Longyearbyen Things to Do Tips by agalta

lots of things you can do!

it all depends on the season...
go to svalbard.net for all info on activities, expeditions, tour operators, news, ....
essential!
even if you go completely disorganized you can still join the several activities that are organized every day! like dog sledging, ice caving, mine exploring, ...

I went at the wrong time... not much to choose from! so I joined a snowmobile tour to Barentsburg, the russian settlement... SEE MY BARENTSBURG little PAGES!
BARENTSBURG

(here we had to cross a little river of melted snow... one of us got stuck in it! what an adventure!)

snowmobiles are unecological!

but sooo much fun!
croozin in the middle if nowhere !

but I'll never do it again! I promise!

YOU DO NOT NEED ANY SPECIAL CLOTHING or anything 'polar' ... when you go for a tour they always give you all the necessary things to keep you warm and safe: boots, gloves, goggles, balaclava, helmet and, most importantly, big black warm overalls that make you all look like a boyband like the New Kids On The Block ...

walking around town...

well, without a gun you aren't allowed to do anything else! (unless you join a trip/activity...)
yes! the biggest polar bear colony of the world resides on these islands....
just remember that if you see one you SHOULD NOT approach it to take pictures (like some silly tourists did the week before I went... they had to shoot the bear because of them! grrr!)