| On the way back to the lodge, I went for the restaurant "Tower" near K-Market for dinner. I visitede there for the 1st time. |
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It has not only local meals but also Asian ones. I wanted to have Asian
foods for a change that day. As one of Asians, I felt that it was suited to Asian tastes. |
 Look at the sunset!! It was blazing red.  |
---------- Change of Strategy ---------- Suddenlly, the sky got very cloudy that night. It was totally |
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different from that evening with the beautiful sunset. But I had to not abandon the last chance for Northern Lights. |
| I just went to the lake. It was -17 degrees. But I felt very cold at that time because I thought there was little hope of sucess. If the great aurora apperaes, |
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it helps me forget freezing cold, being into Northern Lights every year, even though the temperature is less than -20 degrees.  |
Just as I thought, the sky didn't get better at all, so I ran into a cafe along the lake for warming myself up. It already got late so there were |
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just severel customers. It was like that I was the only customer, who was waiting for Northern Lights. Everyone except me had some cafee relaxing light, so I was embarrassed that I alone had many layers on... |
  About 30 minutes later, I went out again. Oh dear!! It got much worse with fog... No hope!! In no time, I changed my plan to "Early to bed and early to reise" |
| ----- The 4th?? Northern Lights----- At 4 in the early morning, the sky was so clear!! |
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I couldn't believe it was very cloudy and foggy last night. I rushed into the lake and could see Northern Lights. But it was nothing... If the persons who had never seen Northern Lights before saw it, |
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they might've been really moved. But... Considering Aurora/Northern Lights I'd seen before, I couldn't count this as my Aurora/Northern Lights experiences. |
 I waited for Aurora to get bigger about for an hour, but didn't. And it was getting light so I got back to the lodge.  |
But... In the world, there are many tourists who couldn't see Northern Lights during thier trips, no matter how hard |
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they wish. Judging from that, I'm so blessed and happy!! I stay in Äkäslompolo for 5 nights every year and |
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It was my personal record that I could see Aurora/Northern Lights four nights out of five ones for the moment. Congratulations! To be continued!! |