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Originally Posted by mbaddah
Fantastic images Chris. I'm planning a trip there later in the year myself specifically to see the northern lights.
Did you do any other activities while there and that you can recommend?
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Thanks Mohammed. We went specifically to see the Northern Lights and timed it to see the eclipse in Svalbard too - see
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...67#post1164167 for a few eclipse pics in another thread.
To see the Northern Lights, you would need to time your trip so that there is plenty of night sky. Even though the Arctic regions we visited in Norway were still coming out of Winter into Spring, the Southern sky did not get completely dark in the third week of March, so definitely not much chance of seeing an aurora from about early April until some time in October. Of course, the further South you are, the later the dark skies remain.
Apart from chasing aurorae (and plenty of companies specialise in that - with bus trips departing daily / nightly with durations of 6 - 11 hours), the other main activities on offer are dog sledding, ice fishing, and snow mobiling. The dog sledding is fun - we did a couple of trips, which typically last half a day. We also did a 150 km snow mobile trip which gave us a chance to see places that that are not practically reachable via any other method. And then, there is just lots of very spectacular mountain and fjord scenery. We hired a car and travelled nearly 2,500 km.
Good luck with your planning - there is a lot of info on the internet.
Cheers, Chris