Travelogues Finnmark

On the Nordkapp peninsula, there is virtually no vegetation left. Only the roads stand out from the snow-covered landscape, swept by icy winds. In winter, Nordkapp can...

Since we were in Norway, we thought it would be a good opportunity to celebrate with some fresh fish. And so we had incredibly delicious salmon sandwiches, stockfish, a cream made...

The North Cape - tourist mecca for all Scandinavia travelers. Whether by caravan, tour bus, motorcycle, bicycle, or on foot, everyone who has taken the long journey north gathers...

What else is there to see between the last major "civilization center" Alta and the last point in Europe? A lot! Very much! A lot of nothing... Mongolian-looking hillsides covered...

When angels travel, even the North Cape has blue sky. After breakfast, there was a small briefing for those who will leave the ship in Kirkenes. The MS Finnmarken arrived in...

After two weeks our expedition reaches Hammerfest, the northernmost city in the world until 1998. Shops, public buildings and even the 'Royal and Ancient Polar Bear Society'...

Sleeping by the roadside and encountering locals and reindeer have slowly become part of our everyday life. A completely different fascinating encounter of this kind awaited us in...

Today at 9 am, we headed to our second milestone Kirkenes and took a bus to the airport. We reached our next stop Tromsø with a local Wideroe flight called Dase 8. Here, I was...

Yawn. After a very short two-hour night's rest in a waterfront parking bay far up north, where mosquitoes were swarming (Leon: ..like the Chinese at noon on Marienplatz in...

A week with a rental car through the cold north of Norway