Monday, 12 March 2012

Norwegian Holidays:Feel on Top of the World With a Cruise to Norway

By James Kendrith


In this article, I will give you some tips on where to travel in the winter if you love to ski. I have picked out a total of 5 ski resorts in Norway that I believe you should consider during the planning of this year's winter holiday.

Voss, Voss is known as a ski resorts in Norway which has both Norwegian and foreign tourists who want to experience a challenging and beautiful scenery. Many visitors from Bergen also travel on day trips to Voss to use the resorts. Voss is located north-east in Hordaland county, about 1 hour and 15 minutes driving from Bergen. Centrally located along Vangsvatnet municipal center that goes under the name Vossevangen, where the council seat is located. Not far from here, (10 minutes from Vangen), you find Norway's major ski resorts called Bavallen, with 40 kilometers of groomed ski trails, cable car and 12 lifts with a total capacity for 12 000 persons per hour. Voss is also a mecca for extreme sports. The place has its own week called Ekstremsportvekaa, (usually the last week of June), where everything that happen is dedicated to extreme sports. So if you are interested in sports such as rafting, abseiling, fishing and hiking this is the place for you.

The cruise firm says that a trip to the nation, which is steeped in Viking history and full of cultural delights to suit all tastes, will allow you to see the "unequalled splendour of the Norwegian fjords" and the "captivating" capital city that is Oslo. Many of the nation's fjords are located to the west of the country, but you will come across these points of natural beauty in other parts of Norway too.

A close look into the Hanseatic Museum reveals perhaps the oldest preserved wooden building of the town. It was supposedly the house of a wealthy merchant furnished in 18th century style and its austere layout along with maze-like rooms drenched by the smell of fish leaves a lasting impression on the visitors mind. The ruins of the Bryggens Museum archaeologically dated to the 12th century houses artefacts and traditional costumes recreating life of the middle ages.

The Romanesque stone Church of St. Mary's is a beautiful masterpiece and the oldest surviving building which dates from the beginning of the 12th century. The old frescoes and a fabulous Baroque pulpit housed in the interiors is a chief attraction. To Norwegian Holidays ensure one gets an opportunity to benefit from these attractions one can make advance reservations in the different Bergen Norway hotels as per one's budget and style to suit one's taste.




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