Winter aurora-hunting has opened up a whole new tourist season in this town. Find out why Churchill, Manitoba is one of the World's Greatest Places of 2023
Alan Dyer—VW PICS/Universal Images Group/Getty Imagesf you’ve always dreamed of seeing the aurora borealis, you’re in luck this year, as solar activity heads toward a peak in its roughly 11-year cycle. One of the best spots to catch the northern lights is this remote Hudson Bay outpost, which sits just below the “auroral oval,” meaning the sky often dances to life in even just-fine conditions—over 300 nights a year.
But polar bears aren’t the only big white animals to make Churchill special: thousands of belugas enter these waters in the summer, and tour companies are finding new ways to introduce travelers to these famously vocal “canaries of the sea.
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