Tue, 05 Jan 2010
sweden, day 09
we decided to go back to abisko once again. first of all because
they had a free room for us, secondly because we still hadn't
seen any northern lights so far, and thirdly we still wanted to
take the skidoo tour. abisko seemed the perfect place for that.
also there were caves and frozen waterfalls around the place. we
wanted to go there. so the first thing of this day was to drive
back again for three hours. unfortunately no guided tour was
offered for the caves, so we decided to see the frozen water-
falls[01-30].
afterwards we drove back to the hostel, had again the very
unique sauna-experience they offer there at abisko, when
suddenly... we saw them! at 21:44 some chinese guy rushed into
our room and said that there are northern lights outside. at
first we didn't believe it, because a few days ago a chinese
said he spotted them, but it turned out to be only a cloud in
the sky. actually there were a lot of chinese people there. one
said that's because there seems to be a very popular blog on a
trip through north-sweden. it also mentions this hostel we
stayed at we were told. additionally asian people believe that
seeing northern lights gives a long life and loads of luck for
the future. that's why we saw asian people quite often in
sweden. but this time there really were northern lights. un-
fortunately not very bright and strong, but hey, at least there
were some.
yippieh, we finally saw northern lights! again all my equip-
ment froze including the tripod. i only took it with me to take
northern lights pictures with it, and then some joints and
turning handles just froze - weird. since, once more, also the
battery pack stopped working, i couldn't take more pictures of
this beautiful phenomenom.
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