Alta
Our amazing 6 days/6 nights Orca Safari in the stunningly beautiful fjords every year in November !
These expeditions offer an amazing chance to spend time snorkelling with these most intelligent and fascinating creatures and experiencing grandeur and beauty of north-west Norway.
These expeditions offer an amazing chance to spend time snorkelling with the orca during their feeding season.
November is herring season and this region becomes host to one of the planet’s largest gathering of orca.
Up to 50-60 have been seen at one time – incredible!
Jump on our cosy, warm & well equipped live-aboard vessels. Every day, weather permitting, we will be on the water looking for orcas to swim with for 2/3 hours in our fast zodiac. We will equip you with dry suits and get the cameras ready for action.
The water is often very clear at this time of the year and the photographic opportunities are phenomenal.
Once the swimming done, we will be back on the boat with hot food & every evening, we have lectures from our Orca Expert, who is known internationally as ‘the orca-whisperer’, to learn more about the amazing creatures you came to see!
Oh, and did we tell you?
When the weather is clear and conditions are right in the evenings and early in the morning we may well find
ourselves experiencing the majesty of the beautiful Northern Lights : the AURORA BOREALIS!
A trip of a lifetime!
Please Note: we do not operate day-trips on random dates with the orca
Have any questions?
What is included?
6 DAYS / 6 NIGHT PACKAGE
Transfers : Tour pick up from Alta city to the live-aboard and back at the end of your expedition. Transfer to Alta airport available as part of drop-off on final night.
Shared cabin 6 nights in our comfortable liveaboard boat. Bedlinen and towels for you on board.
All meals / snacks / coffee / tea / soft drinks
Professional chef on board - fabulous food!
Daily swim-with-orca excursions (weather permitting) with a professional guide, on a fast and well-equipped zodiac.
Snorkelling equipment - dry-suit with mask, snorkel, fins and gloves, thinsulate, Aquafloat (Arctic quality all-weather overalls for your time topside on the live-aboard)
USEA Lectures with Orca Expert, Pierre Robert de Latour – USEA CEO and Co-founder. Approx one hour each evening, learning more about the amazing orca!
An evening out on the tender with a Hydrophone for listening to the sound of orca and humpbacks.
Wifi onboard - reception may be variable when out in the fjords.
Choose your date!
2026
NW26A 21 - 27 Nov 2026 ('MS Bergsund')
NW26B 27 Nov - 4 December 2026 ('MS Sjöveien')
Price per person: in NOK (Norwegian Kroner)
NW26A 'MS Bergsund' (shared) 77,500 Kroner
NW26B 'MS Sjöveien'
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Twin Cabin with Portholes & ensuite: (shared) 93,500 Kroner
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Twin Cabin with windows & ensuite: (shared) 100,000 Kroner
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Suite with Double bed with ensuite: 104,500 Kroner
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Single cabin with ensuite: 127,500 Kroner
Other information
Water temperature : about 4 degrees.
Air temperature : from -7°C up to +7° C.
Daylight? From 10:00 hrs to approx 14:00 hrs.
The live-board boat, dry suits and hot food are here to keep you warm the whole time!
Where to fly to?
The nearest airport is in Alta, Northern Norway.
The easiest way to get there is to take a domestic flight from Oslo airport (OSL) to Alta airport (ALF).
Arrival : Alta Airport (ALF)
Departure : Alta Airport (ALF)
Domestic Flights (Inside of Norway) :
Oslo (OSL) – Alta (ALF), Arrival
Alta (ALF) – Oslo (OSL), Departure
(There are many daily flight departures from Tromsö to Alta. Air company: www.sas.no, www.norwegian.no or www.wiederoe.no)
You will need to be at the departure location, in Alta Northern Norway and ready for pick-up from the designated hotel at 4pm on the Saturday of your tour start date – for your transfer to the boat harbour in readiness for our departure on the live-aboard vessel.
Your tour will finish back in Alta on the following Friday at 6 pm.
Our incredible tours to swim with Orcas in the fjords of Norway are now open for 2026
Not included :
- All international flights to Alta
- Travel insurance
This wonderful video below – Norway feeding frenzy – was produced by Atlantic Ridge Productions and
Visualmondo and is from a BBC Blue Planet 2 sequence.
Watching it is just like being there again for us!
Where will you stay?
Tour #NW26A 21 - 27 November 2026 - you will be travelling on the live-aboard boat : the MS Bergsund"
Initially built in the 1950s and formerly a public ferry in northern Norway, MS Bergsund was renovation around 2017, transitioning into a passenger ship. Cabins are equipped with bunk beds, sinks, and porthole windows. Private bathrooms are not provided in the cabins. The boat features five toilets, five showers, and a hot tub on deck, perfect after a swim with the orcas!.
Tour #NW26B 28 Nov - 4 December 2026 - you will be travelling on the live-aboard boat : the"MS Sjöveien"
"MS Sjoveien" is certified for 12 passengers maximum. There are 6 cabins accommodating 2 persons each, 5 toilets and 5 showers.
The lounge has 20 seats for the fascinating evening orca lectures.
On board you will find a sauna and a jacuzzi perfect after a swim with the orcas!
