The likelihood of seeing the Northern Lights is far greater at sea than on land, and in Norway’s high Arctic the aurora can be seen day and night during the polar winter. No wonder, then, that Norway ...

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Norway’s greatest claim to scenic fame is its deep and lush saltwater inlets. Visiting the country without seeing them is a travel crime. My grandparents came over on the boat from Norway, so I’m ...

For more than a century, Hurtigruten, formerly Kystruten Bergen-Kirkenes, has been Norway’s connection to the sea. Founded in ...

Occupying 766 square miles, Oslo Fjord attracts Oslo residents and tourists in droves, especially during the warmer months. Water vistas are available from many parts of the city, including popular ...

Norway was named the “World’s Happiest Country” for 2017 by the Sustainable Development Solution Network for the United Nations. What? Could an entire country of just over 5 million really be that ...

For centuries, it has called some of history’s greatest explorers—guys with names like Svavarsson, Peary and Amundsen—many of whom never made it back alive. Some froze, others starved. Which is why ...

HARDANGERSFJORD, NORWAY - Jørgen Wengaard steers around the rocky islands of a fjord, his boat cutting through the water’s still surface, sending ripples toward silent forested shores. But here in the ...