Lights in the darkness photographing the aurora

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Sail Norway’s dramatic fjords high above the Arctic Circle and learn about the night sky on this small-ship cruise

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Set against an archipelago of forested isles and the waves of the Baltic Sea, the Finnish capital lives in harmony with nature — locals take artistic inspiration from their wild surrounds and warm up in cedar-lined saunas