In your room you can land great price go to d. W. Dot com travel quite as. Aurora borealis the Northern Lights have fascinated mankind for millenia. Some find them franklin others inspirational most when they experience them are simply overwhelmed. The thing i mean what you see behind me is the reason weve come this far north there are a barrell is so Northern Lights this natural spectacle in the sky has fascinated humans for thousands of years many people now come here on holiday just to see and experience the lights for themselves. Who are almost two hundred kilometers north of the Arctic Circle at kew roun abdul originally built to support the mining industry. These days most of the arrivals arent coming to work on the contrary jack hong for instance is a Chinese Student on holiday. And made. The Journey Continues by bus. People who have come from all around the world to experience something very special. Jack kong who studies physics in the United States has been dreaming of this for a long time. Going to see an awesome lightning Lawrence Norden that is just so awesome that i nominate every outpace man i can never see here that has wanted to see if i was. In my whole life i think i said if it landed on. The new arrivals are surprised by the darkness its just two in the afternoon but its already pitch black outside its the polar night. Their accommodation is cozy with simple rustic chalk. Its like a better quality youth hostel. And thats no wonder because its run by the swedish youth hostel association. Its the top choice in town and its been booked out for months. Its Northern Lights season in. This is luring. A remote village somewhere in lapland but not far from the swedish no we joined borda orbit around one hundred people and its a very special place thats because of the Northern Lights you can find Northern Lights tourism in many other areas of the world is considered the best place to experience the celestial phenomena thats due to its location in a low precipitation microclimate. Part of the a pony and gate thats what they call these you shaped valley its a point of focus for visitors to lapland the mountains and sure the few clouds obscure the view of the Northern Lights. Its necessary to travel quite far north to see the Northern Lights the area around all busy you situated in the wide expanses of lapland and thats north enough. Freight trains from kew roona transport iron ore to the port of navi otherwise not much goes on up here. Roughly one hundred residents who will be live directly on the railway line. In the evening almost everyone in town meets at the only book that means tourists and those who profit from the presence its only recently that holiday makers started coming to see the Northern Lights and it was newcomers who recognized the economic potential of this celestial display the first time i saw the Northern Lights something in my brain changed something in my outlook changed and i think thats a reason people come here chairs because when you see the Northern Lights for the first time. It makes you feel small it makes you understand how powerful the universe is. And a lot of times it helps you understand that your problems and all these things that seem like food in your world at any moment that really arent that big and when you see nature at its finest and thats what they are or it was. It puts everything into perspective and for me obviously has changed my perspective on life. And. To think now some fifteen thousand visitors make their way to a biscoe every year to see the Northern Lights its a very troubled boom thats good for the local businesses which now make decent money all winter long. It may be minus twenty degrees celsius but jet blakeley has to go to repair the web cam it broadcasts images of the Northern Lights all around the world the most recent footage was blue. Sorry. I had to come up here tonight to adjust the settings the infinity focus was off just a tiny bit and im better of a perfectionist so i wanted it to the perfect. Chant blakely is an american whos lived here for eight years captivated by the Northern Lights he and his swedish wife came up with an idea that transformed winter in obispo. On a good night we can have many many many thousands of people from all over the world looking at these pictures self i feel a bit of a responsibility to make sure that it stays running. People that dont have the ability to come to school get to see us through the eye of the lens plexiglas protects the delicate optical lams even in these optic temperatures this camera has turned life in this Remote Community upside down. Perhaps a little too much according to some. When hes out on the snowmobile chad blakeley always has the lights on better safe than sorry visibility is poor during winter in the arctic. The american from the state of missouri had to get used to that when he first came to the cold dark north. Winter holiday makers stopped arriving in all biscoe in october to make sure these photos so far is too unpleasant challenge set up an old sound weak tent this is where the paying guests stay until the skylight south. From. The small firearms to the sense of adventure or bisque who used to be an insiders tip now its a popular destination chad lately may benefit from the boom but hes also concerned that too much traffic could destroy the magic of the place i think my Biggest Challenges is making sure that as we grow and as the interest in all the school continues to spread that we continue to give really really good levels of experience you know one of the things that always goes really dealt with in the last couple years as weve had this boom is to make sure that the place doesnt have too many people or have of too many tours happening in a National Park its a very small area and i think our biggest challenge is to make sure that we dont love all this go to death and be a good whats the word a Good Shepherd and take good care of the place. Its a good idea to warm up the tent in advance of the evening session. Hopefully the sky will be clear. Chad blakely heads back to the village he still has a lot to do. Chad blakely offers photography courses and provides cameras for the participants. Guys my name is chad im going to be your guide tonight im going to be your storyteller your fire maker here aurora photographed teacher here your guy that teaches you a bit about space im going to make you a warm drink and hopefully were all going to have a really nice time. We can go out and talk about camera settings all night long if you just want to take pictures we can also do that everybody should have brought an s. D. Card that anyone not bring in s. D. Card what a great group and there we have it ok guys so well start with the basics there are only two variables that we will have to change throughout the course of the evening and the way we change that is very simple if you look on the back of your camera here theres a wheel that youll find by your thumb ok so on your camera you have a little lever here that goes back thats called the live you believe or like a cell show this group over almost entirely from asia you can just go one couple is from singapore just in the whole day we can reuse of the camera and take the. Aurora isnt super Cool Committee where we come from all but its nice to do a speed in such with the ones in a way. As to where this kind of so i thought with a lot of. Walking towards. Venturing out into the darkness with chant snuff the cheap adventure. The three hour excursion at minus twenty five degrees costs around one hundred twenty euros per person so braithwaite has to be sure his customers get something for their money i want you to experiment with exposure take a fifteen second picture take a twenty second picture take a thirty second picture point the camera this way and youll start to get your first aurora photographs but the reason were going to experiment with those exposures is to see which exposure level you like the most the aurora is not super strong right now. Now so as i turn the ring slowly slowly slowly it gets nice and sharp and now we turn the live you back off and once thats done your focus is set. Yet no matter how hard he tries no a roar appears in the sky thirty seconds right now because there was a big call when you first saw it and then on the legs were in finland we were surprised that you can actually see like what you saw in the protests media only could i but with the camera you know you can see much more clearly and you can go back to your friend and say well you were sitting on a couch i took a picture of another world yeah cool thing because this guys dong chan provides an alternative program and everyone should feel the trip was worth it there we go on three one two three dont move. We also learn more about the scots ok about nuking me about the different styles and how i can show it and frame that picture such that god or us in this thought make up that if its just like everyone else we might use it but next i would you know see i will write a piece. So maybe you know a nice big issue you might want to try and look in the southern part of the wood and in social be recorded australia is. Still there a little disappointed its a long way to travel to look at the dark sky thats not why they came to a biscuit. Chad and his wife linea of the tourists a pariah of the options in addition to photo tools. Cleared up and yes from. What is this. Just. Somebody rented some booze and. The webcam is working perfectly again now that chads fixed up. I told her the picture on facebook this morning and in the last hour and a half its been seen six thousand five hundred forty two thousand. And one nights some and when you look here its not one. And she actually will be school has become known around the world thanks to the internet from someone that had a really snow we know it was mine so its easy to get a great review and yours are going strong on the slow nights. Bigger orus its the thing is you know ive said it a million times when people book a trip to go see the Northern Lights if theyre going anywhere other than all the school day they often wonder am i going to see the lights and thats usually our biggest question. They might deserve a raise. But he cant guarantee any. Thing apart from the freezing temperatures by the time winter comes to an end the couple have had enough of cold laflamme. We always try to go somewhere warm and really just relax but i actually promise when theyre good this year im going to take a two week vacation with no phone no email nothing and i im ninety nine percent confident that i will have the ability to opt to keep my word i certainly hope since. You live. In. Spectacular sites like these are something every Northern Lights family should experience at least ones who know lifetime regardless of how cold it is. In the evening chad wants to present the Northern Lights to his guests at last its gotten even colder and windy and theres nothing to see yet but plenty to talk about through a lot of times when we can explain something we dont understand something we immediately go to the spirit. If orion our constellations out there we would look up at the heavens and see the same thing and they fit together and sort of chant can wax lyrical about the magic of the aurora for hours and he enjoys doing so i think hes strong on the extreme ends to be caught in the calling catching the no light and then be in the pit the now its warm and everybody you know talking to and some more about the not like its very enriching and lightning hand experience so i would definitely recommend to my friends. Hydrogen. As the solar wind all the extras make the whole thing even more interesting but will the skyline jump. The group wants to be ready to go in case they have two hundred. On their tripod so see how bad zoomed in on i can get as i turn this focusing thing youll see there that gets a little bit sharper but as soon as ive got a person just final adjustments to ensure the guests successfully capture images on that as de constitutes a comb with the. Story the real thing. And you remember to take the picture just trust that for right right ill come back and check on you soon ok second anything let me know. And there they are the north unlocks. Everyone starts snapping pictures guys directly overhead starting to develop right in from the north east i should say the east northeast were starting to get something called a hydrogen arc to take a picture and then you look at it on the screen and if it needs to be adjusted you make those adjustments are. Ok. Nice and still. Are you ready for the long journey to get here has been worthwhile. Three. Nights and still very good looks good. Its qantas. I think its something that it comes from the sky. Well a if you can explain from the scientific part of field but. I think. Its something that we share a spec. And enjoy. Latin is also home to the sami and Indigenous People who inhabit the arctic regions of scandinavia some a culture tradition that revolved around reindeer for centuries the sama lived as nomads and survived life in the cold many are still having difficulty finding their place in modern Swedish Society and not everyone is happy with the attention Northern Lights tourism has brought to the region but others see it as a Business Opportunity given. Those who focus only on winter nights you know who will miss the chance to take in the regions stunning scenery as well as its reindeer theyre an important part of saami culture to truly understand the Indigenous People up here in the north its necessary to understand the love of reindeer. Hakan an ox on is expecting guests hes a reindeer breeder. When tourists first started coming here how khan was concerned about the negative consequences it might have on the environment and local people but now he enjoys telling visitors about sami culture and lifestyle. Not a number of tourists its just right. Its still not in the fleet that had only been that spread out we dont get thousands of people in one place making a lot of noise. Tools clean your teeth and they come in small groups and stay in settled areas with an oxy only road on that that it would be another matter if complexes were built in the middle of nowhere. And give land were used just for that purpose make the news stand still. Such claim. Fifteen holiday makers who booked a tool for today. Ok come over here please. When we used to love. To catch the reindeer. No we dont do like hopefuls what we do is make some loops like this. One intro you go like this. And hopefully the rain in that ring. Old the guests are allowed to give it a try an excursion like this costs around two hundred twenty of was proposed some its something mental income for the saami money they can really use even if in the end hakan has to catch the domesticated reindeer himself. This doesnt have much to do with the real life of the sammy. Ok i didnt want to put a little. Island in play. I thought there were not. Every. Five thousand and some is still live from breeding reindeer and one to the north with us but they dont use traditional rain dia sleds like these anymore although the tourists love the short ride around the corral these days the some of them sos you snowmobiles. Inside a traditional samba love who can show us some insights on how to survive in la plans on limits how to hunt moose for example for a thumb its easy to sound like you may lose what you thought like you moved the sound a Long Distance and therefore you need to hold your hands like this. And the moves are more. Nothe all than me and there for you to hold or feel. Ok all of them out. There with a come. Off or off lot off off off. And then the female and just all the women ah ah ah ah ah was. Not too much. Not so much fish and. Reindeer goulash is a typical dish hakan tells his guests about some of traditions but he doesnt say anything about the Northern Lights theres a reason for that. Because i like this doctor. We just talk about no daylight when its dark and this is not dark yet if you keep the course and we must show the Northern Lights respects away and therefore i dont talk about Northern Lights in daylight writing i just. Heard and thats not just an act. Is deadly serious right now its time to warm their feet and reindeer meet with death fingerless its an adventure to tell family and friends about. This some experience last three hours after that hawk on once again has the labo to himself in his coach of the Aurora Borealis has a mystical quality as a day older lads from leith than the lots of when i was little i was told to have respect for the Northern Lights. Well duh i wasnt allowed to shout a whistle or anything stupid like not when they were visible led from enough of my parents taught me that it was little man man among the language evolved through them so long ago the sonny believed that the lights and ate from the souls of the dead man this was a people who had died in violent tragic way in the old sunsets on fancy some on old gray and. His ancestors perceived the lights in the sky as threatening but he prefers not to tell his guests about that. Those who come to see the Northern Lights in northern sweden often arrive here in kiruna one of the biggest and most important towns in the region and while its possible to see the Northern Lights in karuna to the people around here tend to be more interested he wants below ground and wants up in the sky kiruna is situated above one of the Worlds Largest magnetite appetite de