Malaysian tourist remembers the North ... and the Northern Lights in Kiruna, Sweden


The writer during his tour of the Icehotel in Kiruna.

Kiruna is Sweden’s northernmost town in Lapland, the country’s northernmost region. It is located around 200km past the Arctic Circle.

I remember visiting the place in 2013 with my former colleague Nik Faizal; we flew in from Stockholm, and the flight was about 90 minutes.

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