One of the main reasons we wanted
to visit Iceland was to see the northern lights. We visited in mid-October, so
we knew we had a chance. Instead of trying to rally and see them the day we
landed we scheduled our outing for the next night.
We booked our tour with Happy World and here is why it was worth it:
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They picked you up right at your door step (or
hotel). Since we were staying at an AirBnB this was perfect since all we had to
do was step outside
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They took professional pictures and gave us
copies of every. single. one. It was about 100 pictures from the night
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They had a telescope for star gazing
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Served us homemade hot chocolate and Icelandic
pastries
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And stayed past the official end of the tour to
capture more pictures
So, the tour ran from 8pm to
midnight. It was pretty cloudy but that night the kp index was good so we had
our fingers crossed. You could definitely see the bands/ribbons behind some of
the clouds. Midnight rolled around and hadn’t really seen a clear shot of
illusive lights. There was a break in the clouds coming our way and guides told
us we would wait for that opening and keep our fingers crossed. When that
opening reached us we looked up and there they were! Dancing above us with a
beautiful coronal display.
It was amazing to say the least. We
ended up staying out there till about 1am.
We were very fortunate to see the
northern lights since the remainder of our trip stayed cloudy and overcast.
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