Iceland‘s last eruption: Bárðarbunga 2014. Photo: Icelandic Met Office Iceland is likely to do justice to its name again: a volcanic eruption is imminent at the so-called “Land of Fire and Ice”. Home of the biggest glaciers in Europe and thousands of...
SPRING AURORAS – WHY YOU SHOULD HUNT THE NORTHERN LIGHTS BETWEEN FEBRUARY AND MID-APRIL If there is one question that we get all the time, it is when is the best time to see the Aurora? The Northern Lights is a captivating but elusive natural phenomenon that...
Why Iceland is the world's best destination to observe the Northern Lights Book your tour 1. Iceland’s pristine landscape and diversity of places With its massive glaciers, volcanic landscapes, geothermal hot springs, and majestic waterfalls, Iceland is...
On Wednesday, Sep 6th 2017, our sun unleashed two massive solar flares, the second of which was the most powerful we’ve seen in more than a decade. The burst of radiation was so intense, it caused high-frequency radio blackouts across the daytime side of Earth that...
KP2 and no promising cloud forecast – but when we stepped out of the Northern Lights Center right after midnight, the sky above Reykjavik opened up… So we quickly headed to the closest dark spot, the lighthouse Grotta. Due to low tide we were able to take...
