Auroras – Northern Lights – Rovaniemi

We head to a private, light-pollution-free location with open northern views. While waiting for the lights, relax in a warm tepee by the open fire, enjoy light snacks, and soak in the silence of the Arctic night. Your professional guide will take high-quality photos of you during the program, whether the Northern Lights appear or not, ensuring you always leave with memorable keepsakes and added value from your Arctic experience.

The experience concludes at our cosy Wilderness Lodge, where your guide shares more about the Northern Lights and Lappish culture.

At the lodge, you’ll also have access to proper indoor restroom facilities, and the lodge offers snacks and drinks for purchase, along with local handicrafts, postcards and selected lodge products, perfect as memorable keepsakes or gifts.

If the Northern Lights do not appear, you may join the tour once again free of charge within the following two weeks, subject to availability.

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Photographer Donald Burghardt says: 

I have been going with this company 13 times in 10 years now, accumulating to 109 days and my 14th time is booked for march 2024.

Lapland Welcome has many safaris but specifically the Northern Lights Tour is the best you can possibly have. Lapland Welcome has a huge private hill which oversees a vast sky of some 8000 km2 with a horizon at some 70 km (specific photo attached). As you are on a high hill you will see a sky stretching very far over that already far horizon. This hill has its own micro climate which is able to open a not to thick cloud cover (specific photo attached). The weather system is volatile so chasing holes in the clouds is no realistic option and therefor very bad for the environment. Chasing the lights is nonsense anyway as they are at a minimum level of 80km up to 350km above the surface of the planet so the circle of visibility is some 600 km on average. If you want to get closer to them you'd have to drive at least 300 km which will take you at least 4 hours and by that time the lights will have moved anyway. So no… chasing is madness unless you can get from under the clouds but as I already said that is hardly an option too. From the Lapland Welcome hill we have seen the lights at distances of 1200+ km away because they are that high above the Earth and the view is unobstructed. Take an easy evening with alternative programs in case either the light won’t show or the clouds are to thick though in that case the clouds will show green themselves on your camera, imagine that! (Two specific photos attached) And… warm snacks and beverages as much as you want and… toilets at the base of the hill!

Check Donald's authentic pictures. All pictures were shot on our tours: 

https://www.donaldburghardt.photography/2019/galleries/geo/atmosphere/aurora-borealis-albumset/