On her final night in Yellowknife, it happened.
She booked a last-minute Northern Lights viewing tour with the Aurora Borealis Experience, and from a frozen lake, framed by pristine boreal forest on the outskirts of Yellowknife, the lights came out.
As the glowing Aurora rippled across the clear black sky, Alexis thought about all she had been through with her rare diseases—”the hospital stays, the surgeries, doing my homework from my literal hospital bed a lot of times,” she says. “It was all of that, but I did it anyway and now I’m here and I made it through all of that and I’m here to see this amazing thing.”
“I shed a tear or two because it was so much leading up to that and it didn’t disappoint in the slightest. Not at all. It was even better than I ever could have imagined.”
Being the home of the best Northern Lights in the world is a pretty big claim, but we’ve got the facts to prove it. Before you come to see for yourself, read these 7 reasons why the NWT has the world’s best Aurora.
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