Field book / chapter 4
Aurora villages, riverside cabins and bubble rooms in Lapland and Iceland.
Levi, Finland
Glass-roofed aurora cabins grouped in a village close to the Levi ski resort.
Each cabin has an aurora alarm, and husky, reindeer and snowmobile outings leave from the village.
Just outside the Levi resort in western Lapland, about fifteen minutes from Kittilä airport.
Inari, Finland
On the banks of the Juutua river in Inari, the hotel adds aurora cabins with glass roofs to its main building.
A riverside trail leads to waterfalls, and Sámi culture is close by in Inari village.
In Inari village, about 40 km north of Ivalo airport.
Southern Iceland
Also called the '5 million star hotel', Buubble is a set of transparent bubble rooms placed in a forest in the south of Iceland.
Guests sleep under the open sky inside the bubbles, with shared facilities in a nearby building.
On a farm forest in southern Iceland, about an hour and a half from Reykjavík; the exact location is given after booking.