This year marked my first time going to the Toronto Japanese Film Festival. Even though I was aware of the fest during previous years, none of the movies attracted me enough to make the 45 min drive (during rush hour nonetheless) to Toronto to watch any of the films. Luckily they had an amazing selection of movies this year, with most being relatively new, so we took advantage of the 5-movie pass and picked five films to watch. My first…
For our final day, we pretty much spent our time in transit. We only managed to catch a couple hours of sleep after returning from the aurora viewing, but we had no choice as we needed to catch our flight to Edmonton in the morning. In some ways I will miss this view from our hotel room. The airport in Yellowknife is pretty small, so it didn’t really take long to get checked in. Everyone pretty much had to wait…
Last full day in Yellowknife! After the slightly disappointing aurora viewing the night before, I dragged myself up from bed after a few hours of sleep and made breakfast. After grabbing all our gear, we got picked up at 12:30pm to begin our dogsled tour at Aurora Village. It was my first time doing a day tour with the company and it was definitely much more relaxing than the nighttime aurora viewings. We had a much smaller group, so it…
After coming back from our first night of aurora viewing, we pretty much slept through the morning and didn’t leave the hotel till noon. Luckily the temperature was warmer, so we didn’t freeze as much as we did the first day. We began our day touring the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre. It was a little tricky trying to navigate our way to the museum, partly cause our reference point (the lake) was completely frozen over. LOL. It was…
So getting to our sole purpose of our trip to the arctic – seeing the Northern Lights. We had booked our tour package with a company called Aurora Village weeks before we left. I think it’s the biggest company which runs these tours in Yellowknife. Their service, the facilities in their village, and the attentiveness of their guides were all excellent. Since it is Japanese run, you probably wouldn’t expect any less from them. We really didn’t know what to…