The arctic circle area is fascinating. Now understand that we were there in July. You could still dig down to the permafrost then. The ice had only recently cleared off of Hudson Bay. The pine trees there look like bonsais and they are hundreds of years old. They get some berries in July but they are the tiniest things you have ever seen. People there have to be TOUGH let me tell you! Then you have the extremes of very long days, or very short ones. There are times that it never gets dark, and other times when it never gets light. The northern lights are absolutely beautiful there. Even in Churchill there is NOTHING fancy though they sure know how to keep things working. Now they depend a lot on tourism to just be able to live since the laws on exporting furs, etc. have gotten very extreme. The area is quite depressed in some ways.
I am very sure that you would enjoy going though! It really is like being in another world.
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Date: 2007-07-07 12:10 pm (UTC)I've never been anywhere as extreme as the arctic circle. The furthest from home I've been (culturally, that is) is Egypt.
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Date: 2007-07-07 02:10 pm (UTC)I am very sure that you would enjoy going though! It really is like being in another world.