I visted Svalbard during the middle of polar night one year. It was the first time in my life I didn't see the sun in a week. https://www.instagram.com/p/CWUCC

I visted Svalbard during the middle of polar night one year. It was the first time in my life I didn't see the sun in a week. https://www.instagram.com/p/CWUCCSHJpIg/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CWUCCSHJpIg/ It was nothing short of awesome, spectacular, majestic, and terrifying, all at the same time. The fact that within this town of <2000 people, everything went about just as normal, even without the sun -- with a couple of bars, restaurants, and a supermarket -- yet just outside the borders of this town, for a thousand kilometers in any direction there is practically nothing, just the raw, wild, unforgiving arctic. No roads, no cell reception, just nothing, just you and snow, and maybe some hungry polar bears. (And yes, you aren't allowed to leave the town without registering and carrying a rifle.)