Lyonel Perabo

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Hi there, I'm Lyonel, a Northern Lights Hunter and a Ma Student in Folkloristic. I have the pleasure of being a professional Northern Lights hunter with experience both in Iceland and in North Norway where I am now based. Don't hesitate to drop me a line if you want to have some tips on the matter or discuss anything Icelandic/Nordic related

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Hunting the Aurora in Suðurnes

Hello folks! Here in Reykjavík the snow is getting real wet and we’ve got such strong winds that there won’t be any tour tonight. Instead, maybe I could tell you about last night’s tour that ended up surprisingly well? Sunday during the day we got really violent snow-fall. For hours and hours during the night we experienced many inches of snow falling down the skies and I was really starting to question my boss’ wits has he had drafted me to go this very night. By 20, 30 though, the snow-fall had stopped and we went on to pick-up our guests. Unsurprisingly enough, not all of them showed u

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Iceland's Christmas Trees of Light

Let's talk about something else than the Northern Lights, shall we? Iceland's Christmas tree lights light up the city of Reykjavík beautifully. Something that is quite interesting in Iceland during the winter is the lack of light. You know, Iceland is quite close to the Arctic Circle so the days are much longer during the summer but also much shorter in the winter. In December, you should feel contended when you have four hours of daylight! See Also: Iceland in December One effect this darkness has obviously, is to make people long for light! And then when the Christmas 'summer' comes,

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Crazy Lights over Hafnarfjörður

My boss really works me hard ! For the fifth time in a row I got drafted for a tour and as usual, I was really unsure how the evening would be. We did saw some great Northern Lights the day before but the solar activity levels appeared to be goin down in the hour preceeding the tour, but at least weather-wise, it was kinda okay. We went on on a mini-bus this time, but because of a strange case of over-booking, we had to swap bus for a 25 seater instead. After leaving Kopavogur (where our buses were stationed) we continued through Hafnarfjörður towards the end of the Suðurnes peninsula. We

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Northern Lights and the Haystacks

For the fourth night in a row I had been drafted to guide and as often, I was a bit fearful. As you probably have heard, Thursday had been a high point in term of solar activity and it is quite common to have a sharp decline in solar activity (and consequently in Northern Lights) immediately afterwards. We nevertheless picked our guest as usual, this time a in a 19 seater mini-bus and drove out of the city. For this particular night, we thought about driving towards Þingvellir as it appeared that the clearest skies would be East of the city. We consequently drove there and stopped by a da

Northern Lights in Reykjavík (The strongest ones I ever saw)

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Northern Lights in Reykjavík (The strongest ones I ever saw)

Dear Friends, today I will be a man of few words. Yesterday, we experienced some extremely strong Northern-Lights. The Solar activity levels started rising up like crazy already by 18:00 and as we started the tour, a bit before 21:00 you could already see some Northern Lights. I was then really scared that everything would be gone before we could find a good place out of the city lights, but as we drove just a couple of minutes North of Reykjavík the Aurora grew stronger, and stronger, and stronger… We jumped out of the bus on the first parking space available. What followed was, quite

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Northern Lights in Mosfellsheiði

For the second day in a row, I was given the task to go out and hunt the Northern Lights, and for the second day in a row, I was quite fearful of the tour’s outcome. Just like the day before, Solar activity and Weather forecast looked blight at best, and while on Tuesday we managed, I still don’t know how, to find the Aurora, I still wasn’t certain we would be able to do so on Wednesday. Anyway, we picked up our guests for Thingholt Hotel and this time, everyone showed up! Generally there’re always a couple people who get lost, get stolen by another company and so on, but not this time! On

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Northern Lights in Kleifarvatn

There are days when you know you’re going to have a hard time seeing the Northern Lights. Last night was one of those nights. Basically, we had been lucky to enjoy a week of quite strong solar activity, coupled with great clear skies. As far as the reading went, it seemed that last night was to have very little to no solar activity and very thick cloud covering. We went out nevertheless and headed towards the South Coast, where the skies were supposed to be at least partially open towards midnight. We headed therefore south, crossing Hafnarfjörður and entered the Eastern part of the Suður

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Northern Lights and Moon Rise

The other day I got a call from my boss…and I guess you know what happened next. Yes, I had been booked for a Northern Lights tour! I hadn’t been called for over a week since the four rather good days we had in the beginning of the month. This time, it looked like the Solar Activity was going to be quite okay but that the Weather might be a problem (well, it’s like always a problem if you ask me). But this time I was given the task of guiding a group in a mini-bus and it sounded all quite nice! We started the tour at about nine and picked up our guests at their various hotels and guest

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Overwhelming Northern Lights in Laxá

For the fourth day in a row I had been drafted to go out Northern Lights hunting. The past three nights had already been quite successful with Northern Lights way stronger than average and I feared that the Aurora would recede, or even completely fade away after such a bountiful week-end. Uncertain about the evening’s fate, I boarded the bus and picked up our guests. The weather forecast had announced extremely cloudy weather for just about everywhere in Iceland and it was with some surprise that, as we headed for Mount Esja, we spotted numerous stars, clear signs that we had some decen

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