Aurora entered Flåm and the Sognefjord at full strength

16 Oct

16Oct

Photo taken by: Anita Seim, 5743 Flåm

This year we have been blessed with a relatively large amount of Northern Lights in southern Norway. A very exciting and beautiful spectacle for the eye in the sky. When the tourist season is well into the final month of October. Was this extra nice, especially for tourists and all the seasonal workers in the tourism industry, who will soon be returning home to their respective countries.

I have been asked several times if I would like to go on a trip to see if there will be auroras. I didn't really understand the question until I was shown that they had an app on their mobile which indicated that tonight there was an 85% chance of seeing the Northern Lights. As born and raised in the area, the northern lights are great to watch. But when you've seen it a few times, it's not really in my mind to put on extra thick clothes to go out at night and stand looking up at the sky. When you live in a valley with high mountains around, the darkness at the bottom will create an enormous effect if the aurora borealis occurs. So for those who have not seen this, but only seen pictures or heard about this. Can I understand that it is extra exciting to take home photos taken with your own mobile camera?