Bell Tours

  There's a moment that happens on almost every good aurora night. The group has been standing outside for an hour, stamping their feet against the cold, starting to wonder if tonight is going to be a bust. Then someone notices a faint smudge of green low on the northern horizon. Nobody says much at first. They just point. Within minutes, that smudge has stretched across the sky, brightened into ribbons of light, and started to move in ways that don't seem possible. That's when the silence breaks, and the cameras come out. Whitehorse Aurora Borealis Tours exists to put travelers in the right place at the right time for exactly that moment. The Yukon is one of the best places on the planet to see the northern lights, and Whitehorse sits right in the middle of the action. But seeing the aurora isn't like visiting a museum. There's no guarantee, no fixed schedule, and no amount of money that can make the clouds part. What a good tour can do is stack the odds, handle t...