Travel

On December 4, the Seamen's Church in San Francisco and Nordmanns-forbundet are hosting an event celebrating that it is 100 years scince the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen arrived at the South Pole. Read more

We love the many miles of tracks that we can ski in Norway, and also the endless unmarked and untracked terrain for a really wild experience,” said Gary Neptune from Boulder, Colorado. He is one of 258 American members of Den Norske Turistforeningen – the Norwegian Trekking Association (NTA). Read more

Norway has much to offer tourists in the winter: snow, mountains, fjords and the unique culture of the Sámi people. We invited Audun Pettersen, one of the people most actively involved in Norway’s tourist industry, to tell us about some of the activities he would recommend. Read more

On November 13, the three Norwegian explorers Tormod Granheim, Matias Nordahl Carlsen, and Sturla Ellingvaag will hold a lecture at the Seamen's Church in New York about their expeditions and remarkable encounters all around the world. Read more

The exhibition From King to Obama will open at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway, on 25 September, 2009. Read more

The home of Peder Günth, whose life inspired Henrik Ibsen to write "Peer Gynt" in 1867, is now open to the public thanks to the 27-year-old who restored the estate. Read more