Ultimate Aurora Photo Tour

Beautiful aurora borealis over mountain at abisko national park, Lapland, Sweden, Northern lights

Overview

Book TripAdvisor’s #1 rated Northern Lights tour in Abisko, Sweden. Led by a professional photographer, you will learn tips and tricks for snapping high-quality aurora shots. Don't miss out on this unique experience!

Tour Snapshot

Duration

4 hours

Level

Easy

Availability

january - march, december

Group

Small (8)

Languages

English

Minimum age

10 years

What to expect

On tour

Northern Lights tours
Professional Photography Guide
DSLR camera & tripod
Backpack
Warm overalls
Headlamp
Warm drink

Transportation

Meet on location
Pick up & drop-off
Optional from some hotels (read more in the description).

Accommodation & Meals

Accommodation
Meals

Itinerary map

Check the itinerary to find out the details of your adventure.

4 hours

Itinerary Overview

At 7:45 p.m., you will meet your guide where you will be given a high-quality camera and we will spend a few minutes explaining how to use it. All of the camera’s settings will be taken care of in advance so that all you have to do is enjoy watching and photographing the aurora borealis. You will also be given a pair of warm overalls to help keep you safe and comfortable during your night in Abisko National Park.

Your nighttime adventure begins at 8:00 p.m. where you will receive your own high-quality DSLR camera. No prior photography experience is needed, as your guide will spend the first part of the tour providing a how-to introduction. All of the settings on the camera are taken care of before you get them so all you will need to know are the basics. If you have a background in photography and wish to learn more about photographing the aurora, let your guide know beforehand so they can customize your experience. This helped us ensure you get the most out of your tour experience and go home with some new skills!

At about 8:30 p.m. we set out into Abisko National Park where we will hunt the whimsical aurora borealis. During your tour your experienced guide will educate you on photography as well as Lapland culture and folklore. Learn about the local interpretations of the Northern Lights over the past centuries and how they interact with nature. We will discuss the solar system and constellations that sit above the park and delve into the science behind the aurora borealis. During our lesson, you'll also learn about solar storms and the impact they could have in the future.

Our tour wraps up around 11:30 p.m. You will head back to your hotel and collect your memory cards with the stellar photographs you took. You won't just make memories, you will be able to take them home!

Pick up Information

Pick-Up:

If you are staying at a hotel in Abisko, pick-up is from 7:30-7:50 p.m. We ask, however, that you be in your hotel lobby by 7:30 p.m. Visitors staying at the STF Abisko Turiststation, please meet your guide in the lobby at 7:45 p.m.

For all Björkliden hotel guests, you can add a roundtrip transfer to your booking at an extra charge of 100 SEK per person. In this case, please be ready for pick-up at 7:15 p.m.

Drop-Off:

The tour ends at 11:30 p.m., at which point you will be transferred back to your hotel.

Prerequisites

Lights Over Lapland tours are created to accommodate as many fitness levels as possible. Our walks are typically less than 1 km (0.62 mi.) in each direction to and from our locations. Keep in mind the weather conditions during our tours are commonly snowy and cold, so proper attire is recommended for the best experience. If you have any physical limitations please let us know at the time of booking so we can accommodate your needs ahead of time.

Please note:

Min age 10 years (Children under 15 yr, need to share a camera with an adult).
Depending on the weather and forecast and to maximize the chances of seeing the lights, the auroras are searched by one of 3 different methods.
- On a modern 4x4 van
- By foot at a nearby teepee
- Ride a cozy sleigh that is pulled by a snowmobile

Packing list

Get ready for your trip, here are some items, you should not forget.

What to bring (Required)

Warm clothes
Headwear
Gloves
Winter Boots

We're here to answer your questions

The pickup time is stated on your voucher and therefore we recommend you to review your voucher carefully. We ask all participants to be ready from the start of the pickup time indicated as you may well be the first pick up of the day. Please be at your assigned location at the right pick up time that you chose when booking the tour.

Wait for your guide at your assigned pick up location.

Have your email and phone number listed with us so we can contact you if we run into any trouble finding you.

View our pick-up locations in Reykjavík.

Alcohol is prohibited on all of our tours before and during activities. If we find the participant to be intoxicated, we will prohibit them from taking part in the activity.

After the activities of the day are finished then you are more than welcome to have a drink and relax.

Yes, we do have a tour into Langjökull Ice Cave that has no minimum age and it is a fantastic option for the whole family. As a Whale Watching with our partner company Special Tours, enjoyable tour for a family traveling with young children, these guys have an enormous success rate in seeing whales (upwards of 98% in the summertime).

If you want to explore parts of Icelandic Highlands than we have our magnificent Landmannalaugar Safari tour that also offers you to bathe in natural hot springs. Almost all of our jeep tours are suitable for children over the age of 6 years old. Then we also have a relaxing experience that we highly recommend, our Golden Circle & Secret Lagoon tour.

We reserve the rights to adjust the itinerary and/or take different routes depending on conditions. Your safety is our number one priority.

Please read more information in our terms and conditions in regards to this matter.

Yes, we have specially trained and certified guide on all of our tours, expect on our self-drive tours.

All of our tours are English guided.

No, for all your questions and concerns you would need to contact our customer service.

In Iceland, the standard is 230V and 50Hz and we use F-type power sockets and plugs. If you are visiting from the UK, USA, Canada or other countries using a different voltage, Hz or plugs, therefore, we highly recommend you to bring an adaptor.

We have four different categories that help participants to get a better understanding of what to expect from the tour. The categories are Easy, Moderate, Challenging and Demanding. All of our tours are rated to make it easier for you to find a tour that suits you.

For further information about the difficulty ratings and descriptions.

You can book almost all of our trips here on our website. You will find a booking window on each tour page and the best and safest way is to book and pay is directly through our website.

1. You can pay directly through our website. That is the easiest, safest and fastest way to reserve and pay for your adventure. If you choose this way then you will receive a voucher as a confirmation via email. Which you will need to bring with you on your trip.

2. You can pay via phone, our phone number is +354 562 7000. Please be noted, however you pay, you will always get a voucher. It is important to have your voucher ready for your tour so please remember to print it out or make sure that you can show it through your electronic device.

You will receive a confirmation email after you have made the booking. If you think that you have made a booking and haven’t received an email confirmation then you may please contact us via email with an inquiry through our contact form, and we will figure it out together.

All charges are made in the tour operators currency: For tours in Iceland it's Icelandic krona, ISK, but for tours in Canada/Greenland it's either USD or CAD.

On Adventures.com you can view an estimate of prices in EUR and other currencies. This is only to help you understand the approximate price.

Your credit card will always be charged in the operators currency.

Keep in mind that your card issuer may charge you a foreign transaction fee.

We do not require minimum participants on most of our tours but there is a minimum of 2 people for a few of our trips. If you are traveling solo and interested in a tour that requires more than 2 participants than we can take down your information and contact you if more people book the tour.

We can arrange private departures as per customer request. Almost all of the tours that we offer can be arranged as a private tour. If you prefer to have a private tour arranged than you may feel free to contact us through email info@adventures.com

Unfortunately, we don’t have any waiting list for our tours. Availability is found on our website in the availability sheet where all updates will automatically be made to the sheet listed in each tour description. We have a variety of different adventure tours around Iceland so there is a big chance that you find a similar version of the tour that you were originally looking for.

If your tour that you have booked is canceled on our behalf than you will receive a 100% refund. The refund process is different depending on the way you booked the tour.

If you booked the tour through our website then we will start the refund process as soon as we know if you will not be rescheduling and you will receive a separate email with a confirmation about that your refund has been processed.

If you booked the tour via booking agent than you will need to contact them directly to receive the refund. We will confirm with them about your canceled tour and then the refund process will start on their end. Extreme Iceland only receives the payment when the tour has finished, that means that your payment still remains with the booking agent and therefore, the refund can only be processed directly from their end.

The minimum age requirement is decided by our operational managers and is dependent on each activity and its difficulty ratings and can, therefore, vary between tours We put great value towards safety for our customers and the minimum age policy falls under this. Therefore we can not accommodate a person that has not reached the age limit on the tour.
We ask you to try to understand that this is based on safety procedures and we can therefore unfortunately not make any exceptions on this rule.

We can unfortunately not accommodate you and your group if the number of your group extends the number of available seats left on the tour. Our website shows the correct number of available seats left. It is impossible to squeeze additional participants onto sold out departures as we have really strict policy measures as to how many participants are assigned to each guide on our tour departures. Therefore we hope that you understand as this is of course done with our customer's safety in mind.

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