Bergen & the Southwestern Fjords
This spectacular region will dazzle your eyeballs with truly indescribable scenery.
This spectacular region will dazzle your eyeballs with truly indescribable scenery.
With several great cities and some wondrous natural terrain, you’ll be mighty pleased with yourself by undertaking an exploration of this huge territory that stretches on either side of the Artic Circle.
Hemmed by a ‘fjord’ and kilometres of woodland, Norway’s capital is an easy-going city with an eclectic architectural mix of old, new and just plain 1960s that is hard not to like.
Norway’s southern coastline has always drawn Norwegian tourists in summer droves.
Surrounded by seven hills and seven fjords, Bergen is a beautiful, charming city.
Most people come to Norway for the fjords, and go you should, but the high country of central Norway is an equally extraordinary place.
Along the jagged coast, deeply cut by forbidding fjords, you’ll find numerous isolated fishing villages; Alta with it’s StoneAge rock carvings; Kirkenes, a frontierlike town sharing a border with Russia; and Nordkapp, mainland Europe’s northmost...
Trondheim, Norway’s original capital, is nowadays the country’s third-largest city after Oslo and Bergen.
Simply put, Tromsø parties.
Vibrant Stavanger ends up being many travellers’ favourite city in Norway.
Svalbard is an assault on the senses.
The coastal town of Ålesund is, for many, just as beautiful as Bergen, if on a much smaller scale, and it’s certainly far less touristy.
The pure air in your lungs (let’s except the strong reek of fish in some of the small ports), daylight around the clock and summer’s infinite shades of green and yellow: Lofoten comes as a tonic.
Bodø, Nordland’s largest town, was founded in 1816 as a trade centre, then turned to fishing in 1860 during an especially lucrative herring boom.
Svalbard’s only town – indeed, only centre with more than a handful of inhabitants – Longyearbyen (literally the ‘LongYear Town’) is these days a base for tourism.
Kristiansand, Norway’s fifth-largest city, calls itself ‘Norway’s No.
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