Ice grotto visits
This is a must-do-thing in Longyearbyen. it takes only three-four hours (maybe more, check variations in offers) and at NOK 590 it's good value for money.A weasel or dog sled takes you to the Longyear Glacier above Longyearbyen (other glaciers, too), and you enter the glacier from the surface into a maze of meltwater tunnels deep down in the glacier. You come up again on another place. It is a wonderful experience, most beutiful and surprising after seeing the windswept desolate glacier surface. Toward the end of the tour the guides provide some hot drinks and biscuits in a wider section of a meltwater tunnel.The tunnels are carved out during summers over many years, and because of the permafrost they remain a fairly fixed feature on parts of the glaciers and do not move much throughout the year either. This glacier type is called "cold" opposed to the mainland glaciers. The tours...
