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in Greenland
More about Greenland Northern Lights Trips
A carpet of new ice covers the ffrozen water while icebergs surround you. The sky is full of plenty of stars and the moon begins to creep up from behind in the night sky.
A sharp greenish yellow light appears overhead, seeming at first like lightening. It begins to become clearer, reflecting in the frozen water, and you can't help to wonder when you realise it's Greenland's Northern Lights, the Aurora Borealis, warming up to its show of light.
You can now see a display of a dazzling show of greens, yellow, red spiraling and dancing on the sky. No photograph can prepare you for the full blown extent of the Northern Lights – it moves, dance and changes with surprising speed forming wonderful whirlpools and that merge and intensify, then separate again. In Greenland the locals believed that the Northern Lights are the playful souls of their children that died at birth. Sometimes it is a beautiful and delicate beam of light on the horizon, and sometimes it fills the entire night such that it seems that light is pouring out of the sky. You could see it on display in the movie Polar Express too.
The chance for these magnetic fields that produce the Northern Lights are more concentrated around the Poles, therefore the Lights encircles the polar regions of the earth.
Greenland is a very reliable place to see the Northern Lights, and you would be very unlucky not to see it between August till late April.