Abisko

Finally update time!

It was 3 weeks ago, on 23th of March, when we got together at the trainstaion in Uppsala and were waiting for the train. We had pretty nice train (not as creepy as I'm used to) with comfy seats. Unfortunately we couldn't sit next to each other with everybody in the group but at least we were in the same waggon.

18 hours later we managed to get off the train at the wrong station at Abisko Turiststaion so the sightseeing tour had begun earlier than we expected.. Fortunately our host picked our luggage so the 3-4 km walk was not that bad.

This was the view from our hostel window.
Tha train station was under construction so we had those nice blue boxes instead of red lodge.
On the right side was a mountain (with ski slopes of course) and behind the houses were a huge lake (totally frozen of course).

On our first night we were hounting some northern light and thats what we've got:

And this one with the most of our group (names from left in the back row):

Raphael, Sarah, Orsi, Miguel;
Morgane, Magdalena, Juliet, Josef;
Daniel, Jack, Nina, Guillaume, James;
Imke, me, Kris.

Missing: Teatske, Ellie, Thomas, Cécile

Typical swedish house

Next day we were dog sledding and cross country skiing. I didn't bring my camera to sledding. I thought I'm happy if I can control the dogs. This decision seemed reasonable since my dogs were strong and motivated so I had to jump on the brake with both legs when I wanted to stop them (and sometimes this wasn't enough...)
Cross country skiing was tiring for the first time but a lot of fun!
This picture was taken on the frozen lake. We decided to go to a small island. Of course in the middle of the lake it was pretty windy...

Over the Arctic Circle at Lake Torneträsk, latitude: +68° 21' 21.06"; longitude: +18° 50' 45.91"

This is what Abisko is famous for (not the guys and Guillaume who always makes crazy things): the blue, cloudless hole on the sky. This is why you usually can see Aurora borealis even though it's cludy outskirts.

Campfire on the lake. It sounded weird for the firs time... On our latitude it's nearly impossible, but they had more than 1m ice on the lake so it was safe. But we stayed close to the coasts :D

 Well, he is just Guillaume.. We don't laugh at him, we laugh with him! Crazy frenchie!

Abisko Skola. Typical swedish again.

 I like that huge, old bell.

Where we supposed to got off at the firs time... Abisko östra

Safety arrangements. Oh and it was forbidden to cross the rails with snowmobile..

Safety arrangements seemed reasonable as you can see below. The town had busy heavy traffic though they had only 2 trains for passengers a day (one from the south heading to Narvik and one from Narvik to back to South Sweden).

The view from the blue box. We were waiting almost an hour for the train and I was bored so I just played around with my camera.
It was good to see that they also have problems with delay though they have snow in 8-9 month a year and rarely have 0°C except in July, August and September. But the train company is quite fair, you can get pretty much refound if your train was late! ;)