So it’s approaching Christmas in Canada…what to do….I know,  go rent out a log cabin and a Mongolian Yurt in The Yukon with your friends and spend your evenings hunting for the Northern Lights! The first place we stayed in was a brand new log cabin at Wheaton River Cabins south of Whitehorse http://www.wheatonriver.net/tour/log-cabin/ The cabin was really nice and came with a wood burning stove and its own dog!:P Pan the dog was actually the cabin owners but he loved attention and came around all the time and was sooo cute.  The wood burning stove kept the cabin really toasty even when it was -30 degrees celsius outside.  While we were in the cabin we spent most of our days (which was only about 5 hours of daylight at that time of year) wandering around the woods and playing on frozen lakes. Our evenings generally consisted of making a fire and staying out all night to hopefully catch a glimmer of some northern lights.  We were so determined to see northern lights that we stayed out in temperatures that were cold enough to freeze my beer!

Although on Christmas Eve (and I don’t think there is a better way to spend Christmas Eve) we did go for a dog sledge ride which was amazing! The huskies are so awesome and really eager to for a ride!  Dog sledging on a frozen river that you have all to yourself is a pretty good way to spend any day let alone Christmas Eve!

We spent 7 nights in the cabin and after 6 nights of seeing no lights we had lost all hope.  So on the 7^th night we decided to not think about that and just build as big a fire as possible with all the remaining wood.  And low and behold, in the early hours, the lights came out to play!  They were so beautiful, different parts of the sky would light up green and fade away only for another part to light up! My friends captured an awesome timelapse which you can view on their blog http://www.nomadiclove.com/winter-in-the-yukon-eplic-northern-lights-and-long-nights-timelapse/

Our last 3 nights in the Yukon were spent in a Mongolian Yurt still just a little south of Whitehorse https://www.airbnb.co.uk/rooms/1151325 It was beautifully perched on the edge of a cliff with a view of the lake.  Again we had some more fun exploring the surroundings and playing on the frozen lake during daylight hours.  On Hogmanay we lit a fire around the fire pit and had some drinks around it.  A couple of girls that were staying in the cabin came out to join us and we also lit some Chinese lanterns with our hopes for the year at midnight.  Then we carried on drinking into the early hours:P Naturally me and Ryan were the last ones standing! The next day we woke up ‘slightly’ hung-over with a fresh layer of snow on the ground and somehow managed to drag our asses to the airport for our flight back.