So I was just in Norway and had one of the best days so far!!! My friend and I headed all the way up to the Arctic Circle to a town called Tromso. We got there to a very sorry tourist information lady who told us there wasn’t enough snow to go dog-sledding, ice fishing, snow shoeing, reindeer sledding or snowmobile racing...which was pretty much a list of everything we’d gone there to do!!!
But, us in our ‘determined-to-go-dog-sledding’ ways, sent an email to a company we had been in contact with to see if they were actually running tours, and...they were!!!!!
So the next day, we got picked up to be driven 1.5hours away into the mountains, where we hopped on to a sled covered in reindeer skin, led by 10 huskies!!! It was amazing fun!!! The scenery was spectacular, and the dogs were amazingly well trained. The driver just whispers “left” or “right”, and the dogs turn! So well-trained!!!
We were allowed to drive the sled, which was absolutely hilarious!!! We fell out 3 times, but it’s fine, because you just land in snow!!!!
We were then treated to a traditional Sami meal of reindeer meat with mountain berries cooked over an open fire in a reindeer skin tent.
But, as if the day couldn’t already get better, in the night we headed off on a Northern Lights Tour and SAW them!!!! They were absolutely extraordinary!! At the start there was just a green cloud that stretched over the sky, but then the guide took us to a fjord. There, the sky totally lit up with purple, red and green stripes everywhere that danced all over the sky! Everyone was literally yelling “WOW” into the sky!!
Two things I’ve always wanted to do accomplished in one day! I was so ecstatic! :D