Ålesund has a unique environment, shifting between mountains and coastline, with breathtaking natural landscapes making it ...

The fjords of Norway — all 1,000 of them — are majestic. That is the simplest, most straightforward way to put it. The long, narrow sea inlets are surrounded by dramatically steep cliffs ...

Norway's majestic fjords are famous for a reason. No other country in the world can match Norway when it comes to the breathtaking natural beauty of its legendary landscapes. Adding to the ...

Most towns have one or two main attractions — a beautiful mountain ... on the southwestern coast of Norway between two of the country’s biggest fjords, the Hardangerfjord and the Sognefjord.

Like other places with fjords, Norway's geographic location has put it in the path of many cycles of glaciation since the beginning of the Quaternary period, some 2.6 million years ago. The most ...

I stumble out into the night, walking off one the most memorable meals of my ... Stavanger is the springboard for Norway’s southern fjords, and the Norwegian Scenic Route Ryfylke offers an ...

According to Schroeder, the most beautiful places in Europe are sometimes the toughest to get to. Case in point: the Lofoten Islands, located above the Arctic Circle in Norway. Depending on which ...

The UK summer is unreliable at best, and if it wasn't sun, sea and sangria, I didn't want to know. But now, as we sweat through a potentially dangerous heatwave, I can think of nothing but the ...

Norway's western coastline is also a tectonic-plate boundary, where the continental crust meets ocean floor crust. "Where you get the most spectacular fjords is where the ice sheet flows off the ...