Experience the Northern Lights through the lens of a camera.

The Nighttime Photography Tour is an evening experience designed for guests who want to do more than simply watch the Northern Lights. During the tour, you will borrow a camera and learn how to use the correct settings to photograph the aurora and the Arctic night.

Together with your local guide, you leave the lights behind and travel to carefully selected locations around Harads where the sky is dark and the surroundings provide good conditions for photography.

Before and during the tour, your guide will help you understand the basic camera settings needed for Northern Lights photography, including shutter speed, aperture, ISO and focus. You will learn by doing, with individual guidance adapted to your previous experience.

When conditions are right, we spend the evening photographing the Northern Lights, experimenting with different compositions and learning how changes in the aurora affect the camera settings.

The experience is not only about photography. It is also about being outside in the Arctic night, surrounded by forest, snow and darkness while waiting for the sky to change.

No previous photography experience is required.

Photography

A camera is provided during the activity.

You will learn:

• How to photograph the Northern Lights
• Manual camera settings
• ISO, shutter speed and aperture
• Manual focusing in darkness
• How to use a tripod
• How to compose photographs in the Arctic landscape
• How to adapt your settings as the Northern Lights change

The focus is practical rather than theoretical. You use the camera throughout the evening and your guide helps you adjust the settings as conditions change.

Northern Lights

The Northern Lights are a natural phenomenon and can never be guaranteed. We follow weather conditions, cloud cover and aurora forecasts and choose the location according to the conditions of the evening.

Even on nights when the aurora is weak or if it’s cloudy, the tour provides an opportunity to learn nighttime photography and experience the Arctic landscape after dark.

Included

• Local Arctic Adventure guide
• Camera during the activity
• Tripod
• Photography instruction
• Transport to selected photography locations
• Northern Lights and weather interpretation
• Hot coffee or tea
• Homemade pastries
• Local flavours around the fire

Who is this experience for?

The tour is suitable both for complete beginners and guests who already have some photography experience. You do not need to understand manual camera settings before the activity. The purpose of the experience is to teach you how they work in real conditions.

Important

Northern Lights cannot be guaranteed. Weather, clouds and solar activity determine whether the aurora will be visible.

Step into the twilight silence of Swedish Lapland and discover one of the forest’s most fascinating animals: the beaver.

As evening settles over the landscape, your guide takes you by boat through calm waters surrounded by old forests, wetlands, and hidden beaver lodges. The beaver is most active during the quiet hours of the evening, and with patience and a little luck, you may observe it swimming silently across the water, gathering branches, or maintaining its lodge.

Along the journey, your guide shares stories about the beaver’s remarkable return to Sweden, its behavior, and how this skilled ecosystem engineer shapes the surrounding wetlands and forests.

We make a stop in nature to enjoy coffee or tea with homemade pastries while listening to the sounds of the northern wilderness.

This is a peaceful and authentic wildlife experience, far from crowds and close to nature.

Please note: During autumn, this activity is unavailable once the water temperature drops to +12°C or below.

Included

• Guided boat safari
• Wildlife and nature interpretation
• Coffee, tea and homemade pastries
• Life jacket
• Binoculars (if available)
• Transfers from Harads by arrangement
• Lunch

What to Bring

• Outdoor clothing suitable for the weather
• Warm sweater or jacket (even summer evenings can be cool)
• Camera
• Hat and gloves during early spring and autumn

Wildlife and Natur

During the safari, guests may encounter:

• Beaver
• Moose
• Roe deer
• Various waterfowl
• Cranes
• Eagles
• Forest birds

Wildlife sightings can never be guaranteed, but the evening hours offer excellent opportunities for observation.

Experience an intimate evening shaped by nature, storytelling, and the authentic flavors of Arctic Sweden. Deep in the Arctic forest, beside the still waters of Lake Båttjärnen, we invite you to a three-course dinner prepared over an traditionally muurikka under the vast northern sky.

Your journey begins with a short transfer into the secluded Tallberg forest landscape. Just ten meters from the shore of Lake Båttjärnen, a private outdoor dining setting awaits, illuminated by the glow of a crackling fire. Here, the silence of the wilderness is broken only by the stories of your guides and the sounds of the forest.

Local food

The menu is a tribute to the Arctic, featuring ingredients harvested from the surrounding rivers, forests, and mountains. You will enjoy fish sustainably caught in the Lule River or local reindeer and moose from the Harads area, all prepared over a traditional muurikka. Each dish is thoughtfully paired with selected wines or non-alcoholic alternatives, creating a dining experience where Nordic culinary traditions meet the profound stillness of nature.

Details & Facts

• Type of Activity: Professional guided wilderness dining experience.
• Location: Tallberg forest landscape, 10 meters from Lake Båttjärnen, Harads, Swedish Lapland.
• Start Times: Daily departures at 16:30 and 20:30.
• Duration: Approximately 3–4 hours including transfers.
• What’s Included:
  • Round-trip transfers from accommodation in Harads.
  • A guided storytelling session about Arctic nature and culture.
  • A premium three-course dinner cooked on a traditional muurikka.
  • Selected wine pairings or high-quality alcohol-free options.
• Menu Options: Sustainably caught fish or locally sourced meat (reindeer/moose). Vegetarian meals are available upon request.
• What to Wear: Please wear regular outdoor clothing suitable for current weather conditions.

How to Book: Reservations are made by e-mail request to info@arcticadventure.se.

Experience the winter night in the woodland of Arctic Sweden, get a chance to see the Northern Lights

Step into the magic of the Arctic night. On this two-hour evening adventure, we leave the village behind and travel to one of our carefully chosen Northern Lights viewing spots. Far from artificial lights, the dark winter sky opens up, giving us the best chance to see the aurora borealis in all its beauty.

Your main guide, together with an assisting guide, will lead the way and share stories about the northern lights, Arctic nature, and life in Lapland. At our destination, we’ll make a warming open fire, where you can enjoy freshly brewed coffee or tea, served together with homemade pastries and a tasting of local delicacies.

As we sit around the crackling fire, you’ll experience the stillness of the winter night while waiting for the northern lights to dance across the sky. Whether the aurora shows itself in soft green waves or in powerful bursts of color, the moment will stay with you forever.

Learn about the northern lights, the winter and about the lifestyle in the arctic.

Included

• Transfer to a private outdoor location.
• Making fire, heating drinks on the flames, lingonberry juice or tea.
• Local delicacies: reindeer, moose and homemade pastries.
• Time 20:30 – 22:30

Experience one of Arctic Sweden’s most impressive natural landmarks on a private journey to Storforsen, where the free-flowing Pite River reveals its extraordinary power.

Storforsen is one of Europe’s largest unregulated rapids. Here, enormous volumes of water surge through a dramatic landscape of exposed bedrock, old pine forest and channels shaped by the river over thousands of years.

This private experience is designed to go beyond the traditional visit to the main viewpoint.

Together with your private guide, you explore the river on foot, following carefully selected trails and quieter paths through the nature reserve. Along the way, the guide introduces the ecology of the Pite River, the forces that created the landscape and the importance of free-flowing rivers in northern Scandinavia.

The experience changes with the seasons. During spring and early summer, snowmelt transforms Storforsen into an immense display of moving water. Later in summer, lower flows expose polished rock formations, old channels and smaller streams that are hidden beneath the river during high water.

There is time to stop to listen and simply experience the sound and physical presence of the river.

Private Riverside Lunch

Away from the busiest viewpoints, your guide prepares a private outdoor lunch in a carefully selected location overlooking the river or surrounded by the forest.

The meal is inspired by northern Sweden and prepared outdoors whenever conditions allow, using selected local and regional ingredients.

Coffee and homemade fika are served during the experience.

Rather than being treated simply as a meal stop, lunch becomes part of the journey, a quiet contrast to the immense power of the mighty rapids Storforsen.

The Story of a Free-Flowing River

The Pite River is one of Sweden’s four national rivers protected from large-scale hydropower development.

During the experience, the guide explains how flowing water has shaped both the landscape and human life along the river. Depending on the interests of the guests, the interpretation can include river ecology, migratory fish, traditional use of the river, forestry, conservation and modern river management.

This makes the experience equally suitable for guests looking for an extraordinary nature experience and those with a deeper interest in Scandinavian landscapes and environmental history.

The Character of the Experience

This is not a rushed sightseeing excursion.

It is a private encounter with one of the great rivers of Arctic Sweden — combining dramatic nature, local knowledge, food and time in the landscape.

Raw water. Ancient rock. Old forest.

Storforsen is not something you simply see. It is something you feel.

Included

• Private Arctic Adventure guide
• Private transportation
• Guided hike and interpretation
• Outdoor lunch
• Homemade fika, coffee and tea, cold beverages

The landscape around Korgen and Stormyran brings together old forest, open mire and the subtle transitions between dry ground and wetland. Your guide selects the most suitable route according to weather, water levels, ground conditions and the wishes of the group.

There is no need to hurry. Time is allowed for wildlife signs, seasonal details, photography and the stories that make the landscape understandable. The experience is personal and flexible, with the guide adapting the pace and content throughout the day.

What makes the day special

• A private setting. The experience is reserved for your party and shaped around your interests.
• Local interpretation. The guide shares practical knowledge of forest ecology, wetlands, wildlife and human use of the landscape.
• Time to be present. The pace allows space for observation, conversation and photography.
• Lunch in the landscape. A carefully prepared outdoor lunch and hot drinks are served at a suitable sheltered place.
• Top hike in a nature reserve. Hike to the top of the mountain in a beautiful untouched Nature reserve.

A considered outdoor meal

Lunch is part of the experience, not merely a pause in it. The guide chooses a comfortable place in the landscape and serves a seasonal outdoor meal inspired by local ingredients, followed later by Swedish fika with coffee or tea and something homemade. Dietary requirements and serious allergies must be provided when booking.

Included

• Private local nature guide
• Five hour guided wilderness experience
• Seasonal outdoor lunch lingonberry drink and Swedish fika with coffiee
• Safety equipment carried by the guide

Who this experience suits

This experience suits guests who are comfortable walking for several hours on uneven natural ground. Parts of the route may be wet, soft, slippery or without a prepared trail. Please contact us before booking if a participant has mobility limitations.

The salmon and trout fishing in the Lule river has become well known throughout Sweden. Trout of up to 5 kg and salmon of up to 20 kg are caught here annually on a casting rod.

Our professional fishing guide will show you how to catch Baltic salmon or trout in one of the best fishing rivers in Europe.

Periods

• 15 April – 1 June (trout, salmon as by-catch)
• 1 July – 15 August (fresh salmon, trout as by-catch)
• 20 September – 1 November (bronze salmon and trout)

Included

• A professional fishing guide
• All fishing equipment
• All fishing baits
• Lunch and fika with coffee
• Fishing license
• Rain gear