{"id":1162,"date":"2015-02-19T00:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T00:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stg-basecampexplorer.kodework.com\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2026-01-09T06:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T06:49:13","slug":"sun-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-basecampexplorer.kwrk.in\/nb\/sun-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"SUN FESTIVAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sun festival \u2013 Solfestuke \u2013 is a week-long celebration for the first rays of sun in Longyearbyen after the long and dark polar night. On the 8th of March, when the sun peaks over the moutains for the first time, the whole village gathers at the old hospital stairs \u2013 the place where the sun shines first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The whole week around this special day is full of activity, especially for children, but all visitors are warmly welcome to join in the celebrations. The moment when locals see the sun for the first time in months is impossible to describe. You will be filled with feelings of freedom and of new beginnings. Everything seems brighter and you know you have, once more, beaten the dark season. The light spring is ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/basecampexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/basecamp_spitsbergen_longyearbyen-1000x667.jpg\" alt=\"Reisereportasje fra Svalbard med utflukter til Radio Isfjord, b\u00e5ten i isen i Tempelfjorden og Barentsburg. Daglig leder p\u00e5 Basecamp: Steinar Rorgermoen.\" class=\"wp-image-257\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/basecampexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/basecamp_spitsbergen_longyearbyen_2-1000x667.jpg\" alt=\"Reisereportasje fra Svalbard med utflukter til Radio Isfjord, b\u00e5ten i isen i Tempelfjorden og Barentsburg. &quot;Huset&quot; i Longyearbyen\" class=\"wp-image-259\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/basecampexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/basecamp_spitsbergen_longyearbyen_3-1000x1500.jpg\" alt=\"Reisereportasje fra Svalbard med utflukter til Radio Isfjord, b\u00e5ten i isen i Tempelfjorden og Barentsburg.\" class=\"wp-image-261\"\/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sun festival \u2013 Solfestuke \u2013 is a week-long celebration for the first rays of sun in Longyearbyen after the long and dark polar night. On the 8th of March, when the sun peaks over the moutains for the first time, the whole village gathers at the old hospital stairs \u2013 the place where the [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-spitsbergen"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-basecampexplorer.kwrk.in\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-basecampexplorer.kwrk.in\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-basecampexplorer.kwrk.in\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-basecampexplorer.kwrk.in\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-basecampexplorer.kwrk.in\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stg-basecampexplorer.kwrk.in\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1164,"href":"https:\/\/stg-basecampexplorer.kwrk.in\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions\/1164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-basecampexplorer.kwrk.in\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-basecampexplorer.kwrk.in\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-basecampexplorer.kwrk.in\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-basecampexplorer.kwrk.in\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}