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04/07/2024

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30/06/2024

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30/06/2024

The Maridalen High 5 is hiking tour which takes you to five of the nicest summit in Maridalen, North of Oslo. With over 20km and 890 m to ascent it rivals with Norway's most famous hikes. This hike is a good practice for famous hike like Besseggen, Kjerag, Dronningstien, or Glittertind, without leaving the borders of Oslo.

10/06/2024

If you want to do Besseggen with a guide, Beito Aktiv is organizing that this year.

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26/05/2024

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21/05/2024

Next Sunday (26th May @ 20:15 CET, 14:15 EST, 11:15 PST) we will have our second Q&A. If you need help with your Norway trip, or have any other questions then write them here in the comment, or join us live.
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03/05/2024

The Kistefos Museum is a an art in history museum located near Jevanker in the Hadeland region. The most iconic element the the Twist. And bridge conatining an art gallery with a twisted shape. The museum has several large art installation in the park, as well as diverse temporary exhibitions. There is also a large exhibition about the industrial history.
The art is of very high quality, that even non art interested people will have a good time. Even children will find the art intriguing and won't find it boring.
The museum is open during the summer season from May to October.
This is ideal destination of an Oslo daytrip.

01/04/2024

Gorživággi in Sami or Fossedalen in Norwegian, which means literally Waterfall Valley, is an inaccessible area in Nordland at the end of Tysfjord. The name comes from the countless waterfalls that line the valley, and the beauty of the area outshines any other place in Norway. Right after the fjord is the Langvatnet lake. At its end is a high cliff with the Mellomfossen waterfall. At the end of the valley is the Tysbre glacier. As with all places in Norway, the weather is variable.

To avoid mass tourism, access is strictly controlled. You can get there by boat from Drag fergekai. On the boat, the captain will speak to you in the most extreme Nordland dialect, and you will have to respond in kind.
If you do not, you will be left on the pier and banned from entering the valley for the rest of your life. All people in a group will be tested and you will not be invited to join.
To protect the valley, the rules are strict, even by Norwegian standards. Littering is punishable by a fine of 500000 NOK (50000€) or three years in prison. Taking a dump is forbidden and only allowed in three areas of the park. And flying a drone is punishable by 5 years in prison.

It's also strictly forbidden to share a picture on social media, so this post could be removed very quickly by the authorities.

13/03/2024

This winter was very cold and the Drammenfjord nearly completely froze. If it hadn't been for ship trafic it would have been more covered with ice.
See by drone from Tverråsen.

29/02/2024

See what to expect from a whale safari: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUbvYC1iRO8

07/01/2024

Check our latest video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j79Wy6fok5Y

(We used a lot of recycled footage, we never used before)

29/12/2023

Being interviewed about Norway for theTV channel regioTVplus.

26/11/2023

Check out our newest video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXC_oRWLP64

25/11/2023

Finally after a month with strong Northern lights, we could see some as it wasn't cloudy.

07/10/2023

Mosjøen is a town on Southern Nordland and known to be the middle of Norway. This is marked with the "Norge rundt" manhole cover in the main street. Other attraction is Sjøgate with many wooden house and Helgelandtrappa, the longest stone stair in the world with 5500 steps to a height of 880m meter.
If you are not trained, you will feel your legs for at least three weeks after doing the stairs.

04/10/2023

In one of the least touristic places in Norway there is the Madonna Path in Eggedal. This is a trail which leads to the top of a mountain where you will find a Madonna Statue. This is a very uncommon sight in Norway. The statue is located at the border of the Trillemarka Nature reserve.
The trail is easy and takes ca. 1h to the top and 50 min down. It can be done with as round tour.
It can only be reached by car. The nearest busstop is 2-3h hike away. The tour was done with .

21/09/2023

Polarcircle sentre is loacted on Satfjellet between Mo i Rana and Fauske. It was built with the construstion of the E6 in the 1990s.
Due to the nutation of the Earth axis the position of the polar circle varies over the millenia. It is currently moving North and is now 1 km away from the polar circle centre.
The polar circle will continue moving North for the next 8000 years, and will be just the South of the Lofoten then, before moving South again.

Around the centre people built a lot of cairns. It was tolerated for a long time, but because tourist destroyed some cultural sites for stones, it is now forbidden.
People still do it, but the employee of the centre will destroy a them.
As it still continues, it's just a mater of time until more severe punishement will be introduced.

19/09/2023

In Bodø there is the Norwegian Avaiation Museum (Norsk Luftfartsmuseum ). There you can see the story of the civil and military aviation. You will also find a F-16 in the exhibition.
The museum is located next to the airport.

12/09/2023

Å is the most Western village on the Lofoten island. It used to be a fishing village, but now there also many touyrist business.
In å there is also the Norwegian fishing village museum., which consists of several old buildings. In ine building there is a special exbihition about cod-liver oil, including tasting.

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06/09/2023

Kvalvika

03/09/2023

The view from Reinebringen on the Lofoten is Norway's most famous view, which covers many tourists guide. The mountain is approx. 500 m high. Previously the path up there was extremely bad and dangerous, so that it was even closed. Then a stair was built to the top. It has over 2200 steps, and it takes approx. 2h to get to the top.
If you never went up such a long stair, you are going to feel your legs for next two weeks.
The hike shall only be done when there is no snow and ice on the stairs. Winter ascents are very dangerous and should not be done without professional mountain guide.

01/09/2023

Henningsvær is a small village on the Lofoten island. It is mostly known for the football field which is located on a small island.
Unfourtenately it's now totally overrun by tourists.

30/08/2023

The Trollfjord is one of the most narrow fjords of Norway. The most narrow place is 100m wide which half the of the Nærøyfjord. With 2 km length is very short.
The fjord is only accesible by ship. There is a hike to it, but the starting point is also only reachable by boat. Therefor there will be plenty of sightseeing ships in fjord. We chose the company Lofoten Sea Service AS, M/S Øykongen for out tour.
Sea Eagles can be observered in and around the fjord.

26/08/2023

Svolvær is the main city of the Lofoten. It used to be a small fishing village with wooden houses, but many modern buildings were built along the waterfront. Feels like a bit like Aker Brygge now.
If you like a the business types there, it alternates between restaurant and adventure business offering fishing or safari tours.

24/08/2023

Hurtigruten Museum is located in Stokmarknes on the Vesterålen, where the original Hurtigrute company came from. The exclusive centre piece the M/S Finnmarken from 1956. Nearly all the ship can be visited. The machine room can be visited on a guided tour which is really recommended to do.

23/08/2023

Dronningruta - The queen route - is probably the most scenic hike in Northern Norway on the Vesterålen. For the style it could be called Besseggen of the North, as there is always something to see along the way (except it is a day like the one we were, the tops are shrouded in clouds). It was named the queen route after Queen Sonja did the hike.
We did the hike from Stø with first the mountain path and then the beach part, which in hindsight might not be the best, as you have to do down the steep ridge part. You can also do it from Nyksund, but it requires an additional ascent.
Its probably the only mountain hike which also include walking on the beach.
We hike well marked and takes around 6-7h. Because of the very steep places we have to give it our red difficult sign.

22/08/2023

Nyksund is an old fishing village. After it was abounded in the 1970s, revival started again in 1990s. Today there are several accommodations and restaurants. It is the like the Vesterålen's answer to Nusfjord. The Dronningsruta starts from here.

21/08/2023

Since it rained too much, we discovered the coastal train at Langenes just outside of Stø on the Vesterålen. The path is 4.2 km long and is mostly flat, but has some steep section. There are different sites along the path.
It takes a bit more than 2 h to do the hike if you hike back on the road. It gets our easy blue sign, as the steep places rule out a the green very sign.

20/08/2023

Just outside Andenes is Andøya Space. This is the place where Norway launches sounding rockets. Norway is actually the 4th country to have passed the Karman line and thus reached space after Germany, the USA and the Sowjetunion.
There is a small exhibition and small interactive installations. For space nerds you can book the guided tour the actually facilities. Unfourtenately we could not take any photos of them.
Further south a new launch site is being constructed, where orbital rockets will be launched. You can clearly see then tank farm and other installation. The mountains around will be provide probably one of the best viewpoints in the world to see rocket launches.