2024 TRØNDERLAG TOUR
TOUR
HIGHLIGHTS (Full details
on our tour page)
MAY 28 - JUNE 9, 2024 - 13 DAYS
TOUR INCLUDES:
- Custom Small Group Tour
- Stay in Oslo, Bergen, and Trondheim
- City tour with local guide in Oslo and Bergen
- 72-hour Oslo Pass with unlimited rides on public transportation in Oslo, plus entrance to more than 30 museums and attractions
- Possible tour of the NRK-building (The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation)
- Transfer between airport and hotel on arrival and departure
- 11 nights in hotels with breakfast
- 2 special 4-star hotels (Princess Märtha Louise will be married at one of these)
- 5 dinners
- 2 light evening meals (Hotel Bakeriet)
- 4 lunches
- Train ticket Oslo – Bergen
- Full size comfortable charter bus (even for our small group tour) as we travel from Bergen to Trondheim
- All ferries along our route
- Train ticket Voss – Myrdal – Flåm (Flåmsbana)
- Ferry across Sognefjord, the longest and deepest fjord in Norway
- Fjordcruise on UN World Heritage List Geirangerfjord
- Funicular(cable railway) ticket to Mount Fløien, one of Bergen's "city mountains"
- Entrance and tour of Austrått Fortress, Brekstad
- Tour of Nidaros Cathedral
Tour of Sverresborg Trøndelag Folk Museum
Oslo's Opera House - the new Munch Museum is nearby.
Directly across the street from our hotel
Stroll through Bergen's harbor area
Travel on the funicular(cable railway) to the top of Mount Fløien for fantastic views of the harbor area
Nidelven in Trondheim (viewed from Den Gamle Bybro)
YES - we will travel on Trollstigen!
We take a fjord cruise on UN World Heritage List Geirangerfjord
4- Star Kviknes Hotel - Balestrand, Norway
"The jewel of the Sognefjord"
4-Star Hotel Union - Geiranger, Norway
The Norway Building - Orkanger, Norway
Two of our members on this tour helped the project group who brought the building back to Norway from America and received special certificates during a ceremony inside the building during our 2019 tour.
Our Tours Are Special!
HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF PRIOR
TOURS
OUR 2019 TOUR:
One
major change for our 2019 tour was starting in Oslo.
Normally we start in Trondheim and then range out with
a series of day trips in addition to genealogy
research. We also have included multi-day trips
reaching above the arctic circle and through the
mountains to Røros.
Starting in Oslo increased the
appeal of the tour, especially for those who had never
been to Norway before. A 72 hour "Oslo pass" gave us
the opportunity to use public transportation for both
group and individual activities. Another highlight was
taking the train to Trondheim through Norway's
beautiful countryside. We
arrived in time for Olavsfestdagene (a church and
cultural festival) with 300 events, a medieval
market, and 800 international and Norwegian
artists a presenting a rich program of classical
music, folk, pop and jazz.
2019 Tour Group (Yes, it rains in Oslo)
OUR 2014 TOUR:
We had
been planning this special tour for years and just
had to be here for the celebration of the 200th
anniversary of the signing of the Norwegian
constitution AND marching in Trondheim's Syttende
Mai parade.
For our 2014
trip, we sent research requests to the Regional
Archives in advance and when we toured the archives,
each person's research materials were waiting for them
as we arrived at the facility.
We held this
trip one year early to coincide with 200th
anniversary of the signing of the Norwegian
constitution. We gained approval and marched in the
Syttende Mai parade where we were the third unit. The
"Children's Parade" which proceeded us had 20,000
children marching! We had a private
tour of Nidaros Cathedral and a private
performance on the restored Steinmeyer Organ
acknowledging our financial donation to aid in its
restoration. Another highlight was attending a special Ecumenical
service at Nidaros attended by the King & Queen,
the head of Parliament and other dignitaries.
During our time in Trøndelag we were interviewed by
Three different newspapers, primarily because of
advanced knowledge about our donation to Nidaros.
2014 Tour Group
OUR 2010 TOUR:
For our 2010 trip, we started in
Steinkjer and on to Inderøya along the
scenic road "Den Gyldne Omvei", known for a beautiful
landscape, farms, art shops end then on to Mo i Rana,
very close to the Arctic Circle.
After crossing the Arctic Circle we visited the
world's strongest maelstrom, Saltstraumen. We also visited Norway’s second largest
glacier, Svartisen and multiple islands. One
island, Vega, is on the Unesco World Heritage list. On
to Rørvik, back to Steinjker, Sticklestad where
St.Olav died in the year 1030. Finally back to
Trondheim and the Bakeriet with time in Trondheim
before we left.
2010 Tour Group
OUR 2005 TOUR:
One uniqueness of this tour was our tour guide. We hired the Principal of a Folkehøgskole (Norwegian Folk High School) who possessed extensive knowledge of the history of this year's area of travel. As part of the tour we had a meal at and toured his Folk High School. We visited a prison where the Nazi soldiers made the captives crawl from one end of the court yard to the other and walked through the woods where unmarked graves had simple markers placed to remember those who died and were buried there.
2005 Tour Group - At Austrått Fort. The triple turret
was for the German Kriegsmarine battleships but
instead of being installed on multiple levels in a
ship, it was installed in multiple levels in the
side of a cliff.
Image credit Arthur van Beveren - Own
work, CC BY-SA 4.0
The loading mechanism and elevators to take the shells
from the bottom of the cliffs to the guns on the top.