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Wild Swimming Day Tours
Explore the best wild swimming spots in Helsinki Region with a local swimming guide. Enjoy wild swimming in the beautiful archipelago of Helsinki. Experience a wild swim-walk tour in wilderness in Nuuksio National Park, where there are over 80 little lakes and ponds. Choose from a three-hour urban swim tour to a six-hour swim-walk trek in nature. You can also book a swim guide/lifeguard service for your long distance open water swimming and training in Helsinki Region.You can book a swimming … Read More
Wild Swimming Holidays
How about plunging into Finland’s innumerable lakes? Unspoiled small lakes in silence or vast lakes with varying sceneries. Or if sea swimming is your preference, wild swimming in Baltic Sea and discovering its unique archipelago is your thing. We organise wild swimming holidays for single travelers and small groups and find the best spots for your wild swimming holiday. Finnish Lakeland is the largest Lake District in Europe. There’s private shoreline for everyone, clear waters and islands and islands and islands…Glittering … Read More
Open Water Swimming Helsinki Region
Enjoy outdoor swimming in clear waters of Helsinki Region. Explore open water swimming locations in the Baltic Sea and enjoy its beautiful Archipelago. Or train open water swim in Kaitalampi, the #ows paradise of the region. Our professional swim guide/beach lifeguard takes you to the best open water swimming locations and takes care of swim safety. You can hire a wetsuit, a swim hat, goggles and a tow float for you swims. Book a three-hour swim adventure, half or whole … Read More
Lake Päijänne Swim Tours
We are happy to invite you to Lake Päijänne. Swim outdoors, relax and sleep well on our holiday. Daily open water swims offer you magnificent lake sceneries with steep rocks, sandy eskers, isolated lagoons and small islets. Päijänne National Park with its archipelago and vast open water is a treasure for swimmers and outdoor lovers. Water in Lake Päijänne is so clean that you can drink it! Villa Takila apartments are high-class holiday apartments with Finnish design.
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New services in Helsinki Region
Swimming Holidays in Finland offers swim guiding and SUP instructor services in Helsinki Region in summer 2016. Read more: New Services
New testimonials
Our guests from last summer wrote few lines of their experiences. Read what Pekka and Douce wrote: New testimonials
SWHF awarded Best Newcomer
Swimming holidays in Finland was awarded The Best Travel Business Newcomer year 2015 in Lohja area on the 4th of March 2016.
New Swim Tour now available!
We are happy invite swimmers to the second biggest lake in Central Finland. Lake Päijänne is clean and clear vast open water, the freshwater source of Helsinki citizens. Lake Päijänne National Park is famous of its esker islands, sandy beaches and lagoons. Accommodation on Lake Päijänne Swim Tour is in high-class Villa Takila, which is furnished and decorated with Finnish design and which also includes a traditional wood-fired sauna. This holiday includes transport from and to Helsinki Airport. Distance to Villa … Read More