Scandinavia visit

22/01/2020

The adventure that we were excited about the day when we had a thought of visiting this beautiful Nordic Countries is now going to happen.
First we had to take a flight from Oslo to Stavanger.. I remember there was so much rain when we reached Stavanger and I dropped my iphone and broke its screen too lol.. But luckily all photos were backed up..
This trip is also very special because I met three new friends originally on trip advisor when I had shared my post to hike on Trolltunga. We all met in Stavanger that night and didnt feel like meeting them for the first time..very friendly and crazy like me for hiking.. We rented a car in the morning and travel to Odda which took us more than 4 hours.
There have been many people asking about this perticular route on many websites and I was also curious too. Roads are pretty good and twice we had to board on vessel to cross the river. But it did offer us very very scenic route. There were lot of places we stopped and took photos in between. We reached Odda ate 9 PM and stayed at Odda Camping. Just be mindful that taking shower,bendlinen or towels were not included in the price. Also there was a grocerry store next to this and it was very convenient to buy and cook food since there were not that many options for dinner over there.
In the morning we cooked rice and noodles and some sandwiches and packed everything for Pulpit Rock. It was very easy one took us about about 5 hours and spent sometime on the summit. Route was mostly full of average size of rocks and lot of stairs. But once we reached to summit, it offered very stunning view. Few lakes on our way, astonishing view of actual Pulpit Rock and on the edge we dared to take many photos. Surely this one you shouldn't miss and was totally worth.

22/01/2020

13/03/2019

Day 16
After very short but sweet time spent in Bergen we are now heading towards the most sumptuous journey of "Norway in Nutshell tour".
Journey starts from Bergen if you choose from Bergen to Oslo as it runs vice versa.
Train was departed at 8.39 am and we reached at 10.27 PM in Oslo. Initially we felt it is going to be very tiring 14 hours trip but it ended up putting us in another breathtaking scenery and "never wish it to end" journey.
After first train ride we reached Voss. Voss is very beautiful place surrounded by mountains and very peaceful. We had enough time to look around and take some really nice photos.
We boarded on bus then to go to Gudvangen. But travel from Gudvangen to Flam in a boat was highlight of the day. Small vessel took us through the beautiful scenery of fjords and splendid view of ocean.
It was the time for us to take lots and lots of photos. It was very windy so make sure you dress up accordingly.
We arrived Flam at lunch time and here we booked another trip to Stegastein View point which wasn’t part of Norway in nutshell. I believe it costs 334 NOK per person but it offers the best view of valley of Flam and very calm Ocean.
First thing I noticed when I reached Flam was it is considered as number one tourist place according to Trip Advisor and sure it is. So much to see that my senses could not grasp enough such extent of beauty of this place.
We really loved it. Flam tourist centre offers locker room for your luggage so it is peace of mind to roam around. We boarded train to go to Oslo. This scenic train ride will take you to great waterfall and some very high altitude breaking through both sides full of snow.
We had enough space to put our luggage and train itself was more like vintage kind of look which had really nice interior and easy to relish your eyes with outside view. Throughout the whole trip from day 1 we pretty much had not a single mistake of how we planned except the one in Oslo where we reached at Oslo train station but I had booked hotel accommodation nearby airport not knowing the distance was an hour in train. So luckily booking.com was very helpful in giving full credit and give us accommodation nearby.

17/01/2019

Today we reached Bergen at 2.30pm. Had some fun taking some photos before we got off and sadly had to say goodbye to ship Trollfjord. We absolutely enjoyed the most on this ship and our memories of taking photos of Northern light will last forever with this ship. We now were on the land of Bergen, such a small town but has lively, many things to offer and surrounded by mountains and fjords including Sognefjord which is Norway's longest and steepest fjord. For those reasons this city stands out unique and not to forget it has very late night clubbing. Fløibanen railway ride is just beautiful to not miss it and view of the city during ride is magnificent. It goes for 8 minutes climbing by 300 meters to Mt Floyen but once you reach up then you will be just speechless with the view. Also there is a small shop where you can find some food. Have some more time to spend up on Mt Floyen because there is a nice walk that you will enjoy with breathtaking view of course About the actual town itself, you will not need any transportation as you can reach to any direction of this town by walk.

25/07/2018

Hello Everyone who either follows or has liked my page.. I am glad to see this organic growth. I have been brought to some exciting events coming in August by Federica Parise who works along with one of the American Drama group in bergen which has been my favourite city. This promotion has only the intention to let visitor to have an opportunity to attend such play, so I dont spam this beautiful page unless if there is really something useful for tourist. I am attaching few information here.

They perform English theatre all over the world and - during summer - they perform a lot in Scandinavia. They have next performances in Copenhagen, Kristianstad, Stockholm and Bergen.

As part of their annual Castle Tour, MACBETH by William Shakespeare will be performed, more info about each show are attached.
Please visit more information on www.adg-europe.com.
and https://en.visitbergen.com/whats-on/macbeth-p4344163.
Next even is on 20th August this year in Bergen.

24/06/2018

Here I have received a link from one of this page's follower and with his given permission I would like to take this opportunity to show very beautiful Stockholm in winter..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjhdoNEf3Qg&feature=youtu.be

This page is specially for those people who may think of Central or Southern Europe only offers the best cities to visit. But should consider Scandinavia is totally unique and offers numerous natural landscapes and will leave your memories like you were in Heaven. Each of the Scandinavian countries have unique things to offer. Finland offers the view of thousands of lakes, best national park which is Oulanka Park and of course Aurora Borealis, so the Norway offers incredible fjords and best hiking options. Where as in Sweden specially Stockholm is more like city Venice and you will have the best experience of canal tours around the city..In Denmark you will enjoy the old living towns and shopping street Stroget in Copenhagen..Perticulary I did not see any Indian hahah in Finland and in Norway so highly recommend for them..

07/04/2018

Day 5:
Today We got off the cruise and explored Trondheim.. very beautiful city having famous Nidaros Cathedral which is world's northernmost cathedral. Photography inside cathedral is not allowed but it is very amazing piece of architecture. We boarded cruise and reached to Kristiansund. Here since I had done bit of research in advance.. something we did here which was very crazy.. We let the ship go without boarding on and had no idea how would we be able to catch it up on its next stop Molde.. that was very adventurous since were stranger in a city.. All we wanted to do is to drive on Atlantic Ocean Road known to be the world's most beautiful drive and voted as Engineering feat of the century in 2005. We though had to pay hefty cab price to travel about 80 kms. But it was really worth.. cab person was Magnus Gustad and he became our tourist guide as well. It was just outstainding experience...

31/05/2016

Scenic Trollfjord...

31/05/2016

Day 4:
Today we sailed distance between Bodo-Rorvik and crossed the Arctic circle at 66°33’N. It is known as "Rite of Passage".
Ambience became more alive with the celebration out on deck. At the same time it brought all sweet emotions about when we entered into arctic circle in Finland on as Finland will remain my all time favorite country. We also then sailed through Seven Sisters mountain range. All mountains were between 900 to 1100 metres high and beautifully lined up as you will see in uploaded photos.

31/05/2016

Day 3:
Exploring further, Hurtigruten took us through Trollfjord which was quite uncertain to visit due to weather forecast. But luckily, we made it to see extremely beautiful steep-sided mountains with its narrow entrance. The name is derived from troll, which stands on many local myths. Large vessel with its similar name Trollfjord sailed us through maximum 800 metres widened space along with maximum 1100 steep-sided mountains. View was very scenic and incredible hard to grab all looks of it. It still had last year's snow on it. We then sailed to Bodo which was our next stop. All photos are in surrounding of Trollfjord.