It’s time to set sail once again, this time on a boat that lasts just 20 minutes but which takes you and your Vespa to a world, if possible, even more spectacular and dominated by nature, Sweden. Try now to imagine a land of deserted lakes where blankets of endless clouds make the sky a perpetual and hypnotic perspective. Hours of light that lengthen and a night that fades away kilometer after kilometre, withdraws, beats a retreat. The route to the Far North is a bath of light that warms body and soul and which you will no longer be able to do without.

There is Mal d’Afrique, it is true, but you will discover that it is nothing compared to the attraction of the Earth’s Poles. Together with your traveling companions you will marvel at a beauty that at home, at the absurd speed of our lives or simply because we are polluted by unimportant things, you are unable to touch, while Everything is Different Now.

With more than half of Sweden behind you, you are now a completely new person when, riding your Vespa, you enter the geographical area which perhaps more than any other in the world is capable of captivating the imagination of every adventurer. We are talking about Lapland and the Arctic Circle, home of Checkpoint number 4 of Rovaniemi.

A wonderful and uninterrupted kaleidoscope of colours, of a powerful and wild nature that makes its voice heard everywhere and that you, on the saddle of a Vespa and having arrived from Italy together with Pilots from all over Europe, have the privilege of living without filters.

Indeed, it is here, in the Arctic Circle, the geographical outpost that you will conquer upon entering Lapland, that you will truly understand, in an indelible and all-encompassing way, how Great the Experience you have chosen to have can be, on the saddle of your Vespa, by enrolling in the Nordkapp Classic Raid II.

From this point on, you will see it with your own eyes, no one will be able to distract you from the wonder that surrounds you. These are the last 700 km before the North Cape and nothing, we guarantee, will remain more indelible in your eyes than the pristine and crystalline beauty of these fairytale Arctic landscapes.

This territory is a right that you will conquer and that no one can take away from you. A right that will stay with you for the rest of your life.

The Magic of the Fjords

 But let’s get back on the road in commentary mode..

Now you are in Lakselv and guess what? For the umpteenth time a completely new landscape opens up before you, that of the Porsangerfjord and the Barents Sea. It is the Arctic, in its purest and most authentic interpretation. From the saddle of your Vespa you caress lunar landscapes and inlets that follow the ancestral rhythm of the tides, while in front of you peaceful families of reindeer graze undisturbed everywhere. The stockfish drying in the wind and the fishermen’s outposts, the scent of seaweed and the End of the World.

You are alive. And incredibly lucky.