Experience extraordinary bird life at Ekkerøy

Certified by Ecotourism Norway.

Ekkerøy Holiday House offers environmentally friendly accommodation close to nature in Northern Norway. Bird watching is the ultimate experience here.

Ekkerøy Holiday House is close to the arctic zone, in the Varanger area in eastern Finnmark.

Bird watching

Trying to find birds can be a difficult task. Varanger has many exclusive species and excellent bird watching areas, but little information on when and where you can find the birds.

As a bird watching guest at Ekkerøy Holidayhouse, you can use the new self-guiding system. The system consist of a GPS navigator with pre-programmed points of interest. Each point has an information folder with a detailed description of which birds you can expect to find and which strategy to use to have the best chance of success.

Getting to Ekkerøy

You may travel by the coastal steamer (Vadsø is a regular stop) or by direct plane from Oslo to Kirkenes. Here you may hire a car and drive about two hours to Ekkerøy. Another alternative is to take a smaller plane accross the fjord from Kirkenes to Vadsø. The trip takes about 10 minutes. To drive from Vadsø airport to Ekkerøy takes 10 minutes.

Accommodation

Ekkerøy Holiday House is a sertified ecotourism company and a good place of residence for bird watching.

Ekkerøy Holiday House rents out appartments and a house with an interesting history. The accommodation offers are based on do-it-yourself housekeeping with a fully equipped kitchen, bathroom, living room, bedrooms and you will find a birch log sauna. There is a beautiful view to the Varangerfjord.

The house and the apartments are excellent night stops as they are close to the well known bird mountain and bird life in general in the area. Ekkerøy has the richest diversity of birds in Norway as a whole.

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Firstname	Ingjerd
Lastname	Tjelle
Job Title	General Manager
Postal Address	9811 Vadsø
Mobile	+47 90 89 15 58
Webpage	http://www.ekkeroy.net
Released	29/11/2018
Country	Norway
Organization Type	Businesses
Marketplace Type	Certified Green: Activities
Topics	Human Rights & Labour Rights
Operational level	Local