Polarlicht (aurora) was a highlight of my Iceland trip, but there were many others. If it wasn’t such an expensive country, I’d be back there on a regular basis!
Aurora Borealis, Iceland, September 2018
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Copyright Debbie Smyth, 2 January 2020
Posted as part of January Squares
Travel with Intent 
Do you have any special tips for seeing these? I’m headed there in 2 weeks and definitely want to see the Northern Lights!
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Have a great trip.
1) Northern Lights are wonderful but all you can do is cross your fingers. There are apps (such as Aurora Forecast) that will give you warning of likely onset of Northern Lights – use something like that and talk to locals to make sure you don’t miss it if it happens. 2) Go well prepared with layers of clothing so that you can spend time outside whatever the weather. 3) Do research in advance so that you know what you want to see, or get a good guide.
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Good tips! Hopefully I’ll get lucky 🙂
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Breathtaking!
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Wow! What a treat to see these.
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Absolutely amazing! I would love to see that too!
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Wowza! My husband would love to see these lights in person. Iceland looks amazing but, as you said, I’ve read it’s quite expensive.
janet
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Oh Deb – these photos are stunning and not what we see all the time via blogs – so thanks for sharing yet again from your travels (and happy new year too by the way)
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Thanks Yvette – these images bring back memories of a great trip.
And a very happy new year to you too.
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😊
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Wonderful. Definitely on my wish list.
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Less expensive and a little nearer and I would like you be back in a shot. But you never know 🙂
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Wonderful!!
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The northern lights are #1 on my bucket list! So beautiful! Great pictures!
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I hope you get to see them. And I can assure that If you choose Iceland as your destination there is plenty there to delight you even when f the lights don’t show.
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I’ve heard great things about Iceland too. I am definitely going to try to visit.
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Surreal. I’ve always fancied visiting Iceland and these fabulous pictures underline why. You were so fortunate to be able to witness this and we are fortunate to share it with you through your pictures.
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So beautiful! I think the rest of us can just retire from the challenge now 😉.
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Thank you Anabel. But I’m sure there many more deLights to come. Becky has given us a great theme this month 😀
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this looks like magic
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Magical indeed!
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So love to see that Debbie or but would settle for the Aurora Australis
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Oh yes. Though I assume seeing even stars is difficult in many parts of smokey Australia. 🙁
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I am lucky at the moment that I don’t have a smokey atmosphere Debbie 🙂
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Great news Brian
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What can you say but Wow? 🙂 🙂
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😀🤩
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wow! You are so fortunate to have seen this amazing sight, and I love the fact Polarlicht fits in perfectly to the challenge. Extraordinary photos Debbie xx
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So lucky. And German is such a great language for joining words together, I think it could be a handy cheat for the month!
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German is such an incredible language for compound nouns. Can’t wait to see all the ‘cheats’!
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