Stuff to do in Norway...

Resurrecting this thread as we are heading off next week and have very little booked! We are going to spend 2 nights in oslo then travel to stavanger and spend 4 nights up there then back to christiansand for a wedding and staying 2 nights.

I need recommendations for what to do around stavanger apart from the preachers rock. Would it be ok to stay the same place and travel each day or would it be better moving to a different hotel each night?

Also any recommendations for things to do in oslo?

We are so late sorting this - its a joke!
 
In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck was sighted by the Norwegian resistance steaming off the coast of Kristiansand. Find that spot!
 
ringo747 said:
Resurrecting this thread as we are heading off next week and have very little booked! We are going to spend 2 nights in oslo then travel to stavanger and spend 4 nights up there then back to christiansand for a wedding and staying 2 nights.

I need recommendations for what to do around stavanger apart from the preachers rock. Would it be ok to stay the same place and travel each day or would it be better moving to a different hotel each night?

Also any recommendations for things to do in oslo?

We are so late sorting this - its a joke!
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i doubt you could keep yourself occupied in stavanger for 4 days.
a day there and going to preikestolen is enough.

take the boat up to bergen for 2 nights. (or drive, if you have a car. although tolls (tunnels, bridges, ferries) will cost ~£100 there and back)
so much more to do in norway's 2nd city and the biggest student town than stavanger
 
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I came across something called norway in a nutshell which sounds pretty good. Train and boat tour up through fjords and gets you to bergen.

We will be coming from oslo to stavanger by train but it is a long 8 hour journey so not sure how good this would be as it loses us a full day. Once there then we have 3.5 days before we head back to Kristiansand. Its hard planning stuff for sure.
 
ringo747 said:
I came across something called norway in a nutshell which sounds pretty good. Train and boat tour up through fjords and gets you to bergen.

We will be coming from oslo to stavanger by train but it is a long 8 hour journey so not sure how good this would be as it loses us a full day. Once there then we have 3.5 days before we head back to Kristiansand. Its hard planning stuff for sure.
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you should take the train to bergen instead, oslo-bergen by train is worth it just for the journey itself.

then from bergen i'd go down to stavanger, and then on to kristiansand
 
Margaret said:
Burn down some churches, then you can get a feeling of what it was like during the early 90's!
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Can't believe it's been that long since Euronymous was murdered too! I remember getting the news whilst having a few pints in a pub before a gig, think it was 'Acid Reign'. The DJ started to play quite a few Mayhem tracks and the pit that was started was ****ing immense!
 
Spent a week diving some of the more northern fjords.

Beer is stupid expensive and so is food.

Last year a 4 pack of cider cost 19 quid!

Large beer in bergan was at best 5 quid, meals 35+.

Take the ferry, take your own beer! ;)
 
Prekkestollen is well worth going to see, also at about £20 from stavanger harbour you can get a sightseeing trip down the Lysefjord - which is pretty immense, they also pull into the get water from one of the fresh waterfalls and share it around.

The Oil Museum in Stavanger is pretty fun to have a wander around, although shouldn't take too long to do. Theres also the canning museum, which I haven't done, in the center of Stavanger.

If you can hire bikes theres a nice ~50 mile bike ride from a place called Taub (you get the ferry from the harbour) across to the Lysefjord (theres a small restaurant right on the corner of the fjord - you get some quite impressive views), and then back into stavanger.

To get to Bergen look to use the 'fast boat' from the fiskepier - it leaves early morning, gets you into Bergen in about 4 hours, then gives half a day to walk around Bergen exploring (make sure you go to the top of the funacular railway), then you get the boat back in the late afternoon.

But as everyone else is mentioning watch out for the expensive food/drink!
 
Very helpful thanks guys.

We will be leaving oslo hotel on monday and need to be in Kristiansand for friday evening so we have a few days. Definitely want to fit in Prekkestollen so probably heading to Stavanger on the monday on train, tuesday go on boat trip and then do the rest in Bergen.

Where does the funacular railway go?
 
mjt said:
you should take the train to bergen instead, oslo-bergen by train is worth it just for the journey itself.
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Agreed. If you have time, stop at Myrdal and take the Flåmsbana down to the fjord below too. Geirangerfjord is well worth the trip north if you have time. There are various routes you can take in both cases, some of them loops that avoid going through the same places twice. Boats along the fjords are good a way to get about while enjoying the scenery. Beware, though, that most of the buses, boats and trains in Norway revert to their normal non-tourist timetables in late August, so you may find it a little harder to get about.
 
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