Beberapa tahun yang lalu urang rumah dan saya pergi pakansi ke
Laponi, di lingkaran kutub utara nun di ujung utara negeri
Finlandia..
He..he asyik.
Bersama turis lain dari berbagai negara, kami berjalan kaki
selama berhari-hari dari satu perkampungan orang Lapon ke
perkampungan orang Lapon lain dan melihat peternakan kijang
(rain deer) orang Lapon.
Kami lewati steppa yang satu ke steppa yang lain.
Asyik, karena tidak ada polusi disana: udaranya bersih kayak
dipuncak Himalaya dan airnya juga bersih dan bisa diminum
langsung dari danau atau aliran sungai kecil..
Ketika itu, seperti di Alaska yang diceritakan di berita
dibawah ini, mata hari tidak kunjung terbenam.
Lalu saya tanya kepada guide kami yang oragn Lapon itu:
bagaimana orang Islam bisa hidup disini: kalau bulan ramadhan
jatuh di bulan Juni atau Juli kan mereka bakal mati kelaparan,
karena matahari tidak akan kunjung turun dan baru terbenam di
bulan September...
Seingat saya dia bengong aja..
Allahu Akbar.
On 10 May 05, at 16:15, hadjar_wish wrote:
Sun is up in Barrow, Alaska -- until August
BARROW, Alaska (AP) -- Say goodbye to darkness -- at least for a
while.
When the sun rose Tuesday over the continent's northernmost
community, it began a nearly three month stay. The last sunset of the
season occurred at 1:50 a.m. Tuesday and the sun rose again at 2:56
a.m.
"Then it will stay above the horizon until August 2, when the first
sunset will take place," said Gina Sturm of the National Weather
Service office in Barrow.
Barrow is about 330 miles above the Arctic Circle. In winter, the sun
sets in mid-November and the region is dark until late January.
Many in this town of about 4,500 welcome the transition to the
midnight sun.
"It's almost like coming out of hibernation," resident Diane Martin
said. "It brings us back to getting out and about."
Ron Boynton, who's been in Barrow 23 years, has had to figure out how
to get enough sleep during the unrelenting daylight.
"So we all learn to adapt during the years, and each develop our own
little tricks," he said.
"Put foil on your bedroom windows, etcetera, but then if you have to
get up during the night to go to the bathroom or something ... you
get the full sunlight coming in, and it can be hard to get back to
sleep.
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