Just off the main Sam Eydes Gate Road in Rjukan is an outdoor folklore museum, Tinn Museum, which is easy to spot as several of the delightful antiquarian buildings can be seen from the road.
Just as in Galicia, many of the buildings bore some similarities with the typical granaries, known as hórreos, built in wood or stone in Spain. Continue reading Tinn Museum
Gaustatoppen is a mountain here in Telemark which towers high above the town of Rjukan at an altitude of 1,883 metres. On a clear day you can see this majestic mountain in all its glory and at the summit it is said that you can see one sixth of Norway.
The Guastabanen is a tunnel railway system which will transport you to Gaustatoppen in a unique way. Initially you travel on a tramline through the mountain rock horizontally 850 metres, before changing onto the original funicular railway carriages for the ride up a 1050 metre tunnel, at a gradient of 39 degrees to your destination. Continue reading Gaustatoppen & Guastabanen
Today we visited Rjukan, a former industrial town that sits in a steep sided gorge. It is most famous for the saboteur activities against the German held Vemork heavy water factory during World War II, by The Heroes Of Telemark.
During the months of September to March the town receives no direct sunlight so they have constructed three mirrors that track the Sun and reflect light into the market square.
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