In the Northwest Territories where winter lasts half the year (or more) we’ve found plenty of cool ways to enjoy it.
Aurora vacations include day trips (well, night trips, really, with day time activities) at aurora viewing centres. At Yellowknife, for example, a "day trip" might include a choice of accommodation for three nights in a hotel
or cozy bed and breakfast, and tours out of town to see and photograph the northern lights from a base on a remote lake. Bundled into Arctic-grade parkas, visitors travel into the wilderness by minibus, dogsled, or snowmobile. The packages include guided interpretation, some outdoor activities and a warming mug-up of tea or cocoa in a heated tent or cabin. In the daylight, visitors can try dog-mushing, ice fishing and snowshoeing. In town there's sightseeing, museum visits and shopping. Aurora tours usually start about 8 or 9 o'clock in the evening, with a bus trip to a remote viewing centre, to prepare for aurora watching in the midnight sky.
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