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Holiday place to see Northern Lights close to Tromso
Who is ready to enjoy holidays in an arctic place that fits perfect to see northern lights close to Tromso? You, for sure! Join us at Ersfjordbotn Brygge!
1st FACT: people who plan to come to Tromso to see Northern Lights use so much time to hunt the Green Lady without being sure to see something, without being sure to take any pictures of it. 2ND FACT: if you invest in a guide tour, you increase your chance. A LAST FACT: if you choose to stay out of Tromso, in a holiday place to see Northern Lights you will have the biggest chance ever. And so, Ersfjordbotn Brygge appears!
Ersfjordbotn Brygge is a company which enables people to stay in a cosy apartment not so far from Tromsø (25min) to enjoy many arctic activities like shooting Northern Lights, fishing, and so much more.
A cosy place to rest
Ok we know, Northern Norway is cold. Having a cosy appartement to enjoy to go back and forth as much as you want, is important. And stay calm, you can rent a car, request taxi, or take the city bus lines to move from the village to anywhere else.
Stay free, but stay cosy!
But the cherry on the cake is that you don’t need especially to move to see Northern Lights. Actually, the village of Ersfjordbotn is one of the best spot in the corner. Even if every Northern Light is different, most of the time, the Green Lady appears front of the fjord opening (Ersfjorden), and follow the fjord line to arrive up to Ersfjordbotn.
Thanks to that, you don’t have to go far from your holiday place to hunt, you just have to open the door and use your camera! Enjoy and come to the most well-known place to take pictures of Northern Lights.
After that, when you get bored because you will have too much pictures from here with the Aurora, you will be able to book a tour with our specialist, a photograph and local guide. He will be able to share some tips to upgrade your pics and to show you other really good spots around there.
Now you can dream about a comfy place to stay to meet the Green Lady, you know Ersfjordbotn Brygge!
Northern Lights Norway: experience a chase in Northern Norway
When you decide to travel to see the Northern Lights, you have to invest in a real chase. It is not only to have better chance to see them, but it is also to live a special experience in Northern Norway.
In Northern Norway, you are up to the Polar Circle, so you have better chance to see some Northern Lights than anywhere else in Norway. But where to go? How to know when to see them and how to catch them with a camera? For that, you just need to come with us, at Ersfjordbotn Brygge and experience a chase!
Northern Lights Chase in Norway
Why call we that a chase? This is just because it is tricky, but so awesome to see that it worths it!
Actually, a such experience consists to start early by night…well night here in Northern Norway can start early…2 PM! But we use to start our tour at 6:30 PM.
Just a reminder that up to the Polar Circle, you have the Polar Night and the Midnight Sun. One stays down to the horizon line during almost 2 months (from November to January) , the second stays up during the same time but in summer.
Joking aside, if you want to meet the Northern Lights, called also Aurora or the Green Lady, you need to have it above you in the sky basically. For checking that, here in Northern Norway, we use some apps on smartphone which notify us when it is coming.
To imagine the phenomenon, we can describe it like a cloud turning up to the globe, with more or less density and intensity and never the same shape. We have also apps to inform us how it looks like hour by hour. So imagine coming here without any of these tips, you can stay in the coldness from daytime to nighttime, and never see anything!
With our professional northern lights chaser, we decide where it is the less cloudy in order to have better chance to see it. But don’t worry you are at the best place in the world to see them! Once, we have an itinerary we can start to drive until the time that special magnetic colored cloud is above us and just cross fingers to see something. Like we use to say:
We have the skills but unfortunately any button to switch on it!
Northern Lights Norway: more than a chase, a real Norwegian experience
To across the area where we decide to chase, we are in a mini bus, with a local driver. So don’t worry, he knows perfectly how to drive on ice with spikes wheels of course!
Besides, our time of travelling is also really interesting because on the one hand, we have time to share with you some local stories, cultural and traditional ones…
On the other hand, you can see along the road our specials friends which come up when it is quiet and dark: polar animals like moose, fox, otter, reindeer, wolves, wolverine etc…!
When we will be outside, ok it could be really cold but we provide special suits, we make bonfire, we drink warm tea, coffee, soup… Like we are Norwegian, we know perfectly how to stay good outside for a long time. From Vikings, we are use to enjoy an outside living, so be part of it!
As you can now understand, chasing is not only meeting the Aurora, it is also discovering another part of our lifestyle, our story and our animals.
More informations about Northern Lights Tour are available in our website dedicated to activities you can do with Ersfjordbotn Brygge.
To finish, spend few minutes just to discover our cabin “Rorbu” to rent at our address to stay and enjoy the Fjord-lifestyle. Our village is one of the most famous and closest to Tromsø, well-known also to see beautiful northern lights.