Northern Lights · Tour

Aurora Evening on a Frozen Lakeside near Rovaniemi

A frozen lake gives you something no forest clearing can: an unbroken horizon. This tour uses one, at an open spot away from any artificial light, where the northern sky is visible all the way down to the treeline. The guide picks the exact viewing spot from that night's conditions, and fills the waiting with how the aurora forms, when it tends to appear, and the legends that were the only available explanation for most of human history. A campfire and a hot drink handle the cold. Whether the sky erupts or stays quiet, the silence out there is the part people describe afterwards.