Norway Attractions and Hotels

As a tourist you can choose one of the traditional or modern from these picturesque country attractions. If your special interest is the historical sites, geology, the flora or fauna, you will find incredible places to increase your knowledge while you visit Norway. This variety gives you a marvelous freedom to choose exactly the holiday you are looking for.

The landscape of East Norway is the principal attraction, in particular fjords of south-west and north (Nordkapp) which is a popular spot to observe at midnight the Sun in the middle of the summer. However, the principal cities, among them Oslo (the capital), Bergen and Trondheim, offer a good choice of museums, historical sites and architectural interest for the visitor. The mountainous interior countryside is ideal for those who are searching something new. In the winter, the sport is the reason to visit this country, the specialists recommend the period between May and September.

The population is lives in the principal centers of Norway. There are five definite areas: Southernmost Norway (Oslo including); Fjordland at south-west; mountains of Oppland and Hedmark; Central Norway; and Arctic North.

The national park of glacier of Ajostedal is a national park beautifully located between a fjord and a glacier known under the name of Jostedalsbreen. With more than 432 square kilometers, Jostedalsbreen is the largest glacier in Europe although there are many smaller glaciers separated in the entire park. Reaching 1,000 meters height, the frozen water falls are an impressive site just as the movements of the glacier are up to 1.5 meter per day. Take an exciting guided excursion to the glacier; walk and the ski in the national park or visit simply the center and the museum of the glacier of Jostedal.

Oslo, which celebrated its millennium in the year 2000, is the most populated zone of Norway, providing house for more than one tenth of inhabitants in only 700th of its total surface. For the industrial development of the country, the urban occupies only an eighth part of the surface, the rest consisting mainly of forests, islands in the fjord of Oslo, and lakes.

The city has a strong culture of arts, with a good choice of museums and galleries. The museums are the principal attraction of this city; the national gallery, the Norwegian museum of the applied arts museum; the museum of Thor Heyerdahl Kon-Tiki and the Norwegian folk museum, both on the island of Bygdøy in the west and the center of the city; the Viking embarks the museum; Museum of town of Oslo; and the museum of Norwegian houses, which indicates the history of the trade of the country during the Second World War. The museum of Ibsen was the house of this celebrity before his death in 1906.

Far from the immediate center of the city, the jumping complex of ski of Holmenkollen with its popular museum of the ski, just as the ruins of Cistercian monastery of the 12th century on Hovedøya; you can see them after a court voyage in boat from the port Oslo.

The principal architectural interest in Oslo concentrates on Kongelige Slott (royal palate), Stortinget (building of the Parliament), the cathedral and the castle of Åkershus. The voyages in boat on the fjord are affordable, and the shopping area is along Karl Johansgate Street, who runs from the central station to the royal palate. The guided excursions in bus allow you to make a tour of the city.