Things to do in Alta
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Alta Museum
Alta Museum is in Hjemmeluft, at the western end of town. The cliffs around it, a Unesco World Heritage site, are incised with around 5000 late–Stone Age carvings, dating from 6000 to 2000 years ago. As the sea level decreased after the last ice age, carvings were made at progressively lower heights. Themes include hunting scenes, fertility symbols, bears, moose, reindeer and crowded boats. The works have been highlighted with red-ochre paint (thought to have been the original colour) and are connected by 3km of boardwalks that start at the main building. The short loop (1.2km; allow around 45 minutes, including viewing time) is the most visited. You can also graft on a s…
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Restaurant Haldde
There’s even more quality from this excellent restaurant within Quality Hotel Vica. It relies almost entirely upon local ingredients in the preparation of choice dishes such as the Finnmark Platter of grouse, reindeer and elk, or its Flavour of Finnmark dessert of cloudberries and cowberry-blueberry sorbet within a nest of spun caramel.
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Alfa-Omega
As its name suggests, this place has two parts: Omega, its contemporary café, open 11am to midnight, serves salads, sandwiches, pastas and cakes. Alfa, a pleasant, casual bar, comes into its own from 8pm. There’s also a terrace, ideal for taking a little summer sunshine, overlooking Alta’s bleak central square.
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Barila
Barila is a chic, sassy little place that serves great coffee, good beer and exotic cocktails. You may be tempted by a ‘Blow Job’ (Nkr78).
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Han Steike
This steakhouse, all dark wood and grey flagstones, is the place if you’re after something red and raw.
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