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→
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→
As we knew the Oslo Marathon would be happening on Saturday our best option for visiting the city would be today. Whenever we visit a city, we nearly always elect to use the public transport systems available and as luck would have it again, immediately outside the campsite was the bus, number 32, which would take us to the metro connection at Røa in 6 minutes and into the city centre. Perfect!
We purchased the Oslo City Pass for 24 hours at a cost of NOK 395 each, which gave us free entry to most of the museums, free travel on all public transport and discounts on some other attractions, if we wanted. Downloading the pass made life so much simpler and we felt it would be worth the money, as our intention today was to have one of our long overdue ‘cultural’ days. Continue reading Oslo City Pass→
