Into the Artic, Kiruna ( 2 Jan 07 - 7 Jan 07) The last trip before returning to Singapore.. Kiruna, up north of Sweden into the artic. Over there the temperature is as low as -25 degree. Don't know how I survived the cold.. haha.. We went to the ice hotel on the first day. Ice hotel.. As the name suggest, the whole hotel is made of ice. There is this absolute ice bar in the hotel where we drink from this ice cup! The next two day we follow this northern light tour which brings us to a base camp where we stay there for one night. During this tour we did not manage to see the northern lights thus, we decided to stay another night (change our train tickets). Lucky we stayed one more night.. If not we will miss the beautiful northern lights! The last day we went to this iron ore mine.. Largest iron ore mine in the world.. The tour just intro us the mine and tell us how the iron ore are mined and processed and bring us into the underground mine tunnel.

Entrance to the ice hotel..

One of the ice hotel bed..

Ice bar.. everything is ice..

Drinking from the ice cup.

A night of fireworks..

First time on a dog sledge!

Having fun on the snow mobile!

Snow.. till my knee level..Trekking in the snow..

Northern lights!! Beautiful..

Kiruna..Kiruna Church..

I like that background.. so "magical" and beautiful..

The place there is so white with snow.. so beautiful.. especially the northern light.. We had a try on the dog sledge, snow mobile, rafting cross the rapids, chopping wood to keep warm, bbq with the firewoods, sauna and then running out to the snow, hiking in the snow forest.. everything is so close to natural.. the feeling is so different, so special.. Such a wonderful experience..