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ICEHOTEL - First time to offer Northern Lights during autumn!

In Kiruna, situated 200 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle in Sweden, the northern lights sweeps its green brush across the sky already in August. The region has the Northern hemisphere’s best prerequisites for spotting northern lights and is also the first place where you can travel to look at this phenomenon before the snow spreads its blanket over the landscape.


Photo by Peter Rosén/Abisko STFICEHOTEL tailor northern lights adventures according to your wishes. To get the most out of your stay, combine for example hotel chalet living with wilderness camp accommodation in the middle of Swedish Lapland. Pay a visit to the Aurora Sky Station, 900 meters above the sea; experience the Swedish Alps in Abisko as well as the Laplandish lowlands with the mighty Torne River. Along the way we’ll make sure that your meals will turn into gastronomic adventures.

Learn about mythology and science surrounding the Aurora Borealis. The solar activity, which causes northern lights, reaches its peak this year so an impressive show can be expected over the next couple of years. As of the autumn 2012 ICEHOTEL work together with STF Abisko Tourist Station to tailor meetings, incentives and events that give new meaning to the expression autumn glow.

ICEHOTEL is the world’s first hotel built entirely of ice and snow. It is also the world’s largest: 5500 square meterslarge and built of 21500 tonnes of snice (a mixture of snow and Torne River ice) and 900 tonnes of ice. ICEHOTEL being designed by artists means that the creations are protected by the Swedish copywrite law, this also differentiates ICEHOTEL in Jukkasjärvi from copycats around the world.

For more information, contact Press Officer Helena Sjöholm at +46 70 668 0867 or helena@icehotel.com.

Photo by Peter Rosén

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