Chasing the aurora in Whitehorse

Travel ✈️ 😄Direct flight from Vancouver to Whitehorse ✈️ with Air North Air North is really great... It's like a "pampering airline" – they offer sandwiches 🥪, freshly baked cookies 🍪, and drinks. 🥛 The service is excellent, the seats are spacious, and there's a checked baggage allowance. 🍵 I wish Air North would expand their routes to cover all of Canada!🇨🇦 · Checking aurora forecast 🔍 👀I kept an eye on the aurora index in advance using the Aurora app. 🤲 When I booked the trip two weeks earlier, the index was 4.0, but it dropped to 2.0 right before departure, which made us really nervous 😓.👣 Accommodation 🏨 We stayed in an aurora-viewing cabin 🛖 for two nights. The best part about the cabin is the convenience of watching👁️ the aurora anytime. The downside is that there's nothing around – it's totally in the wilderness. 👆 The hot water comes from hot springs, so it has a sulfur smell 😂. I showered on the day I arrived, but didn't shower at the cabin for the two nights 🙂. 💞Overall, though, it's clean and tidy! The cabin provides a simple breakfast, and we even got to eat pickled mustard greens🌱 and porridge, which was satisfying. · Itinerary 🚶‍➡️ We arrived around 6 PM. Our guide took us to a supermarket first. 🙉 👉👈The biggest supermarket here is Superstore, but you can also bring supplies from home.🤥 Instant noodles are a must – they’re warm and comforting. 🌝 If you’re staying in a cabin, remember to buy mineral water!💧 Starting at 10 PM, the guide monitored the aurora conditions. When it appeared, they notified everyone and helped take photos 🤳 – great news for those without a camera! We stayed out chasing the aurora until 2 AM.🌤️ Breakfast was at 10 AM, and the sky still wasn’t fully bright.☀️☀️ My friend and I weren’t interested in dog sledding, hot springs, or wildlife watching 😂, so we just explored the downtown area in the afternoon. It’s small – you can walk around it in 2-3 hours. For dinner, we tried the local specialty: bison burger 🍔. Wood bison has a stronger beefy flavor. We went back to chase the aurora at night. The aurora on the second day was much brighter and spread over a larger area than the first!🏘️ We saw the aurora both nights, plus a shooting star 🌠 and the Big Dipper 🌟 – it was totally worth it 😭. Our flight back to Vancouver was at 1 PM, so we slept in and left in the morning.🌥️ It was a perfect trip dedicated to chasing the aurora!🌈 #Yellowknife #Aurora #GreatNorthwest #YellowknifeTravelGuide #ChasingtheLights