Ice hotels, aurora cabins and desert Christmases — extreme year-end trips worth filming together.
Skip the crowded markets this year. From aurora cabins to desert camps, these are the extreme December trips that make unforgettable videos — and even better memories.
North for the lights
A glass-roofed cabin above the Arctic Circle turns the sky into programming: aurora forecasts replace TV guides, and every clear night is a premiere. Book the new-moon week for the darkest skies.
Prefer heat? Desert camps run winter programs with cool nights, clear Milky Way views and sunrise dune shoots that grade themselves.
“Go where the weather is the event.”
Travel in a group, split the cabin cost, assign one person to camera duty nightly — and pack spare batteries; cold drains them fast.
