to enjoy hiking in pure nature, National Parks Koli, Hiidenportti and Tiilikkajärvi
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Adventure in Nature – Unforgettable Experiences for the Whole Family

Go on an adventure to the nature and enjoy a good night's sleep in the Break Sokos Hotel or Hyvärilä Youth and Holiday Centre Hotel. Bomba's Karelian...
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Accessible Tour in Kuhmo - Nature, Culture and History

This activity week includes lots to do and experience. We will go on excursions and nature observation and enjoy local food.  Let's have an adventure...
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Biking Tour Aroud Lake Pielinen

Welcome to Eastern part of Finland. Everything is taken care of, you can enjoy driving!
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Craft and Art Week in North Karelia

Diving into the deep end to handicraft in the amazing place. Welcome learn new and old ones techniques and love it!
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Nature, Herbs & Beauty


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Fishing and Fish Saunas in Höytiäinen and Piilo


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Our own guesthouse Pihlajapuu

Accommodation, Activities and Traditional Karelian Delicacies

Äksyt Ämmät - Guesthouse Pihlajapuu
The traditional log house used to serve as a village school, but has now been lovingly renovated for its new purpose of hosting international guests.
There is accommodation for up to twenty people. We have ten bedrooms, seven rooms upstairs and three rooms downstairs and we also have a holiday apartment in the courtyard. The house has lounges and balconies and a Finnish sauna heated by a log fireplace. Our kitchen serves fresh local food.
The small town of Nurmes is about 20 km from the guesthouse. Pihlajapuu hosts holidays and excursions all year round.
We are literally in the middle of the forest, where you can pick berries and mushrooms in autumn. In winter there is plenty of snow and you can go jogging on the cross-country ski trails right from the doorstep.

Our kitchen offers pure, locally sourced food, with ingredients largely gathered from the surrounding nature.
We are also a popular dining spot for groups.
For groups, we provide a traditional Karelian buffet as well as workshops on making Karelian delicacies, such as crafting Karelian pasties.
We have our own cookbook, featuring a collection of the guesthouse Pihlajapuu's delicious recipes.  
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