GuideGunnar

04/08/2024

GuideGunnar’s Aurora Blog - check and follow what happens on the sky here in the north 😊

Last season ended great in April … it’s ends when the sky is too bright.

So, what will the next season give us of Lady Aurora’s performance …

The solar max period will last in 2024 - 2025 - 2026 🤓

But, which night will be the best ?
In my Aurora Blog you’ll find the facts about this … which many of my Aurora guests are asking about …

GuideGunnar`s Aurora Blog is a place where you can see what happened last night, -week, -months and -years, during my chasing the northern lights in Northern Norway. I write about the weather in Tromsø, where we found clear sky, where we drove, how the activity was, and what we saw on the sky and a...

02/08/2024

On my way to the blue lake again with two guests from Belgium 😊

My pickup place is at the Magic Ice bar in Tromsø city.

If you like to join me next week, please book online, https://guidegunnar.no/ac/northern-lights-arctic-excursions/back-to-nature

31/07/2024

GuideGunnar`s Aurora Chase Tromsø

- My 19. Aurora season starts up at September 4th.
- I passed 2,000 nights of chasing in March 2024.
- I am today Tromsø`s longest running Aurora Guide
- 27 years in the travel business as GuideGunnar

Into the next Aurora season I will run the tours with my new fancy and very comfortable 17 seats Mercedes Sprinter minibus.

Welcome to join me ;)

By the way, please check my calendar before you book flights and accommodation, since severeal nights and periods are already fully booked, cause several package tours and Private Aurora Chases.

Please secure your seats online,
https://guidegunnar.no/ac/northern-lights-arctic-excursions/northern-lights

ps: If you book a chase with me, then you know who will be the guide ;)

25/07/2024

This week the midnight sun period is over and we goes towards darker nights again …

Within a month we can view Lady Aurora’s dance on blue sky together with the glow of the sunset …

It’s Equinox Aurora time … and I just love it 😊

Welcome to Tromsø for join the beauty of September …

23/07/2024

In my backyard just now 😊 such a beautiful and a very warm day here in the Arctic …

20/07/2024

A short hike up in the mountains in my backyard for picking some cloudberries 😊

It’s warm temperatures in the Arctic this summer, but today it was little cloudy, so it’s better to be out …

Third tour for the cloudberries this week 🤓

17/07/2024

SAVE NOK 155 by book today 😊

Just for your information: I will rise the price on GuideGunnar’s Aurora Chase from 1795 > 1950 per guest this autumn.

The original Aurora Chase

I am the first and longest running Aurora Guide in Tromsø and Northern Norway!

BOOK ONLINE - https://GuideGunnar.no

14/07/2024

"Half an hour later, Gunnar pulls into a siding. He flicks on the interior light over the driver's seat. Thirteen silent faces look at him. We're in the middle of nowhere, the van's windows have fogged up, and he turns to us in his furry hat. It's all a bit surreal, and I have goosebumps.

But, then Gunnar begins what he does best. He talks. He shows us a map and begins to explain about the solar winds, the magnetic North Pole, about collisions and exploding light. We're off like storm chasers across the frozen landscape. Gunnar cites Norse mythology: 'If you whistle or wave at the lights, the spirits will take you away,' he says."

- by Marian McGuinness, The Sydney Morning Herald.

10/07/2024

My summer program 2024 - 2030

Wednesday: Private Arctic Summer (Kvaløya island)
Thursday & Friday: Blue Lake hike & sightseeing (Lyngen)
Saturday: Midnight Sun Dinner (Kvaløya island)

In June and July you can also get the hike to the blue lake as a private tour by midnight, it`s daylight 24/7.

In September you can do a combo: Blue Lake Hike & Aurora Chase.

Not so many bookings this summer, but it takes time to get new tours well know.

09/07/2024

10 more nights (160 new seats) available for my Aurora Chases in February 2025 ;)

Please secure your seats today and join me in one of the most comfy Aurora buses in the city!

- 26 years as a prof. driver
- 27 years in travel business and as GuideGunnar
- Longest running Aurora Guide in Tromsø
- Been out there on over 2,000 nights of chasing

BOOK ONLINE - https://guidegunnar.no/ac/northern-lights-arctic-excursions/northern-lights

07/07/2024

No bookings for my ‘Midnight Sun Dinner’ last night, so I packed my car and escaped to my sea house in Finnmark, 110 km south of North Cape, and enjoyed the silence for myself on my birthday 🤪

And tonight I made a new dinner out here … it’s lovely …

If you like to join me on tour this summer, or outdoors for a dinner, please check the tour info and book online !

https://guidegunnar.no/ac/northern-lights-arctic-excursions/back-to-nature

05/07/2024

The Blue Lake hike with me 😊

Why do you need sturdy hiking boots for this lovely hike to the bluest lake in the world:

- The path starts very good, where you also can use a wheelchair, but that just in the beginning …

- Please check how rough the path will be later on all my pics for this hike 😊 we’re taking about 8 km with a rocky terrain!!

The pics didn’t show how blue the lake really are …

Join me 😊

BOOK ONLINE - https://guidegunnar.no/ac/northern-lights-arctic-excursions/back-to-nature

Option 1 (8 hours):

- Return drive to Lyngen Alps incl one ferry twice.
- 3-4 hours hike to the Blue Lake
- 45 mins break at the lake

Option 2 (+10 hours):

- Drive to Lyngen Alps incl one ferry.
- 3-4 hours hike to the Blue Lake
- +1 hours break at the lake
- Sightsee drive all around Lyngen Alps
- Visit our “Toblerone mountain”
- Dinner along the return drive

02/07/2024

From September 6th you can again join me for a Aurora Chase out from Tromsø ... it`s my 19. Aurora season ... and with over 2,000 nights out there, I am the longest running Aurora Guide in the city ;)

Please check the info on the tour page, and book your chases online,
https://guidegunnar.no/ac/northern-lights-arctic-excursions/northern-lights

How`s the September Aurora ? (pics & facts from 2023)
https://guidegunnar.no/a/information-guidegunnar/aurora-blog/aurora-blog-2023/september-2023

Which is the best Aurora month ?
https://guidegunnar.no/ac/information-guidegunnar/aurora-blog/the-best-aurora-month

September is my favorite Aurora month ... Equinox Aurora, autumn colors in the nature, no snow, no mosquitoes, still warm temperatures, lovely sunsets ...

In September you can also do a combo; Aurora Chase + Blue Lake hike. Please send me an request for dates you don`t find in the calendar.

Experience Aurora Borealis, the northern lights with GuideGunnar – as seen in

02/07/2024

At July 4th I will run the first tour to the Bluest Lake in the world in the Lyngen Alps.

It will be more than a hike to the Blue Lake ... also a sightseeing drive around the mountain ridge, and a dinner on the return back to Tromsø.

In September you can also do a combo; Aurora Chase + Blue Lake hike. Please send me an request for dates you don`t find in the calendar.

Please check more info and book your summer tour with me online, https://guidegunnar.no/ac/northern-lights-arctic-excursions/back-to-nature

28/06/2024

GuideGunnar’s Aurora Chase Tromsø 2024/25

Available seats 😊

September: 122
October: 164
November: 199
December: 160
January: 75
February: 32
March: 80
April: 64

Secure your seats today !

BOOK ONLINE - https://guidegunnar.no/ac/northern-lights-arctic-excursions/northern-lights

23/06/2024

GuideGunnar - The Travel Designer
Let me tailor made your dream come through package!

Planning the details for my new Arctic Excursions package tours 2025/26

New packages:
7 days Into the Sami District - Alta & Kautokeino
7 days Into to Cod District - Lofoten
9 days Into the Cod District - Lofoten & Vesterålen

5 days Lyngen Alps & the Magic of Senja is already ready for you.

Please check all details on the tour page, and send me an request per email, if you`re planning a week stay in Northern Norway.

GuideGunnar`s Arctic Excursions since 2004 ;)
https://guidegunnar.no/ac/northern-lights-arctic-excursions/arctic-excursions

My Private Arctic Excursions packages are available for 2-8 guests.

ps: Next season I will hopefully have the package tours ready for individual bookings too ;) Booking will be available for only one guest too, but will only run if at least 4 guests have booked ... 1+1+2=4.

20/06/2024

Marketing is King 😊

My private car I use mostly for short drives into the city and away from Tromsø for the long drives to south Norway, and in April 2025 I will use it for my longest road trip and marketing tour through 21-24 European countries 😎

My driving plan for now: Tromsø, Norway - Finland - Estonia - Latvia (new country for me) - Lithuania (new) - Poland - Slovakia - Hungary - Romania (new) - Bulgaria (new) - Turkey ? (new) - Greece - Albania (new) - Montenegro (new) - Bosnia-Hercegovina ? (new) - Croatia (new) - Slovenia (new) - Italy - Switzerland - France - Belgium - Netherlands - Germany - Denmark - Faroe Islands ? (new) … home 😊

19/06/2024

DNT Gråhøgdbu Rondane south, Venabygdsfjellet mountain, which is history now since they have moved the cabin cause protection of the wild reindeers tribe in Rondane National Park.

A cabin I used a lot for day- and overnight tours out from Venabu Fjellhotell where I had my first guide job as a ski guide in 1997, and this pictures is from my 20 years celebration of GuideGunnar with my good friend and one of my first guests, Axel from Germany in 2017.

Before I got headhunted to Tromsø in 2003 I was skiing guide- and instructor in the winter (at three hotels and for three british tour operators) and glacier guide at Briksdal during the summer, from 1998 - 2005, for Breoppleving .

In Rondane I also did my own and first package tour; A 12 days Christmas & New Year hotel-to-hotel ski tour 2004 - 2007.

So, it was not only Northern Lights from the beginning of that business in 2006 ...

12/06/2024

What do you think about this “crazy” (?) idea for next season ?

Thinking about to give you an price for my chase from NOK 2,500 - 1,500 per guest, after which point I set in my Aurora Blog 🤡

So, you’ve to pay NOK 2,500, but I will refund you minus 100 per point I set, after this model;

10/10 = 2,500
9/10 = 2,400
8/10 = 2,300

…

2/10 = 1,700
1/10 = 1,600
0/10 = 1,500

Please check the details in my trusty Aurora Blog and how it has been the last seasons, https://guidegunnar.no/ac/information-guidegunnar/aurora-blog

This picture is the view from my kitchen window 😊 in the future you can get an experience of this when my construction of the house is ready and I will sell a ‘Home stay with Gunnar’ 🤡 for a dinner, nature-sea- Aurora view, overnight stay and breakfast …

10/06/2024

September 6th I am starting up my Aurora season no. 19 … passed 2,000 nights of chasing in April …

Season 2024/25 is more popular than ever, so it’s smart not to wait too long with your bookings, if you like to join me on a specific night …

January and February 2025 is close to fully cause 3x Arctic Excursions package tours …

Private Aurora Chases with dinner or not is also more popular than before …

Please check the tour page for all info, and book your chases online, https://guidegunnar.no/ac/northern-lights-arctic-excursions/northern-lights

If you like to join me on a tailor made Private Arctic Excursions package tour, is time to think and plan for next season, 2025/26 😎

31/05/2024

EURO Road trip 2024

In Italy today, close to Pescara just now … Greece tomorrow, and then out to Crete where the cars owner lives … which I have been driven from Oslo 😎

Have had nights in Varberg, Sweden - Bispingen, Germany - Vaduz, Liechtenstein - Bellagio, at Lake Como, Italy - Rimini, Italy after a short visit to San Marino 😊

Next two nights on ferries …

23/05/2024

Join me this summer ;) tours are published on my site just now ...

Please book online on https://GuideGunnar.no

PRIVATE ARCTIC SUMMER - an round trip sightseeing around Kvaløya island, incl. lunch at Sommarøy ... you can get it as midnight tour too, without lunch.

THE BLUE LAKE HIKE - follow me to the Lyngen Alps for do a hike to the bluest lake in the world. A long return sightseeing trip, incl. late lunch / early dinner.

MIDNIGHT SUN DINNER - follow me out to one of the beaches on Kvaløya island with ocean view, where the sun never sets. A dinner will be made by me over open fire, while you just enjoy the silence ...

It`s available from June 26th to September 12th ;)

15/05/2024

Full Moon Aurora Corona over Tromsø city 😊

At May 10th, 2024 Aurora travelers world wide could experience crazy good Aurora over theirs home and city … was this the start signal of the next years Solar Max period ?

In Tromsø and Northern Norway we can see the Northern Lights close to every night when we have darkness, from end of August to mid April …

Join me - BOOK ONLINE - GuideGunnar.no

13/05/2024

Our guests 2023/24 season

- 2 minibuses
- 2102 guests
- 66 countries
- 3 new countries; Macedonia, Serbia and Tanzania
- 103 countries since 2006

Top 10 guests & countries

1. China 338
2. USA 265
3. Germany 259
4. UK 168
5. India 163
6. Australien 95
7. Taiwan 77
8. Italy 74
9. Hong Kong 65
10. Singapore 62

Guests from Hong Kong was the majority on my chases in 2016-18, but you know the story ... my support is still with the people of Hong Kong ;)

September Aurora on blue sky, together with the glow of the sunset ...

If you like to experience this, join me in the best period of the Aurora season incl. Autumn colors in the nature; It´s Equinox Aurora time ;)

BOOK ONLINE - https://GuideGunnar.no

12/05/2024

Northern lights in Estonian 😊

The best Aurora show since October Red in 2003 …

Thanks Markus Varik for sharing

11/05/2024

Great Aurora show last night and this morning over whole Europe and southern states of USA, even in South America (southern lights) …

The best one was probably 7 am UTC+1 😎

Have got Aurora reports from Minnesota, Bulgaria, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Argentina, UK …

Here in the north it’s daylight 24/7 … so, see you in September 😊

Join me - BOOK ONLINE today!

https://guidegunnar.no/ac/northern-lights-arctic-excursions/northern-lights

07/05/2024

Then was my 10 years old minibus sold 🤓

Next stop Moldova (!)

I spend 394,577 km in this one, mostly out for chasing Aurora from September 2014 to March 2024.

And the next years you’re welcome to join me in my brand new one which I got last February 😊

See you …

04/05/2024

My own tours this summer, autumn and winter 😊

June - September

The Blue Lake hike
Midnight Sun Dinner
Private Arctic summer

September - April

Aurora Chase
Private Aurora Chase
Private Aurora Chase Dinner
Arctic Excursions packages

Join me - https://GuideGunnar.no

And more Aurora Chases will be available when I have signed the contract with my two new professional guides and passionated photographers 😊

Please read more about GuideGunnar Guides here,
https://guidegunnar.no/ac/information-guidegunnar/guidegunnars-guides