Insight Guides: Norway
Language: English
Pages: 384
ISBN: 1780052103
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Insight Guide Norway is a comprehensive full-color guide to the culture, history, and people of this land of contrasts.
Be inspired by our Best of Norway section highlighting unmissable sights and experiences and lavish Photo Features on topics such as Norwegian folklore, culinary traditions, architecture and natural wonders. Our unrivaled coverage of history, landscape, and culture provides an essential introduction to Norway’s untamed land and contemporary life, to complement the in-depth coverage of the arts, activities, and modern culture.
A detailed Places section, with stunning travel photography and full-color maps, shows you where to go and what to do, from the world’s most spectacular fjords and stunning coastal scenery to historic old towns and the best in modern architecture – making sure you don’t miss anything.
A comprehensive Travel Tips section gives you all the travel advice you need to plan your trip, with our selective, independent reviews to guide you to the most authentic hotels and restaurants.
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1994. Corbis Amundsen knew about Captain Scott’s ambitions to reach the South Pole, but he himself was more concerned with reaching the North. Nevertheless, faced with the shattering disappointment of the news that Robert Peary had pipped him to the post in the north, in 1910 he secretly went south instead in Nansen’s old ship, Fram. But not until he reached Madeira did he let anyone know what his intentions were. Amundsen decided to dispense with all scientific work in his sprint to the South
lodge) and Drivstua to disgorge walkers with boots, poles and backpacks. The summit of Dovrefjell is at Hjerkinn, reputed to be the driest place in Norway, and for the rest of the way it is downhill across the Dovre National Park en route to Oppdal. Oppdal � [map] looks up towards the Dovre plateau, and to Trollheimen to the northwest. In winter it is a centre for skiing and in summer for walking, fishing, rafting and riding. The cable car takes walkers and skiers high above the village.
(for more information, click here). Rjukan is generally rather gloomy because the sun is nearly always blocked off by surrounding mountains. On top of those mountains, though, another world of vast vistas opens up, and it is said that on a good day it is possible to see one-sixth of Norway. You can take northern Europe’s oldest cable car, the Krossobanen (tel: 35 09 00 27; late June–late Aug 10am–8pm; times vary rest of the year; charge) from Krosso to the top of Gvepseborg at 860 metres
Hanseatic Museum Old Bergen Fish market Bergen Art Museum There’s always a sense of symmetry and order about a city built on hills. If it also stands on a peninsula and has a harbour at its heart, it is bound to be beautiful. Bergen, the capital of west Norway, ticks all these boxes. Built on seven hills, the city grew outwards from the coast and harbour in the quaintly named Puddefjord and spread across the steep slopes and over the bridges that link islands and headlands. Several
Vågsøy and Raudeberg is Silda, a tiny island for sea-anglers, divers and bird-watchers. It has only a handful of permanent inhabitants, no cars and, on an islet in the middle of the harbour, a restored fish-salting works that serves a feast of seafoods. On the nearby island of Selje � [map] are the medieval ruins of St Sunneva Monastery (Kloster). The northernmost tip is Vestkapp, where winds blow fiercely. From here, the closest land is the Shetland Isles off the north of Scotland. Inland along