The Glory of ‘AURORA BOREALIS’ Glint & Dance across the ‘Blue’– A Trip to Iceland’s Wondrous Dazzle of Light
Those fortunate to have witnessed its spectacular founts of light remark it as:- “A tumultuous glory of light breaking forth, streaming up the evening skies like a storm of diamonds and pearls imbued with the gorgeous hues of heaven.” The Aurora Borealis or Iceland’s wondrous light show is a fickle phenomenon. An entire week may pass without even a flicker. But then, BANG! The Northern Sky gets filled up with a scarcely conceivable immensity of Pale green, rose-pink. Transparent as a fragile fabric, but appearing in fiery crimson like the Fires of Hell at its bottom edge, the spectacle almost like a celestial lava lamp! - opines a professional photographer/traveller. Over the centuries, numerous myths and folklores have circulated about the Northern lights. The local Eskimos believed these lights to be spirits of whales, seals and caribou. Whereas the Algonquian Indian inhabitants of Canada, considered it to hold likeness with the massive fire from the Great...