My trip to the North Pole (August 20, 2019) was free time and sightseeing photography in the town of Longyearbyen. Longyearbyen is the Arctic capital of the Svalbard Group and is the northernmost city on Earth.

My Journey to the Arctic (August 20, 2019)

In the morning, Longyearbyen town is free to move around and take sightseeing photos. Longyearbyen, the Arctic capital of the Svalbard Group, is the northernmost city on Earth, with no summer and long winter. The coast of Svalbard is an inner bay, and in summer the wind is calm, and the elderly and children do not worry about seasickness. Due to the influence of the warm North Atlantic current, Svalbard has a very cool and pleasant temperature of 15°C during the day, despite the icebergs in summer!

With just over 1,800 inhabitants, the University of Svalbard is the northernmost institution of higher education on Earth. Adjacent Arctic research stations around the world, including China's Yellow River Station, New Ålesund, home to just 30 inhabitants, is the most densely populated town further north than Longyearbyen.

Located at latitude 74 ° ~ 81 ° north, Svalbard is the most wonderful area of the Arctic secret land, with pure blue Arctic sky, pure cold air, beautiful and steep terrain, unreachable polar location, and unique local animals and flowers. There are as many as 3000~3500 polar bears on the archipelago, which is a veritable "polar bear kingdom". In addition to cute polar bears, there are also seals, walruses, whales, reindeer and musk oxen, Arctic wolves, arctic foxes, minke whales and beluga whales unique to the Arctic. Svalbard's four colourful settlements, dotted with flowering cottages in the snow, seem to have inadvertently knocked over the palette, and anyone feels like they're in a fairytale country.

In the afternoon, board the Polar Discovery cruise ship and embark on an exciting 6-night, 7-day "Polar Bear Kingdom-Svalbard Cruise" to the sound of the horn of the setting sail.