The main topic of the museum in Alta is the largest concentration of rock art in Northern Europe made by hunter- gatherers. The rock art comprises both rock carvings and rock paintings made from 7000 to 2000 years ago. The Alta Rock Art is an UNESCO World Heritage Site and the only prehistoric monument in …
As our main energy source for heating, hot water and cooking is LPG gas we are equipped with a fixed tank of 60 liters. We do not need any gas cylinders or gas bottles which are different in size and connector in most of the countries and therefore difficult to change and refill. Our LPG …
Hammerfest greeted us with nice weather and many interesting things to discover and to learn about like the Struve Geodetic Arc. The nights held another delight when the polar lights illuminated the sky. Already the night before we reached Hammerfest, we saw our first polar lights which was very exciting. We had been waiting already …
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Already the drive up along the coast, through the tunnel connecting the island of Magerøya with the mainland and finally over the barren plains to the North Cape was very fascinating. When we finally reached the cape, nobody was there and we had the famous globe to ourselves. At night, we were the only car …
From the Slettnes lighthouse we were now on our way to the North Cape. Before getting there we stopped near Lakselv at the Stabbursdalen National Park. After spending the night in the middle of the forest we went on a hike to a waterfall. The National Park is known for the northernmost pine forest of …
From the Varanger Fjord we were now on the way to the West, passing Tana bru and taking a little detour up North to the Nordkinn Peninsula. We crossed fascinating landscape until we reached Gamvik and shortly after the Slettnes lighthouse, which is the northernmost mainland lighthouse on Earth. The Nordkinn Peninsula is the northernmost part of mainland Europe, …
We went to explore the easternmost town in Norway, more to the east than Saint Petersburg or Istanbul. In Vardø we came past a fortress, 2 very interesting monuments, the church and ended up in Nordpol Kro – an old pub. A 3km long tunnel connects the island of Vardøya to the mainland. The tunnel reaches a depth of 88 metres below …
At the end of a 43km single track road which is only open in summer lies Hamningberg. The weather was good and we got spectacular views over the barren rock formations and tundra vegetation. Traditionally a fishing village, Hamningberg is one of very few places in all of Finnmark county that was not burned down by the retreating …
From Kirkenes we were travelling around the Varanger Fjord, which is about 100 kilometres long, emptying into the Barents Sea where its mouth is about 70 kilometres wide. The landscape in Varanger is a very different one from the Norwegian fjord-and-mountain thing as it doesn’t have the characteristics of a fjord carved by glaciers. The peninsula of …
There is a point on the map where the borders of Norway, Russia and Finland meet. No road is leading to this point, but from Norway it is possible to hike there. That sounded just like the right place to go! From Kirkenes, the most eastern town in Norway, just before the border to Russia, …
