Experience Norway Fjords by Cruise

Enjoy a guided walking tour of the city. The places along your route include the Hanseatic Museum which is housed in the oldest and best preserved wooden buildings in Bergen. The interiors date from the 18th and 19th centuries. In times past, the Hanseatic merchants traded mainly with stockfish from Northern Norway and grain from the Baltic countries. Only German merchants were allowed to live at Bryggen during the period of the Hanseatic Office. The Hanseatics were unmarried and had to live in celibacy as long as they lived in the area. The tenements in the Bryggen area each consists of several smaller trade houses, each run by a merchant with a journeyman and apprentices. The Museum depicts what one of these trade houses would have been like in the last years of the German Office at Bryggen. Your tour will also include a visit to the local Fish market and you can take a funicular ride up to the top of Fløyen mountain (320 metres above sea level). The ride itself is spectacular and the views of Bergen only improve the closer you get to the top.

Today, you may enjoy a trip by coach and boat from the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Geiranger, to the pretty town of Alesund. A visit to Geiranger Fjord Centre is included.

Today, you may enjoy an enchanting tour that will take you to the medieval Nidaros Cathedral and the Ringve Museum of Musical History. Here, you will absorb a collection of some 2,000 musical instruments many housed in a beautiful manor home.

Board a boat south of Ørnes and sail through the narrow straits, passing small islands and skerries en route to the Svartisen Tourist Centre and a fantastic view of the glacier or travel by RIB-boats to witness the world's strongest tidal current, where millions of gallons of water are forced through the 492 ft wide strait. Overhead we hope to see sea eagles, Europe's largest predatory bird.

Today, you may explore the gateway to the Arctic on this tour which takes in the modern Arctic Cathedral, whose eastern wall is a fabulous strained glass window and visits Polaria, an iterpretive center about the Arctic.

Enjoy the magnificent sub-Arctic landscape as we cross the 71st parallel on our journey towards the North Cape, the northernmost point of the continent. Visit the North Cape Hall where you can see an impressive 180 degree panoramic film about Finnmark and the North Cape.Travel across the dramatic landscape of Mageroya Island to the tiny fishing village of Gjesvaer. Here you board a boat to Gjesvaerstappan Nature Reserve, an archipelago of islands that is home to three million nesting birds.Other optional excursions can be offered on request.

The vistas and sea life become more dramatic as you approach Kirkenes, just a few kilometres from the Russian border and the Sami communities of Northern Finland. Here you bid farewell to our northbound passengers and welcome those joining the southbound voyage.

Arrival in Kirkenes 09.45

Take a flight from Kirkenes to Olso (not included in the cost).

Enjoy a city sightseeing tour in the Norwegian capital, beautifully situated by the fjord. You will enjoy a magnificent view of Oslo from Holmenkollen Hill, with the famous ski kimps where the Winter Games were held in 1952. Among other high lights you will visit the Viking Ship Museum, with its three Viking vessels. The Vigeland's Park, one of the major Scandinavian cultural treasures, will welcome you with the sculptures of Gustav Vigeland, who dedicated his life to this Park. You will also pass by the Royal Palace and the main street, Karl Johan as well. (Entrance fee to Viking Ship Museum is included in tour cost)

Relax on a private Airport transfer with private vehicle and English speaking driver in Oslo.