Example tours in and around Helsinki

Suggestions

1. Private Helsinki city tour, 4 hours, including a visit to the Rock Church

Including my services as guide and transportation in a nice minivan
Price: EUR 800.-

2. Porvoo Old Town, 6 hrs

Including my services as guide and transportation
Finnish lunch at a gourmet restaurant in Porvoo ( lunch at your own cost)
Price: EUR 1190.- (lunch not included)

3. Helsinki and Finnish Traditional history, duration 5 - 6 hours

  - including Seurasaari open air museum and/or the National museum of Finland

4. Sibelius Ainola tour, 

which can be extended to Hämeenlinna, Sibelius' birth home and Aulanko

5. Helsinki Art & Architecture

- Hvitträsk, the home museum of Eliel Saarinen
- Tarvaspää art Gallery, Akseli Gallen-Kallela
* including a tour of Art Nouveau architecture in Helsinki
OR
Alvar Aalto, studio & home in Munkkiniemi, Finlandia Hall, etc.
OR any other art gallery: Ateneum, Kiasma, Didrichsen, Amos Andersson etc.

https://www.toursbylocals.com/Helsinki-Tour-Architecture-Art-Design


6. Two days tour in Central Finland. Felt & Artesans. Visit an artist at his studio, meeting the artist himself.

WWW.TOURSBYLOCALS.COM/Felt-Route-Central-Finland-Tour

7. Fiskars village. 

Art & Artesans, designers. Glass blowing. Pottery. Nature.
Duration from Helsinki, minimum 6 hours total, driving time one way 1 hr 15 min
Also a visit to the Design Museum can be included.

8. Find your Finnish roots. Start with Hanko, emmigrant history. 3 or 4 days, around Finland.

9. Food Sightseeing 

At lunch time: visit Stockmann Basement food hall, walk through the Old Market Hall, have some street food at the open air market, some season's berries for desert, maybe ice cream, a cup of coffee  etc.

Food Sightseeing Lunch
- duration 3 hours
- including:
  a ride on the public transport tram, all taste samples (reindeer & salmon),
  glass of wine or Finnish beer, a cup of Finnish coffee,
  Street Food Lunch at the Market Square OR Market Hall