If you are the adventure type and looking for 24/24 hour action you can explore Spitsbergen in July and enjoy the 24 hour sun of the polar summer.
Although this archipelago is the most accessible point of the North Pole it does not appear on tourist routes. So the only way to visit this wonder land is a 7 or 9 days cruise.
The center of Spitsbergen Region is Longyearbyen and is accessible by plane from Tromso, Norway. It is also a landmark of the arctic cruises.
Flights from Longyearbyen go to Ny Alesund; many other important sights can be visited in organized tours or cruises.
Suggestions for your journey:
• Explore Longyearbyen: art gallery, historic cemetery, follow the Burma trail and visit the City Museum.
• Search for tropical plant fossils when you make a tour to Longyeardalen or Bolterdalen.
• Try a kayak ride through the frozen water or a horseback expedition to the Plataberget Mountain to admire the amazing landscape.
• During the cruise you can visit: Russian mines from Barentsburg and Moffen Island to see the seals. You can take the Zodiac-Rubber boat and stop on Magdalenefjord, see the historic sights from Amsterdamoya Island and Virgohamna on Danskoya Island.
• Visit the scientific point Ny Alesund, the world’s northernmost civilian community. Here you can admire the Kronebreen glacier.
• Return to Longyearbyen and visit Lillehookbreen glacier. Then stop to Ebeltoftbukta and analyse the peaks from Krossfjorden.
Travel advices:
• take with you clothes for all kinds of weather.
• do not leave the organized tour and go alone in the wild, the polar bears are very dangerous.
• take of your shoes when you visit a house, office, hotel or museum – it is the local custom.
• book early for the best offers