The Experience Hotel Taivaanvalkeat and the Elves’ Experience Village combined make a unique experience destination on the quiet riverbank of the Ounasjoki river. You can feel Lapland’s enchanting magic here and breathe the cleanest air in Europe.
The hotel is suitable for accommodation, special events and meetings. On the other hand, the courtyard offers unlimited possibilities for a variety of activities. This is an excellent place for groups, families or just for you when you want to experience something a bit different.
The Elves’ Experience Village is a well-known and attractive tourist destination based on stories and mythology, filled with fun activities and open all year round. The allure of the Elves’ Experience Village is based on stories, fairy tales, culture, fantasy and mythology. It is nature’s own amusement park. The destination combines two strong travel trends: nature and cultural tourism.
The Elves’ Experience Village is located in Lapland, 180km north of the Arctic Circle in Kittilä, in the Köngäs village only 8km from Levi. It’s easy to get here by car, plane, train or on a bus.
Step into Lapland’s living fairy tale! No one is too old for fairytales.
Open from 6.6.2024 at 10.00 – 16.00
Soup lunch daily 11.00 – 15.30
Palosaarentie 30, 99140 Köngäs, FINLAND
You can get to the cafe-restaurant Tonttula without paying an entrance fee.
You can buy the entrance fee either here or at Tonttula’s café-restaurant. The entrance fee include a self-guided tour of the Elves Village area, where you can find Elves Village buildings, Elves Path, elves Hideaway, Seita stone and much more.
If you want a guided Elf activity, check out our experiences and book yours
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1. Tonttula Café & Souvenier shop / Reception
Every day is Christmas at the Elves’ Village. You will feel the Christmas atmosphere as you enter the main building at the Elves’ Village.
You don’t need to pay an area fee when you visit our cafe.
2. Hotel Taivaanvalkeat
Have an unforgettable experience at Hotel Taivaanvalkeat. This is an excellent place for groups, families or just for you when you want to experience something a bit different.
3. Country House
Next to the main house is a separate Country house of four bedrooms, kitchen and sauna. It can be reserved together with the main house for up to 38 persons or for smaller group to stay privately.
4. Aurora Pyramids
When you stay at the glass-roofed Aurora Pyramids, you can almost touch the ever-changing sky, nature and its forces. Heavenly nature and the Firmament present themselves through the glass roof in a new way, every day. The Aurora pyramids (11 of them) are situated at Tonttula Experience village.
5. Elves Henhouse
Included in the area fee:
The Elves’ Village has beautiful chickens which are a cross between two chicken breeds, the dwarf chicken and the silkie. They love broadleaf plantain, and they all have their own crazy habits. One of the chickens is called Pikku-Musta (Little Blacky). Pikku-Musta is the most interested in people and sometimes likes to play hide-and-seek.
6. Elves Homes Museum
Near the parking lot, there are three wonderful sheds that have been decorated as “Elf Museums”, they are opened every morning when the Elf is open for customers to admire.
The inhabitants of the elf huts delight children, but even an adult can be amazed when they peek inside!
8. Riverside kiln
The Riverside Kiln is also a great meeting space with a large table for up to eight people.
Riverside Kiln also serves as a cozy dressing room in addition to the sauna’s small fireplace room. The Riverside Kiln has a private toilet.
Riverside Kilncan also be booked private use.
9. Water demondell
Included in the area fee:
Forest demons live in the middle of a gloomy forest in Demondell, where the head of the demons rule over them. Demons hide in demon castles that just look like piles of stones to humans. But if you see a large sword by a door, you know demons live there. In the water, these evil spirits are ruled by the Water Demon, who harasses fishermen. Earth demons live close by the gnomes’ dwellings.
On Elf in a yellow dress and The Secret of the Seita Stone book you can read more!
10. Gold panning
An elf specializing in gold panning will guide you to the secrets of this Lapland tradition – maybe you’ll find your own little piece! Additional paid program.
Not in use in summer 2024
11. Herb garden
The forest gnome’s favorite hobby is collecting natural herbs and processing them to benefit people.
When you visit the herb garden, you can, for example, taste licorice, cumin, rhododendron or mint and learn what kind of healing herbs can be obtained from herbs.
12. Cheeps
Baa baas are the Elves’ Village sheep and they are the mother of twins, the timid Nipsu and the lively Nöpsö which both love food. The sheep’s favourite foods are fireweed, bread, roots, and especially carrots. Sometimes these cunning sheep, which are also fond of delicacies, decide to go on a food hunt by themselves because they know where the elves keep their dried bread. After their food hunt, they quickly return to their safe paddock.
In the summer, the sheep take care of the lawn and the riverbank. In the winter, the Knitting Elf Nuttu knits wool socks and mittens using their wool.
13. Forest path
The elves are doing their own thing in the hidden areas of the forest of experiences. A lucky wanderer will find an elf’s cabin or hiding place. The path leads the guest to the most secret place in the elf world, Elves Hideaway.
14. Elves Hideaway
Included in the area fee:
The Experience Forest Path leads guests to the most secret place in the elven world, The Elves’ Hideaway.
The Elves’ Hideaway are located Gingerbread house, Elf School and The Hut of Knowledge.
* This is great spot take a pic! Please use #elvesvillage that we can see your wonderfull pic!
15. Bear chair
Included in the area fee:
“The Bear-Chair stood majestically on the mossy forest floor. Sailor-Smith Elf had done some fine work. The features of the sacred animal were just like a real bear, and it was good to sink into its lap. At first, the seat felt a bit hard under her bottom, but after a while it felt as if she was sitting on a thick, soft pillow, it was so warm and comfy. The sitter felt safe, too – she was now in the lap of the bear, the king of the forest.”
On Elf in a yellow dress and The Secret of the Seita Stone book you can read more!
16. Seita stone
Included in the area fee:
You will see a large stone. A giant fir has grown on it since long ago. In the stump, all that’s left now of the fir, there’s a crow’s nest. This is the dwelling of the Great Avariti, who watches carefully anyone who approaches the stone. The roots of the fir have wound into the cracks of the stone over hundreds of years. You have arrived at the Seita-stone.
* This is great spot take a pic! Please use #elvesvillage that we can see your wonderfull pic!
17. Santas vehicles
Included in the area fee:
Santa’s vehicles Höpsö helicopter, Rudolf rednose’s sleigh, 200-year-old bike and gift sleigh
18. Tempple
Included in the area fee:
This pleasant Temple in the Elves’ Village is located in the Elves’ Experience Village courtyard and it is a place you should definitely visit!
The idea behind the Temple is that any guest who comes here can spend a quiet moment in the Temple with his or her book of faith in their own language. Books of faith already exist in several languages.
19. Blacksmith’s workshop
Included in the area fee:
Welcome to the new build – Blacksmith’s workshop – which is made in the old style.
Do you know everything that has been done with these tools and goods in the past?
Story of the Elf in a yellow dress -book and Elf in a ayellow dress and secret of Seita Stone -book is available on the Tonttula Café and www.hulluporo.fi/webshop (We can deliver books only inside the EU.)
When you want to experience something a bit different