Hi! If anyone has experience with Northern Norway, I'd love some advice planning a trip:
I'm planning a trip with my mother to see the midnight sun this coming summer and I'm considering these three locations! We'll be there somewhere between June 25-July 10 for about a week, coming from Copenhagen.
As far as activities go, we're definitely interested in hiking, seeing nature, maybe a boat trip through the fjords, and eating good fish, and from what I can tell, this is pretty possible in all three! I originally was just thinking Tromsø, but I've seen many people online recommend Lofoten over Tromsø, though I can't quite tell why. As for Svalbard, well it's just sort of a fantasy that I've always had of visiting the high arctic, but I recently saw that getting there is not so horribly expensive or difficult so I added it to my considerations!
Important note: I cannot explain to you why, but my mom has always been completely smitten with the idea of seeing the complete midnight sun (not just kind of light at midnight, but that disk approaching the horizon and going right back up without completely dipping below), so it's very important that I plan a trip with the greatest chances of seeing this. I don't fully get it, but it's important to her so it's important to me. I do know it's not always possible due to weather, but I want to give us the best chance at it.
Here's my understanding of all three:
Tromsø
- Easier, cheapest to get to (1 stop, $200-300)
- Medium sized city with more restaurants, museums, hotels, etc.
- Plenty of infrastructure for tours, activities.
- Easy to get around
- Beautiful, but less pristine nature than other two?
Lofoten
- Much more difficult/expensive to get to (either 2 stops flight, flight+drive, flight+ferry, $500+)
- Less town, more wilderness than Tromsø
- More beautiful?
- Most southern, least complete midnight sun chances
Svalbard
- Easy to get to, but more expensive than Tromsø (1 stop, $400-500)
- Smallest town, even more wilderness
- Highest chances of midnight sun
- HIGH arctic (ie. so cool but also colder)
- Need to book more things, as you cant really go off hiking on your own (can't leave town w/o rifle)
If anyone has any input, I'd be grateful. Thank you for reading this too long post!
Submitted December 30, 2019 at 05:02PM by alexs1214 https://ift.tt/39AFVcK
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