The aurora, through a child’s eyes
What it takes to give your children a memory that outlasts the photographs.
Nidhi Jain
Trip Designer · 6 April 2026
Ask an adult about the Northern Lights and they will reach for their phone, then apologise that the photographs never capture it. Ask a child who has seen them and they will simply go quiet, and then talk about it for years.
This is a trip about giving wonder — usually planned by a mother who has decided, this winter, that the family will do something it will never forget.
Engineering for a sky you can’t control
The lights cannot be booked. What can be designed is the best possible chance of them, and a week that is magical whether or not they appear. So the days are full on their own terms: a husky sled through a frozen forest, a reindeer farm and a Finnish lunch, two nights in a glass igloo where the children fall asleep watching the sky.
Kids who see the aurora don’t forget it. We’ve had a 94% sighting rate across three aurora windows.
— Nidhi Jain
We track the forecast each night and wake you when the sky turns — because the one rule of the aurora is that it does not keep polite hours. There is something particular about standing in the snow at one in the morning, your child’s mittened hand in yours, both of you looking up.
Years later, your children may forget the flights and the food. They will not forget the night you woke them for the lights.
