The New York Times has named Oslo as one of the 46 most attractive travel destinations in the world in 2013, and the only Scandinavian city mentioned in the ranking.
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The British newspaper The Daily Mail raves about Oslo's cross-country ski opportunities in an article about the Norwegian capital's easily accessible outdoors.
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Expertly hidden around two and a half hours drive south of Oslo, is Kragerø, a small seaside town nestled in amongst one of the little fjords that fray the coast from Oslo to Vest-Agder. On discovering this little secret, you will quickly realize that there is a little more beneath the surface here. ..Read more...
The age of the Polar bear is coming to an end ! In 20 years, it will probably be extinct from the polar areas, according to a number of Scientists, and in 30 years, - maybe also from the Zoo's.
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Tourists travelling with Norwegian Hurtigruten's cruiseliner "Fram" can now add an overnight stay among penguins in the Antarctic as part of their itinerary.
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A record number of cruise ships have called at Norwegian harbours this year. So far, the increase is 23 per cent over last year, according to Cruise Norway.
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Wall Street Journal reporter J.S.Marcus has been on a trip to Tromsø in Northern Norway, —an island city of some 70,000 people, 350 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle, and about as far north as you can go in the world and still be in a city, he writes.
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Destination Røros, Norway has been awarded the prestigious 2012 Tourism for Tomorrow Award, in competition with the two other finalists, the Misool Eco Resort, Indonesia and Tanabe City Kumano Tourism Bureau, Japan.
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UT.no is a cooperation between The Norwegian Tourist Association and NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation). The site offers excellent tools for your outdoor activities. Plan your trip, search maps, get tips, read comments and more. Google is responsible for the translations.
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Welcome to one of Norways most solitary hotels. We make your stay here a very pleasant experience, so that you will find your way back here. Our hotel was originally built for as a prison in 1963 for for the lokal lawbreakers.
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The district of Luster is at the end of Sognefjorden. The world's longest fjord, Europe's largest continental glacier and Northern Europe's most Alpine mountain region, are all found in Luster.
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The Great Life Company consists of a collection of beautiful places - four on the mountains in South Norway, four in North Norway, and five in or around Oslo. Each place has its own unique expression, which occurs when beautiful nature meets houses designed with respect of local culture, tradition, and building standards.
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Story-telling and local food - Norwegian mountain farm presented in The New York Times, July 15, 2001 - French magazine «Grand Reportages» May 2002 showing how a contemporary fiddler learned to play from the waterfall troll «Fossegrimen»
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Sygard Grytting - one of Norway's oldest wooden hotels - owned by thesame family during the past 700 years. Around 1300 AD - more than three hundred years before the Pilgrim Fathers left Plymouth in southern England to establish the first European settlement in the "New World" - Sygard Grytting provided lodgings for medieval pilgrims on their way to the St Olaf Cathedral in Trondheim.
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Sandtorgholmen Hotel is idyllically located on a peninsula pointing into Tjeldsundet – the sound separating Hinnøya from the mainland. The hotel, which is built on an old trading post, is about 30 km south of Harstad, and about 28 km from Harstad/Narvik Airport Evenes.
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