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Book indigenous-owned and-operated tours and accommodations such as these and your travel dollars will benefit the people whose culture you experience.
Sled with Sámi reindeer herders
Respect for nature runs deep among the Sámi, the native people of far northern Europe. The tour company Nutti Sámi Siida, based in remote Swedish Lapland, was founded after two Sámi reindeer herders began offering corral tours as a way to help feed their animals during a particularly bad winter. It now offers stays in wooden cabins at Reindeer Lodge, plus activities such as reindeer sledding and aurora chasing in winter and watching newborn calves take their first wobbly —YULIA DENISYUK
