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8 Tips for Traveling Solo to Tromsø

When I first decided to go to Norway on my own, one of the main things I knew I wanted to see was the Northern Lights, I just wasn’t exactly sure where you see them. For someone who doesn’t know any better, like me, I thought you could pretty much just see them anywhere in Norway, but obviously that is not the case. I  literally did a search for...

10 Crucial Tips for Chasing the Northern Lights

Usually if you want to see a specific landmark or sight, you can just go there and see it, right? Well that’s not exactly the case if you want to see the Northern Lights. The Northern Lights aren’t just a tourist attraction that you can take a tour to, pose for a few selfies and SnapChats, then leave and go post them on Instagram. They’re a natural phenomenon, known...

Chasing the Northern Lights in Norway

“We will hopefully get to see the Northern Lights,” The amount of times that Thomas, my tour guide and owner of the tour company that I used, Chasing Lights, emphasized the word “hopefully” was almost enough to make me worry. Like many people, I was initially naïve to think that all you had to do was go to Norway to see the Northern Lights, but I quickly learned...

10 Best Things to Do in Bergen, Norway

Initially my interest in going to Bergen was sparked when I discovered a train route I could take with my RailEurope flexipass that goes from one side of Norway to the other. It starts in Oslo and ends in Bergen and has several other scenic stops you can make on the way. Since I always enjoy a challenge, the idea of traveling across the entire country while...

8 Hours Stuck on a Train in a Blizzard in Norway

Leave it to me to choose my next travel destination based on the cheapest flight without fully considering exactly why the flights were so cheap during this time of the year. Yes, I knew it was winter in Norway, and yes, I knew attempting to go chase the Northern Lights in the Arctic Circle was going to be beyond freezing, but I was not expecting an actual blizzard...

10 Reasons to Bike Down Bolivia’s Death Road

Not gunna lie, I had no idea that there was something called the Death Road in Bolivia, but after I heard more about it, I knew it was definitely something that I couldn’t miss. The main reason why I wanted to go to Bolivia was to see the Uyuni Salt Flats, but since I had an extra day in La Paz, one of the highest altitude capital cities in the world, I...