‘Did you really go to the North Pole on holiday?’ I was asked on my return from Svalbard. It wasn’t too far from the truth.
While the snowy archipelago of islands isn’t quite as far north as thAT, it is one of the most northerly inhabited places in the world, high up in the Arctic Circle.
A trip there will certainly make you feel on top of the world.
In just a few days, I had driven a team of huskies across the snowy landscape, shot across the Arctic tundra at high speed on a snowmobile, explored ghost towns, trekked deep inside a 5,000-year-old glacier, stayed in remote hunting lodges and kept a keen eye out for polar bears.
And did I mention the Northern Lights? This is certainly a destination like no other.
The Svalbard archipelago is a vast, snowy wilderness north of Norway.
A succession of planes took me from London to Oslo, then up the Norwegian coast to Tromsø.
After that, I flew north… Read the full story
from Metro http://metro.co.uk/2018/04/15/a-vast-snowy-wilderness-why-you-should-visit-svalbard-7459647/
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