Showing posts with label Norway. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Norway. Show all posts

Saturday, November 13, 2010

The Best Place To See Aurora Borealis

Aurora Borealis or popular with the northern light is a phenomenon that rare to be happen. Only in special time the aurora is showing. But, if you fortunate to look at, surely you will be amazed while you looking at natural painting the Almighty creation.

This Aurora Borealis is formed by particles of the earth's atmosphere interaction with charged particles from the sun (plasma). In this world not anyplace can look this amazing natural painting. If you want, this 5 place are the best place to look at the Aurora Borealis.

1. The Oulanka National Park (Finland)
In order to see the beautiful Aurora Borealis, you must surely that the condition is clear (it mean there are not foggy )and dark (it mean not poluted by any light). Oulanka National Park located exactly in south of the Arctic Circle. It will give you the best opportunity to see the Aurora Borealis. You should visit the place in early October and November, and also late March and April.

You can do the outdoor activity that prepared by Oulanka National Park while you are waiting for the Aurora Borealis. Then, you better to stay at Basecamp Oulanka with the comfortable rooms and equipped with the sauna and also the hot water pool that facing the lake.

Eight-day package staying at the Park Oulanka start from 1599 euros per person and usually is started in december until April. You can visit this site for more information. exodus.co.uk

2. Yukon (Canada)

Yukon is the smallest area in the most west of Canada. Yukon is the suit place to see the Aurora Borealis. That light show will appear between September and April, but in January until March is the best opportunity to see
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You might enjoy this Aurora with Bales Worlwide that offer you the seven day with colaboration of the City tour and the Dessert tour, and surely with the main focus is look at the Aurora Borealis. After spent the day in Vancouver, you will fly to whitehorse, the capital of Yukon, towards the High Country lodging.

The High Country lodging equipped with the winter suit that make you fell warm at noon while you do the outdoor activity and look at the North Light or the Aurora Borealis at night. For more information you might visit the site Bales worldwide.com

3. Svalbard Islands (Norway)




Svalbard islands is located in north of Norway about 1000 mil, in the Arctic Circle. These islands is more suit to see the Aurora Borealis. In December will be the best appear opportunity to the Aurora Borealis. Because in this month the sky is will be dark all the day. Enjoy the light will be more impressive with the Base Camp Explorer. You will invited to see the polar bears are rare.

4. Abisko National Park (Sweden)
The remote areas Abisko is claimed the best place to see the Aurora Borealis in the world. You might like to spent the holiday here with Discover the World which offer you the three days package tour between December and March. you can enjoy the national Park activity and stay in Ice Hotel at night, in outside of Kiruna.

To see the Aurora Borealis, the activity will be started from Abisko Mountain station. Beside you will be equipped with the warm suit, you will pass the trip with chairlift along 20 minutes towards the Sky Aurora station at the highest peak in Abisko National Park. There you will enjoy the Aurora in a cafe.
For more information you might visit the site discover-theworld.co.uk.

5.Chena Hot Springs, Alaska
Sixty miles northeast of Fairbanks, Chena Hot Springs Resort offers perfectly remote, summit-top viewing of the aurora borealis. On tours open to resort guests and non-guests alike, snow coaches transport viewers to an area equipped with a heated yurt--because “active and vivid” lights are even more enjoyable when viewed in relative comfort.





Monday, September 27, 2010

Fjords of Norway

Norway is the land of divine beauty that takes you one step closer to nature. It offers plenty to visitors right from mountain skiing, a voyage in the Fjords and hiking. Norway has always been known for its scenic beauty of Fjords, mountains and glaciers. Fjords are defined as a very thin, long, and narrow bay in a valley made by the glaciers. As far as the Fjords of Norway is concerned, it is said to be the perfect holiday outing for visitors and localities. A long strip of sea on a beautiful sunny afternoon is considered a perfect day for tourists. Fjords of Norway are series of landscape mountain that attracts hikers in abundance. The best time to visit this place is from May till September. Tourists find it really adventurous to cruise the Atlantic Fjords and hike the mountains. Bergen, which was once the capital of Norway, is assimilated between seven mountains, said it be the Gateway of Fjords. Norway is very rich in its flora and has a good historical past to attract tourists all across the globe. Visitors come from many places to feel the vertigo from the cliff as they pass by the Fjords. One of the most famous Fjord in Norway is called the Sognafjord, the King of Fjord and is said that the successor of the Norwegian come for fishing. This place is 1200 meters deep and is 200 Kilometers long. One can see fresh water, clear sky, bright flora not to forget the subzero temperature.
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Friday, March 26, 2010

Norway Best Photos & Information

Norway comprises the western part of Scandinavia in Northern Europe. The rugged coastline, broken by huge fjords and thousands of islands, stretches 25,000 kilometres (16,000 mi) and 83,000 kilometres (52,000 mi) including fjords and islands. Norway shares a 1,619-kilometre (1,006 mi) land border with Sweden, 727 kilometres (452 mi) with Finland and 196 kilometres (122 mi) with Russia at the east. To the north, west and south, Norway is bordered by the Barents Sea, the Norwegian Sea, the North Sea and Skagerrak. Norwegian lowland landscape near the Gaulosen branch of Trondheimsfjord Reine in Lofoten, Northern Norway At 385,252 square kilometres (148,747 sq mi) (including Svalbard and Jan Mayen), (and 323,802 square kilometres (125,021 sq mi) without) much of the country is dominated by mountainous or high terrain, with a great variety of natural features caused by prehistoric glaciers and varied topography. The most noticeable of these are the fjords: deep grooves cut into the land flooded by the sea following the end of the Ice Age. The longest is Sognefjorden at 204 kilometres (127 mi). Sognefjorden is the world's second deepest fjord, and the world's longest. Hornindalsvatnet is the deepest lake in all Europe. Frozen ground all year can be found in the higher mountain areas and in the interior of Finnmark county. Numerous glaciers are found in Norway. norway
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Saturday, December 19, 2009

Visit to Nordfjord Distric at Western Norway

Nordfjord is a fjord and a traditional district in the county of Sogn og Fjordane in Western Norway. The district comprises the municipalities of Selje, V?gs?y, Bremanger, Eid, Gloppen, Hornindal, and Stryn. Nordfjord covers an area of 4,295 km² and has a population of approximately 32,965.

The fjord, sixth longest in Norway, is 106 km long and encompasses the rough coastline of Stadhavet as well as the glacier Jostedalsbreen, Europe's largest mainland glacier. It also includes Hornindalsvatnet, Europe's deepest lake at 514 meters. The glacier Briksdalsbreen is particularly scenic. Stryn provides year-round downhill skiing, and there are numerous old fishing communities going back to pre-Viking times.
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