Aurora Borealis, Aurora Autralis.

This past summer I went to the Arctic Circle visiting Norway and Sweden. I saw some beautiful places, pristine lakes, snow covered mountains, gorgeous fjords, surrounding small towns, and I mean small. The people were very nice and friendly.

These places are gorgeous and I would like to go back in February when the northern lights are most visible.   However, when I think of the cold and that I don’t have the right clothes, my desire dissipates. After all, I don’t want to buy clothes and boots and all the other paraphernalia needed for such extreme weather, when I only would be using them for one week, and I am not an outside type of person anyway, much less in winter.

The Aurora Borealis are form when electrically charged particles from the sun enters the atmosphere, forming beautiful rays of colors in greens and pinks and sometimes red, yellow, blue, and violet, creating a magnificent dance between all the colors.

What most people don’t know is the Aurora Australis or the Southern Lights which are form and presented the same way than the famous Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights.

What is interesting is that the lights happen at the same time at both poles and they are identical but in reverse, like a mirror image.

I remember as a young girl sitting on the beach looking at the southern lights dancing in the sky, there were so beautiful. I have also seen the northern lights and they were more magnificent just for the mere fact that they were closer to where I was.

The best places to see them are in the Arctic Circle in Norway, Sweden, Greenland, Iceland, Alaska, Antarctica, and the south of Argentina.

I have really enjoyed the Arctic Circle however, I am a city girl; I have proven it time and time again, nevertheless I still will be visiting remote places because if I am traveling the world I need to see and experience everything, not just the cities.