Which countries to pair with your Northern Lights trip
How to combine your aurora trip with the rest of Europe without over packing your days or your budget.
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From our trip
Three nights chasing, and the days in between.
Everything an Indian traveller needs to plan a Tromsø or Rovaniemi trip: the Schengen visa from India, flights and airline points, where to stay, vegetarian food in the Arctic, and what it all costs in rupees. We did this trip in March 2026, four nights in Tromsø, and saw the lights on two of our three chase nights. Every guide below is what we actually did.
Most Northern Lights advice online is written for travellers flying from London or New York. It skips the things that actually decide an Indian traveller's trip: the Schengen visa process from India, finding vegetarian food in the Arctic, routing flights from Indian cities, and real budgets in rupees.
That's the gap we fill. We're Nikita and Ashutosh, and we plan our own trips obsessively so you don't have to.
We were asked to check a Northern Lights itinerary a travel agent had built for our parents, so we rebuilt the same trip ourselves, night for night. The agent was charging at least ₹1.5 lakh more per couple, before counting the commissions they were separately earning from the hotels and tour operators.
So we made every guide on this site free. You can plan the same trip yourself, in your own way, and put that money into the trip instead. More about why we do this →
Each of these is a full, practical guide based on our own trip and research. Start here, and if you still have questions, book a call with us.
How to combine your aurora trip with the rest of Europe without over packing your days or your budget.
Read guideThe layering system that actually kept us warm at −10°C, what to buy in India, and what to skip.
Read guideWhen a guided chase is worth it, when to go on your own, and why group size changes your night.
Read guideWhere to find veg meals in the Arctic, what to carry from India, and what the tours actually feed you.
Read guideWhale watching, husky sledding, the cable car, Sami culture and a fjord cruise, how to fill your days.
Read guideA month by month comparison, our two picks, and a full trip cost breakdown in ₹ from India, in one interactive guide.
Read guideExactly how we applied from India, documents, timeline, appointment tips and what to avoid.
Read guideThe routes, connections and airports that get you to Tromsø or Lapland, and how to find the cheapest one.
Read guideCentral hotels, aparthotels, Finnish sauna apartments and glass igloos, with hand-picked places to book in each.
Read guideStill working it out? Tell us about your trip →
These are not estimates. This is what the two of us paid, per person, in March 2026: ten days, four countries, nine hotel nights and three aurora chases. Your numbers will shift with the season and how early you book, but this gives you a real baseline instead of vague advice about Norway being expensive.
It is the trip we took in March 2026, written down in the order we did it. Twenty pages covering ten days across Italy, Switzerland, Norway and Austria, with what every single thing cost us and the links we booked through. Not a template, and not a list of ideas. Follow it as written and you have a finished trip.
Every guide above is free and always will be. These two are for when you want the work done with you, around your dates, your budget and your cards. The consultation starts free, so you see what we would do with your trip before you pay anything.
We are Nikita and Ashutosh, two travellers from India who plan our own trips obsessively and enjoy the puzzle of a good deal as much as the trip itself. Every trip here was planned around real leave, real budgets and the same constraints you have. This is where we write it all down.
From Jodhpur, and an in-house lawyer before this. She is the one who decides a trip is happening and then makes it happen: the route, the itinerary, what we will wear and what we will eat. She also runs the visa paperwork, which a lawyer's eye for detail makes far less painful, and she genuinely enjoys documentation. She left her legal career to build One Tab Getaways full time, and writes every guide here.
A strategy consultant by profession and a travel consultant by instinct. He turns the itinerary into confirmed bookings, usually well under the listed price: which card transfers to which airline, which route is cheapest, which hotel rate is hiding behind a different search. He got us business class to Europe for 45,000 points, and questions every rupee before it makes the budget.
More on how we plan, and why we started this, on our about page.