See the Northern Lights
On cloudless nights in Lapland you can often see the Northern Lights, the Aurora Borealis. They are a pale fire of green, blue, yellow and red, rising from the horizon. You see them best in the dark, away from the lights of houses and hotels. On a few nights a year you can see them as far south as Helsinki.
You can see the phenomenon in almost any part of Lapland - and sometimes much further south, even in Helsinki when the weather conditions are right. But the best bet is in February-March and September-October in the Kilpisjärvi area in the far north of the country.
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