Northern Lights Evening at Camp Barentz

A bus will pick you up at the hotel. As we leave town and drive into the large Adventdalen (the ‘Advent Valley’), the anticipation increases. The mountains on both sides of the valley loom over us like giants, hardly visible in the polar night. What awaits at the end of the road?

After a 10–15 minute drive, we arrive at Camp Barentz. This is a small set of cabins, one of which is a copy of the cabin that the discoverer of Svalbard, Willem Barentz, overwintered in on Novaya Zemlya in 1596. We are met by our knowledgeable host for the evening – who also is equipped with polar bear protection, since the cabin is located outside town. In front of a large campfire inside, we get served some drinks, a delicious homemade reindeer bidos and coffee and dessert. Then it is time to learn more about the northern lights. We will sit around the fire, while our host shares information and photographs explaining this incredible phenomenon.

At Camp Barentz, far from the artificial lights in town, you have the perfect conditions for enjoying the northern lights. With some luck, we will round off the evening by watching it with our own eyes in the sky outside. Then the bus comes to pick us up again, and we return to Longyearbyen.