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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Welcome to Sweden 2

In Kiruna town where everything is white, we spotted these cute stuff.

PS: the dog is damn cute can!

And we tooka train ride to the cold and wilderness- Abisko

In Abisko, we stayed at the turiskstation and it looks like this:

Snowing, our dinner after hiking to the supermarket in darkness along the highway for 40 mins,

and the ikea look alike kitchen that i LOVE!

Why do we go to the lappland abisko, which is located in the artic circle for?
it is all for this!!! AURORA aka northern lights.

Auroras, sometimes called the northern and southern (polar) lights or aurorae (singular: aurora), are natural light displays in the sky, usually observed at night, particularly in the polar regions. They typically occur in the ionosphere. They are also referred to as polar auroras.

In northern latitudes, the effect is known as the aurora borealis, named after the Roman goddess of dawn, Aurora, and the Greek name for north wind, Boreas, by Pierre Gassendi in 1621.[1] The aurora borealis is also called the northern polar lights, as it is only visible in the sky from the Northern Hemisphere, with the chance of visibility increasing with proximity to the North Magnetic Pole. (Earth's is currently in the arctic islands of northern Canada.) Auroras seen near the magnetic pole may be high overhead, but from further away, they illuminate the northern horizon as a greenish glow or sometimes a faint red, as if the sun were rising from an unusual direction. The aurora borealis most often occurs near the equinoxes. The northern lights have had a number of names throughout history. The Cree people call this phenomenon the "Dance of the Spirits." In the middle ages the auroras have been called a sign from God (see Wilfried Schröder, Das Phänomen des Polarlichts, Darmstadt 1984).

Some people camped for 4 days and they couldnt catch it.
But as a lucky bunch who brave the cold ( negative 20?) and trek again in the darkness to Lake Tobe,
we saw it!
We wished that we had a SLR with us at the point of time. but this 10 mp camera is still able to work:

this Aurora is just an intensity of 1 out of 10. if you have a chance to go to the north pole where these lights will be dancing over you, it will be super nice! google it and see what i meant.

We were really elated, really lucky and really blessed to see this. As we waited for the lights, we hid in the house(away from the howling wind and freezing temperature) in the photo that has such a fire place:

this is when i realised what i learnt in girl guides is nothing. This fire is started by chopping the wood with the axe, peeling the pine tree bark as they burnt easier and also the arrangement of fire woods to let oxygen flow and the fire to start. i am super duper proud if Mr YJ Lee as he learnt all these damn fast!

The next day, we went out for some picture taking, just to let you guys see how wild the whole place is:

The common sight. The day light only lasted for 5 hours?

A frozen river. RIVER leh gosh!

This is how cold i was!

For us to swipe our shoes b4 going into the building

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Labels: travel


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