Northern Lights

No promises. No tickets.

Northern Lights cannot be booked, scheduled or guaranteed.

Some nights they never appear. Some nights they fill the entire sky.

At the Reindeer Ranch by Lake Peerajärvi, far from artificial light, guests often watch them from the Glass Igloos, Villa Vasara or the lakeshore.

Sometimes the best seat is simply the one you are already sitting in

When the sky decides

Long before science explained the Northern Lights, people created stories.

In Finland, they became known as revontulet – fox fires. According to folklore, a magical fox ran across the snowy fells, sending sparks from its tail into the night sky.

For the Sámi, the Northern Lights were something else entirely. They were treated with respect and caution. Some believed they were the spirits of ancestors moving across the sky. Others believed they carried messages from another world. Children were taught not to mock them, whistle at them or draw unnecessary attention to them.

Today we know that the Northern Lights are created when particles from the sun meet the Earth’s atmosphere.

Yet standing beneath them, it is easy to understand why people once searched for other explanations.

Some things are easier to feel than to explain.