"...here I am at the North Cape, Finnmark's northernmost point, the very end of the world!"

After a long and time consuming trip on horseback, by skis and in fishing boats, the priest and scientist Francesco Negri finally reached the North Cape plateau in 1664 – a destination he found irresistible and thought of as the most exciting place in

Today, tourists know Northern Norway as the "Land of the Midnight Sun". North of the Arctic Circle, the sun does not set between the middle of May and end of July; conversely the sun does not rise between the middle of November and the end of February. August and September are usually nice, offering with stable weather and spectacular sunrises and sunsets!

No wonder, the weather is a hot topic in Finnmark - in just a few hours the weather can change completely from peaceful sunshine to a violent snowstorm. The Gulf Stream provides a temperature along the coast is approx. 20 deg. C (68 deg. F) higher than in other areas at the same latitude. Still, yearly precipitation in Finnmark is about 800 mm (32 inches), and most of it comes as snow during approx. 150

days of frost.

During clear winter nights, the Northern Lights - Aurora Borealis - transforms the skies into a colorful, over-dimensioned monitor, where energy-rich, electrically charged sun particles crash into the earth's magnetic field approx. 100 km (62 miles) above the ground and fills the sky with green, yellow-green and red-violet cascades - a magically magnetic moment!