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06 octobre 2026
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Arctic Norway: Tromso, the Lyngen Alps and the Northern Lights
6 days from November to March: three nights in Tromso with a fjord cruise and a Sami reindeer visit, two nights in the Lyngen Alps with huskies, and three aurora chases by minibus.
6 jours · Départ et retour : Tromso · jusqu'à 12 voyageurs
A boathouse on the fjord shore in the Lyngen Alps, with snow still on the shore Photo: Cem Sagisman cems77, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lyngen_Alps,_Norway_(Unsplash).jpg)
Les faits
En bref
- Durée
- 6 jours, 5 nuits
- Départ et arrivée
- Départ et retour : Tromso
- Taille du groupe
- 7 à 12 voyageurs
- Trajet le plus long
- 4 h le jour 3Aucun trajet ne dépasse 4 heures.
- Niveau d'activité
Facile
Short walks of 1 to 3 km on snowy and sometimes icy streets, a husky ride of about 10 km sitting or standing on the sled, an optional snowshoe walk of 2 to 4 km, and three late aurora evenings standing outside in the cold for an hour or two at a time, often back after midnight. The longest day in the minibus is a chase night, up to about 4 hours there and back, and you can stay at the hotel any evening.
- Repas compris
- 5 petits-déjeuners, 4 repas du midi, 2 repas du soir
- Chambre individuelle
- + CAD 1,095 (prix estimé)
- Saison
- November to March
Points forts
Pourquoi ce voyage
- Three aurora chases by minibus, moved to the clearest nights of the week and driving up to about two hours to find a gap in the cloud
- A daylight fjord cruise among the islands west of Tromso, with lunch on board
- Reindeer and a lavvu lunch of bidos stew with a Sami host outside Tromso
- The Arctic Cathedral and the Fjellheisen cable car at dusk, with Tromso's lights below
- The Breivikeidet ferry into the Lyngen Alps, peaks of up to about 1,830 m rising straight out of the fjord
- A husky ride through the Lyngen valleys, as a passenger or driving your own team
- A thermal suit and boots lent to you for the whole trip
Ce qui distingue ce voyage
Des trajets courts, tous publiés
Chaque trajet est indiqué jour par jour, et aucun ne dépasse 4 heures.
Le temps libre fait partie du programme
Le temps libre et les choix sont indiqués les jours où ils ont lieu.
En solo, sans pénalité
Une chambre individuelle coûte + CAD 1,095 (prix estimé).
Jour par jour
Itinéraire
Le trajet le plus long dure 4 h, le jour 3.
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Arrive in Tromso
Tromso Airport to your hotel in central Tromso
- Welcome dinner
- Nuit : Tromso
- Environ 15 min de route
Fly into Tromso Airport (TOS), most likely via Oslo, and plan to land by about 3 pm. A driver meets you in the arrivals hall for the short drive into the centre, about 15 minutes. Tromso sits on a small island, Tromsoya, about 350 km north of the Arctic Circle, joined to the mainland by a long bridge and a tunnel, with snowy mountains on every side. Your hotel is central, a few minutes' walk from the harbour, the old wooden houses on Storgata and the restaurants. At about 5 pm your See Sight Tours guide meets the group, fits the thermal suits and insulated boots you keep for the week, and explains how the aurora evenings work: we read the forecasts and the cloud maps every day and put the three chases on the clearest nights.
Soir
Then we walk to a welcome dinner together, with Arctic char, cod or reindeer on the menu. If the sky is clear tonight, the harbour front is a good place to look north.
Compris
- Pick-up at Tromso Airport (TOS)
- Thermal suit and boot fitting for the whole trip
- Welcome briefing with your guide
- Welcome dinner
Temps libre : Free until the 5 pm fitting and briefing
Activité : If your flight lands late, a driver still meets you and your guide fits your suit at the hotel. If tonight is the only clear night in the forecast, your guide may move a chase to this evening.
A fjord cruise, the Polar Museum and the first chase
Tromso harbour, a cruise among the islands west of Tromso, the Polar Museum, then an evening aurora chase by minibus
- Petit-déjeuner et repas du midi
- Nuit : Tromso
- Environ 3.5 h de route
Matin
Late in the morning we board a boat for a fjord cruise of about three to four hours among the islands and sounds west of Tromso, timed for the best of the short winter light.
Soir
In the polar night that light is a long blue twilight over white mountains, and sea eagles are often seen along the shore. Lunch is hot and served on board. Back in town by mid-afternoon, we walk to the Polar Museum, in an old warehouse on the harbour, before it closes: trappers' huts, sealing boats and the story of Roald Amundsen and the Arctic trappers and sealers who sailed from this town. Then rest at the hotel. In the early evening, if the sky allows, the first aurora chase leaves in our minibus. Your guide picks the direction from the forecast and the cloud, often inland toward the valleys, and drives up to about two hours each way to a dark spot away from any light. There are hot drinks, a snack and a fire where allowed, and your guide takes photos of you under the lights. We are back between about midnight and 2 am.
Compris
- Fjord cruise of about 3 to 4 hours with lunch on board
- Polar Museum with your guide
- Aurora chase 1 by minibus with your guide and driver, hot drinks and a snack
Activités en option
- From about November to January, when whales are being seen, a full-day whale safari from Tromso in place of the fjord cruise, for a supplement shown at booking
Option plus facile : Skip the chase and watch from the harbour front, or go to bed; the guide wakes no one.
Temps libre : Free late afternoon before the chase
Activité : Chase nights are late. If the sky is closed everywhere within reach, your guide calls the chase off by late afternoon and moves it to another night.
Reindeer with a Sami host, the cable car and the second chase
Tromso to a Sami reindeer camp outside town, then Tromsdalen for the Arctic Cathedral and Fjellheisen, then an evening aurora chase
- Petit-déjeuner et repas du midi
- Nuit : Tromso
- Environ 4 h de route
A late start after the first chase. At about 10:30 we drive 30 to 45 minutes out of town to a reindeer camp run by a Sami family. You help feed the herd, which crowds round for lichen, and take a short sled ride behind a reindeer. Inside the lavvu, the Sami tent, your host talks by the fire about herding, the language, the yoik songs and the Sami flag, and we eat bidos, a reindeer stew, with flatbread and hot drinks. On the way back we cross to Tromsdalen on the mainland for the Arctic Cathedral, the white triangular church of 1965 at the end of the Tromso Bridge, then ride the Fjellheisen cable car to Storsteinen, about 420 m up, as the light goes. From the top the island and its lights fill the view, with the mountains of Kvaloya beyond.
Soir
Back at the hotel by about 5 pm; dinner is your choice in town. Chase 2 leaves after dinner if the sky allows, back by about 1 am.
Compris
- Sami reindeer camp: feeding the herd and a short reindeer sled ride
- Lunch of bidos in the lavvu with your Sami host
- The Arctic Cathedral
- Fjellheisen cable car to Storsteinen at dusk
- Aurora chase 2 by minibus with your guide and driver, hot drinks and a snack
Option plus facile : Go back to the hotel after the reindeer camp and skip the cable car and the chase.
Temps libre : Dinner free in Tromso
Activité : In winter most Sami herds graze far inland, and the reindeer at camps near Tromso are a smaller herd kept close by their owners for visits; we say so rather than pretend otherwise.
Over the fjord to the Lyngen Alps
Tromso through the Breivikeidet valley to the Breivikeidet to Svensby ferry, then Lyngseidet
- Petit-déjeuner, repas du midi et repas du soir
- Nuit : Lyngen
- Environ 1.5 h de route
Matin
A slow morning in Tromso after two late nights: sleep in, visit Polaria and its bearded seals, or walk the shops on Storgata. We leave at about 11:30 and drive south and then east through the Breivikeidet valley to Ullsfjorden, about 45 km. A small car ferry takes us across the fjord from Breivikeidet to Svensby, about 25 minutes on the water and not part of the road distance, with the Lyngen Alps ahead: steep, snowbound peaks rising straight out of the sea to about 1,830 m. Another 20 km of road brings us to Lyngseidet, about 65 km of road and 1.5 hours of driving in all, plus the crossing.
Après-midi
Lyngseidet is a village on the narrow neck of the peninsula; we stop there for a sit-down lunch. Your home for two nights is a lodge or hotel on the Lyngenfjord, with almost no artificial light around it. In the afternoon there is time to rest, use the sauna where the lodge has one, or walk out on snowshoes in the last of the light.
Soir
Dinner is at the lodge. Afterwards no chase is needed: we step outside, with the guide watching the sky.
Compris
- Drive to Lyngen with your guide, with the Breivikeidet to Svensby car ferry
- Sit-down lunch in Lyngseidet
- Dinner at the lodge
- Aurora watch from the lodge with your guide
Activités en option
- Polaria in Tromso in the morning (entry on you)
Option plus facile : Rest at the lodge after lunch.
Option plus active : A guided snowshoe walk of 2 to 4 km near the lodge in the afternoon light.
Temps libre : Free morning in Tromso; free afternoon at the lodge
Activité : The ferry runs year-round; in a storm crossings can be delayed, and the guide adjusts lunch to the next sailing. If the chases on days 2 and 3 were clouded out and tonight is clear, your guide can add a short extra chase from the lodge if the group wants it; on nights without a chase you watch from the harbour front in Tromso or step outside at the lodge with your guide.
Huskies in Lyngen and the last chase
Lyngen lodge to a husky kennel nearby, then an evening aurora chase, often toward Skibotn
- Petit-déjeuner, repas du midi et repas du soir
- Nuit : Lyngen
- Environ 3.5 h de route
The huskies go first, in the best of the short light. We drive about half an hour to a kennel in the valleys, where the dogs start howling as soon as the sleds come out. After a talk from the mushers on braking and balance, you ride two to a sled on a trail of about 10 km through birch woods and open snow, swapping driver and passenger halfway, with the mountains around you.
Après-midi
Lunch is hot and sit-down at the kennel or back at the lodge.
Soir
The afternoon is free: the sauna, a short walk by the fjord, or a nap before the last late night. We sit down to a farewell dinner at the lodge, then the third chase leaves if the sky allows. Your guide often heads south and east along the Lyngenfjord toward Skibotn, which lies in the shelter of the mountains and is often drier and clearer than the coast, about 85 km and a little over an hour away. Back by about midnight.
Compris
- Husky ride of about 10 km at a Lyngen kennel, two to a sled
- Sit-down lunch at the kennel or the lodge
- Farewell dinner at the lodge
- Aurora chase 3 by minibus with your guide and driver, hot drinks and a snack
Activités en option
- Snowmobile trip with a local operator, if the kennel or lodge offers one (a driving licence is needed)
Option plus facile : Ride as the passenger for the whole husky trail, wrapped in a reindeer skin, and let your partner drive.
Option plus active : Drive the sled for the whole trail, if your partner agrees and the musher is happy with your braking.
Temps libre : Free afternoon at the lodge
Activité : In early November, if the trails do not yet have enough snow, the husky ride runs on a wheeled cart or we swap it for a guided snowshoe walk; we tell you before you travel.
Back across the fjord to Tromso Airport
Lyngseidet to the Svensby to Breivikeidet ferry, then Tromso Airport
- Petit-déjeuner
- Environ 1.5 h de route
Matin
A late breakfast after the last chase, and a final look across the fjord at the mountains in whatever light the season gives. We hand back the thermal suits and boots and leave the lodge at about 10 am, driving the 20 km to Svensby for the ferry back across Ullsfjorden to Breivikeidet, then on through the valley to Tromso: about 65 km of road and 1.5 hours of driving, plus the crossing, so about two hours door to door.
Après-midi
We aim to reach Tromso Airport (TOS) by about midday, where your guide sees you to the departures hall and checks your flight before saying goodbye. If you are staying on in Tromso, we drop you in the centre instead, and your guide can suggest where to stay and what to do with the extra nights, including another chase with a local operator. On a clear afternoon in February or March the drive back is one of the most beautiful of the trip, with the Lyngen peaks lit pink behind you.
Compris
- Drive back to Tromso with your guide, with the Svensby to Breivikeidet car ferry
- Drop-off at Tromso Airport (TOS) or in central Tromso
Activité : Book a flight leaving after about 2 pm. Ferry crossings can be delayed in storms, so allow the margin.
- Tromso3 nuits
- Lyngen2 nuits
- Tromsoarrivée
- Étape avec nuitée
- Excursion d'une journée
- En bateau ou en train
Faune et météo : November brings the first snow and the last daylight before the polar night, which runs in Tromso from about late November to mid January, with a few hours of twilight at midday. February has more light and is often the snowiest month; March has long days and the same dark nights for the aurora. The coast is often cloudy, so the chases head inland or toward Skibotn, which is often drier. From about November to January humpbacks and orcas may follow the herring into the fjords north of Tromso.
Vous voulez recevoir ce programme par courriel?
Recevez l'itinéraire jour par jour par courriel, ou posez-nous vos questions sur ce voyage. Un conseiller en voyages vous répond le jour même ou le jour ouvrable suivant.
Avant de réserver
Ce voyage est-il pour vous?
Ce voyage vous convient si vous recherchez
- First-time winter visitors who want a fair, honest chance at the Northern Lights with reindeer, huskies and a fjord in one week
- Travellers who would rather stay in two places than change hotels every night
- Solo travellers, couples and friends who want a small group and one guide throughout
- People who do not want to buy a full set of Arctic clothing for one trip
Ce voyage ne vous convient pas si vous recherchez
- Anyone who needs a guaranteed aurora: nobody can promise one
- Travellers who cannot face late nights outside at -15 C or colder
- A Lofoten trip: Lofoten in winter is a long way by road, and we take you there in summer instead
- A ski holiday or a Svalbard expedition
Réservez vos vols une fois votre place confirmée.
5 nuits
Où vous logerez
Vos hôtels sont nommés dans la confirmation de votre voyage.
- Tromso3 nuits
- Lyngen2 nuits
Un seul prix
Ce que le prix comprend
Compris
Hébergement
- 5 nights: 3 in central Tromso and 2 at a lodge or hotel on the Lyngenfjord near Lyngseidet
- Hotels of a 3-star-plus standard with private bathrooms; we name each hotel when we confirm your dates
- Rooms shared, or your own for a supplement
Transport
- Private transfers from Tromso Airport (TOS) on day 1 and back to it on day 6
- A private minibus and professional driver for the group throughout, including all three aurora chases
- The Breivikeidet to Svensby car ferry both ways
- The fjord cruise boat from Tromso
Votre guide
- A See Sight Tours guide with the group from the day 1 briefing to the airport on day 6
- A Sami host at the reindeer camp and local mushers at the kennel
Activités
- A thermal suit and insulated boots for the whole trip
- Three aurora chases by minibus, with hot drinks and a snack, from Tromso and Lyngen
- An aurora watch from the Lyngen lodge
- Polar Museum, Tromso
- Fjord cruise of about 3 to 4 hours from Tromso
- Sami reindeer camp with feeding and a short reindeer sled ride, near Tromso
- The Arctic Cathedral, Tromso
- Fjellheisen cable car to Storsteinen, Tromso
- Husky ride of about 10 km, Lyngen
Repas
- 5 breakfasts
- 4 lunches: on board the fjord cruise, bidos in the lavvu at the reindeer camp, in Lyngseidet on day 4 and at the kennel or lodge on day 5
- 3 dinners: a welcome dinner in Tromso and both nights at the Lyngen lodge
Non compris
- International flights to and from Tromso
- Visa or ETIAS travel authorisation fee, if it applies to your dates
- Travel insurance, which should cover weather delays
- Lunches on days 1 and 6, and dinners on days 2 and 3
- Drinks, including alcohol, which is expensive in Norway
- Optional activities: the whale safari swap, snowmobile, Polaria, concerts at the Arctic Cathedral
- Thermal base layers, hat, gloves and ice grips
- Tips
- Personal expenses
Suppléments
- Chambre individuelle
- CAD 1,095 (prix estimé)
Quand partir
Dates et prix
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Questions
What does the price include?
Five nights in 3-star-plus hotels, 5 breakfasts, 4 lunches and 3 dinners, private airport transfers, a minibus and driver, your See Sight Tours guide throughout, a thermal suit and boots for the week, three aurora chases, the fjord cruise, the Sami reindeer visit, the husky ride, the Polar Museum, the Arctic Cathedral, the Fjellheisen cable car and the ferry to Lyngen.
Will we see the Northern Lights?
We cannot promise it, and nobody honestly can. Tromso lies under the band where the aurora is most often active, but you need a dark, clear sky, and this coast is often cloudy. That is why we plan three chases by minibus, moved to the clearest nights, plus an evening at a dark lodge in Lyngen. Your guide calls hopeless nights off early.
How cold does it get, and what should I pack?
Tromso is often around -2 to -8 C in midwinter, with wind and wet snow; inland, where the chases go, -15 to -25 C is common. We lend you a thermal suit and insulated boots. Bring wool base layers, a fleece, a warm hat, mittens, good socks, ice grips for your shoes and a swimsuit for the sauna.
How big is the group?
The small-group trip runs with 7 to 12 guests in one minibus, so everyone gets a good spot under the sky on a chase and fits around one table at dinner. Other winter trips from Tromso take up to 16 guests, and day-tour aurora buses often carry far more.
Who leads the trip?
A See Sight Tours guide travels with the group from the welcome briefing on day 1 to the airport on day 6, and leads every aurora chase with our driver. A Sami host runs the reindeer visit and local mushers run the husky ride. We name your guide when we confirm your dates.
How fit do I need to be?
Not very. Walks are short, the husky ride is about 10 km and you can sit as the passenger the whole way, and the snowshoe walk is optional. The hard parts are the cold and the late nights: the chases often return after midnight, and you can skip any of them and stay warm at the hotel.
I am travelling solo. What does a room of my own cost?
A room of your own for all five nights is from CAD 1,095 on top of the small-group price, shown before you request to book, with nothing added later. Solo guests share a sled with another guest or the guide, and join the same group, table and chases as everyone else.
When is the best time to go, and can we see whales?
The trip runs from November to March. Late November to mid January is the polar night, with only blue twilight at midday. February has more light and deep snow, and March has long days with the same dark nights. From about November to January you can swap the fjord cruise for a whale safari, when whales are being seen.
Do I need a visa for Norway?
Canadian and US citizens do not need a visa for a short stay. Norway is not in the EU but is in the Schengen area, so Europe's ETIAS travel authorisation will apply once it starts; we tell you before you fly whether it applies to your dates. Your passport should be valid for at least three months after you leave.
Can we visit the Lofoten Islands on this trip?
No. In winter Lofoten is a long drive or a flight from Tromso, and trips that add it spend two days on the road. We keep this trip to Tromso and Lyngen so the time goes on the aurora. Our summer trip, Lofoten and Tromso, covers the islands under the midnight sun.
How does booking work?
Choose a date and style and send a request to book. We check the hotels, the boat, the camp and the kennel and confirm your trip within 24 hours. Nothing is charged until then. Prices are per person sharing a room, with taxes: the small group starts from CAD 6,295, and the private trip from CAD 11,330.
Can we travel privately or on our own dates?
Yes. The trip also runs as a private trip for your party only, on a date you choose, with your own guide, driver and vehicle chasing the aurora for you alone. If you would rather travel independently on your own dates, ask us from the dates section: we can quote the same hotels, activities and transfers.
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