Day 7 - Polaria (Tromsø aquarium) and Dog Sledding at Lyngen (Town to the North of Tromsø)

Today we woke up a bit late. I had set the alarm for PM instead of AM, opps. Good thing Lauren woke up in time. Our reindeer sledding had been cancelled in Tromsø due to bad weather but good thing we found another company that did dog sledding at Lyngen which is an area that's more inland, and that was for 5pm so we booked that and then went to Polaria, the aquarium here that's famous for its bearded seals.

Bearded seals can grow up to 350 kilos and consist of 60% muscle and 40% fat. They are apparently easier to train than dogs.

One of the trainers telling one of the seals (there were 2 of them both female) to go fetch.

Freaky fish!

We also watched a documentary on the king crab. Russia's trying to re-introduce it and Norway's trying to get rid of it. Funny.

Did you know ...?

Arctic prawns, they are much smaller in size than the ones in Australia and Singapore.  I've eaten lots of these in the past couple of weeks.

At 4pm we went back to the hotel to book our accomodation in London for tomorrow then at 5pm the tour van came to pick us up for the dog sledding. The weather was bad, you could not see anything outside the van!

We dog sled in snowing weather with nothing but head lamps, it was really hard to take photos and at times we had to push the dog sled in waist deep snow!

On the sled.

After sledding we had to remove the muzzle and place each dog back to its chain which is close to its kennel.

Dinner was in a Sami hut thingy where we had soup (potato, onion, carrots and reindeer meat) around a fire.

I also took some photos of Tromsø at night, we didn't get back till after 1am.

Today will be our last full day in Norway, tomorrow afternoon we will fly off to London for a day then back to Singapore.