Reindeer Sledding at Camp Tamok in the Tamokdalen Valley

The listing shows the ticket at $220 per person, discounted from $339. Discounts can change, so check the live price. The rating on the listing stands at 4.7 from 130 reviews.

Everything is priced per person and the day runs about 7 hours from the meeting point back to Tromsø.

Everything included

Camp Tamok outfits you on arrival with a thermal suit, winter boots, mittens and a hat.

• Roundtrip transfer by bus from Tromsø
• English-speaking guide or guides
• Reindeer sledding
• Reindeer feeding
• Sami culture programme
• Thermal suit
• Winter boots
• Mittens and hat
• Hot meal, a warm stew, and drinks

What you bring yourself

The listing asks you to arrive with a scarf, thermal clothing and weather-appropriate layers under the loaned suit. Reserve now and pay later is available, and you can cancel free up to 24 hours before the start, which makes this an easy booking to hold while you compare.

You meet the bus at Samuel Arnesens gate 5 in central Tromsø, the Prostneset terminal that most reindeer trips from the city use. From there the drive runs about 90 minutes inland. The listing calls it a scenic journey, and it is the part of the day that separates this product from the camps closer to town.

You leave the coast behind for the Tamokdalen valley, which the listing calls a remote area.

Why the long drive can be the point

The other camps in this catalog sit from a short seaside drive to about an hour from the centre. Camp Tamok goes further, and that is the appeal of this listing: a wilderness camp in a valley rather than a camp near town. The trade is time.

Add the return leg and about three of your seven hours are on the bus, so judge this product as a full-day excursion into the interior with reindeer at the end of it, not as a quick animal visit.

Arrival and kit-up

On arrival your guide greets you at the camp and hands out the essential gear. The thermal suit, winter boots, mittens and hat are all included. Change into the suit over your own thermal layers, add the scarf you brought, and you are set for the outdoor part of the programme.

The reindeer are not kept at the main camp. The herd stands some distance from the dog yard, so the activity begins with a short minibus transfer.

How big the herd is

Camp Tamok keeps about 5 to 6 reindeer. That is the smallest herd of any listing in this catalog. The camp near the city keeps around 300, so the feel here is different: a handful of animals rather than a large herd.

You feed them by hand with the guide.

The sled ride itself

The listing describes the sledding as a short reindeer sledding tour and gives no minute count. Expect a short ride rather than a long journey, in the thermal suit the camp lends. The programme around the ride carries equal weight: a guide tells stories about Sami culture, the Indigenous people of this region, and explains the reindeer herding tradition that shapes life in Sápmi.

You also help feed the animals.

If a longer ride is what you came for, this is the wrong product. The Long Reindeer Sledding and Sami Culture Tour from Tromsø offers 30 minutes on the sled, and the Reindeer Sledding and Sami Cultural Tour with Lunch near the Lyngen Alps runs up to 30 minutes through a row of sleds with mountain views. Both cost a little more than this day.

After the reindeer encounter you ride the minibus back to Camp Tamok, where a warm meal waits in one of the traditional lavvus, the Indigenous Sámi tent. The meal is a warm stew with drinks included. You gather around the open fire, warm up from the cold and trade stories with the other travellers.

The lavvu setting

A lavvu is the Sámi tent. Sitting inside one by firelight with a hot bowl in your hands is the cultural core of this trip, alongside the storytelling at the reindeer enclosure. The format appears on most Tromsø reindeer tours, but at Camp Tamok it comes with the sense of being far from anywhere.

The ride home

When the meal ends you board the bus for the 90-minute run back to Tromsø. The day ends where it started, at Samuel Arnesens gate 5, about 7 hours after departure. Exact departure times are shown at checkout, so check your slot before you plan anything else around the day.

The lavvu where the meal is served is the traditional Sámi tent.

This listing fits three kinds of traveller. First, people who want the wilderness factor and accept the bus time as the price of it. Second, families with children aged 4 and up.

The short sled ride, hand feeding and storytelling make a varied day. Third, travellers who have already done other Tromsø activities and want something off the beaten track.

• Not suitable for children under 4 years
• Not suitable for wheelchair users
• Difficulty is easy, no fitness requirement
• English-speaking guides throughout
• Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start

Who should book something else

Skip this listing if you have limited mobility, since wheelchair users cannot be accommodated. Look elsewhere too if your priority is time on the sled or a very large herd, or if a 7-hour day with 3 hours of driving sounds like too much. The Reindeer Sledding and Feeding with a Sami Guide from Tromsø compresses a similar programme into 4 hours closer to town, and the Sami Reindeer Sledding, Lasso and Lavvu Meal in Nordkjosbotn offers a small-group day with a Sami family about an hour from the city.

Seven hours sounds like a long day with the reindeer, but most of it is travel and kit. The listing gives about 90 minutes on the bus each way, which is three hours before anything else happens. Then comes the change into the thermal suit, a short minibus hop to the herd, the ride, the feeding and the storytelling, and finally the meal in the lavvu.

• About 90 minutes by bus from Samuel Arnesens gate 5 to Camp Tamok
• Kit-up: thermal suit, winter boots, mittens and hat
• A short minibus transfer to the reindeer, which are kept away from the dog yard
• A short sled ride, feeding and Sami storytelling with a herd of 5-6 reindeer
• Warm stew and drinks by the fire in a lavvu
• About 90 minutes by bus back to Tromsø

Is the trip worth the distance?

It is if you want a day in the valley as much as time with reindeer. If the ride and a big herd matter more, the Long Reindeer Sledding and Sami Culture Tour from Tromsø gives 30 minutes in the sled and a herd of about 300 in 4 hours. Children under 4 and wheelchair users cannot join this trip.

Camp Tamok is the long day in this catalog: 7 hours, about three of them on the bus, for a short ride with a small herd. The table sets it against the trips it most often gets weighed against. Figures current for Q4 2026.

Shorter days with more sled time

If the ride matters more than the setting, two trips give you more minutes for a similar price and a shorter day.