ARCTIC ADVENTURE

Swedish Lapland isn't just a place for kids to meet Santa, as we discovered on a trip to this magical part of the world

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Visiting Lapland may be on many children's wish lists, but I've never seen a more excited bunch of adults than when the northern lights appeared on our trip to Sweden. There is no guarantee, so we were very lucky to see them on two consecutive nights.

But every day brought something new and exciting, from sledding and hiking to learning how to build a fire in the snow, meeting the indigenous Sámi people and their reindeer, and donning survival suits to plunge into the Bothnian Sea.

Lapland is a region that covers the most northerly reaches of Scandinavia and is predominantly above the Arctic Circle. We stayed in Luleå, a short flight from Stockholm and the gateway to a magical land of towering pines and blue skies.

Here, you might catch a glimpse of the aurora borealis from August to the end of April, and temperatures can drop as low as -30°C from December until February.

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