The part of Norway no one goes to - Escaping to our northernmost mysterious county
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- Опубліковано 15 чер 2024
- This summer I travelled to the northernmost part of Norway. Our coldest, biggest, and most remote county: Finnmark. Where there is 24 hour sunlight in the summers as the sun never sets here.
I even got to spend some days in one of the northernmost villages in Norway, Berlevåg.
A rough, rugged and amazingly beautiful place that I am super excited to share with you in this video!
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I can't wait, it's lovely to see you back and with a beautiful happy smile.
Aww thank you for waiting. It's really nice to be back too
I've lived in Scotland my whole life I've seen the Highland Mountain Ranges and lochs almost every day, you fail to appreciate your surroundings when you live in such a great place your whole life because its normal
"domt til ild og bål" = "condemned to fire and flames" that must be an incredibly eerie place, with the waves and wind moving the fabric too... Chilling!
I lived in Finnmark for two years. It was magical, and the people were so friendly ❤❤
That must have been an experience
We are Brazilians and we went to Norway in 2018. It was a thrilling experience and we promised ourselves to return. Thanks for sharing that and congratulations for having such a lovely place on this planet!
Volta sempre. A minha esposa ta trabalhando em um traaler As vezes ela vou para Bjørnøya, Bear island. Fora da casa por 5 semanas, e volta 5 semanas em casa. Temos casamento no Rio de Janeiro. Grande festa na Barraca da Ana. Em frente da Ceasar Palace. Gosta muito o Rio de Janeireo. Temos saudade do Rio de Janeiro.
Blessings from Michigan USA. Your video came up today so when I seen your sincere beautiful smile I decided to tap your Chanel not knowing your show. Your film and music is so tender to behold. Thank You dear for sharing your Rock Beach too. I love rocks❤. I am new to your circle of fans. Nice to meet You’all. ❤️🙏🏽🌎
Thank you so much! Nice to have you join our little community
Hello, Maria! Oh wow! I think it's one of the most amazing videos I've watched! So inspiring, so interesting, and absorbing! Your voice and your storytelling are just beautiful. And of course, the landscapes are breathtaking and it was really possible to feel the power of the place you've visited.
Thank you so so much
And so poetic too.
@@Mariaandtheforest Love your videos from India hope to meet u once
I LOVED this. Much of it is similar to where I live in Newfoundland. I can relate to your feeling further north. That landscape and wildness hits deep in the soul, for me anyway. The stone that Bendik held up at 14:33 looks much like picasso stone. I am crazy for stones. Thanks for this wonderful experience.
Nydelig
Thank you so very much for sharing this wonderfully beautiful part of the world in your videos! ❤
Thank you for watching
This was genuinely one of the most refreshing videos I've watched in a long time (and trust me I watch a lot of nature videos). Your commentary throughout the whole video resonated with me so deeply. I live in a big city in India and I know exactly the special energy you're talking about when you go to a less crowded place, with vast open landscapes and the raw power of nature being demonstrated everywhere you look or turn 🪄♥️
It's profoundly healing and will forever remain so. Much respect and love 🙏🏼
Thank you for visiting my home region, Finnmark. I live in the bottom of the Porsanger fjord, were climate is a lot warmer and fauna more lush and green. The coast of Finnmark is very barren that is for sure 🙂 I'm of Sami and Kveni origin, our people have been here for God know how long. For me Finnmark is the only place where I could ever live. It's great to travel and see the world, but I will always go back to the barren land far north of the polar circle, to the midnight sun and the northern light.
If you ever come back to Finnmark, please visit the central and western parts as well, you will find many nice places 🙂
Thank you for watching too 😊. I can totally understand why you would not want to live anywhere else! And being both sami and kven you definitely have strong roots to the place as well. I will absolutely visit more places in the future. I have been to Kautokeino too and loved it.
What a delicious video! I enjoyed the views of the fishing village so much and hearing the clacking of the stones under the pull of the waves. That’s a nature sound I hadn’t heard before. It was wonderful seeing you, Maria!
So glad you liked it! I had never heard that sound either, really cool. Wonderful seeing you in the comments too :-)
This is what I love about youtube. Not the platform itself but the creative people using it.
So much of this looks like northern Canada and Newfoundland. Lots of love from Cape Breton Island Nova Scotia, Canada.
Thank you for taking me on this amazing trip to Northern Norway. It reminds me a lot of my country and how wild it can be the more Northern you venture. Blessings from Graham in Scotland 🏴🤝🇳🇴
This was genuinely one of the most refreshing videos I've watched in a long time 😀
Hello from North Carolina
Good to see you guys again
Hello! Same
Stunning landscapes everywhere. Thanks for taking us with you on your trip!
Thank you for watching! Nice to hang out a little in the live chat. I hope you get to go there eventually :-)
@@Mariaandtheforest Thanks a lot, it was nice to chat with you! I wasn't able to stay the whole time, but just rewatched the second half of it. I hope you're doing fine!
Thank you for this beautiful video!
Nice adventure into Norway's most remote region. As beautiful as Maria is, that region was just as beautiful!
What a beautiful video….thank you for sharing. I would never get to see this beautiful place, thank you again😊
This was such a Wonderful watch. I would dearly love to visit Norway 🇳🇴. I would feel so at home. This was so lovely of you to share this beautiful time in your life with us all. It just fills me with such Joy. Thank you Maria so much.
I am so glad you enjoyed it! I hope you get to see it some day
Excellent work Maria, as ever. Your narration is superb, and really brings the viewer on a journey through the landscape with you. While out of curiosity I have in the past looked at that part of the world on Google Street View, your video now brings it to life in a way I could never have imagined. Top quality viewing !
Thank you Mark
@@Mariaandtheforest Well maybe we're both a bit strange, each in our own way Maria !!
Anyway yes, I seem to have developed a bit of a fascination for border crossings (I have no idea why !....though possibly the novelty factor, given that living in an island nation we have no such land borders with other nations here), and I was searching up in that area out of curiosity to see what the Norway - Russia border crossing looks like, and indeed the area in general.
My Street View virtual "travels" have also taken me to Russia's border with North Korea among other places. The single characteristic the border crossings all have in common is how oddly unremarkable they look. They all seem such lonely and desolate places, rather than the triumphant gateways to proud nations I had imagined.
@@MarkGalbraithVideos Ah, thats interesting! The borders up here in Finnmark are strange places indeed! Bendik actually guarded the border to Russia and Finnland when he was in the military. Its not far from where we were in this video. He spent months sitting in a tower in the forest watching this desolate place 😅 . One foot across the border to Russia is a criminal offence so they have to watch out for tourists and hikers in general around that area.
@@Mariaandtheforest Gosh, I had no idea it would be a criminal offence. Just as well I only did it virtually on Street View !!
@@MarkGalbraithVideos Haha, yes thats the good thing about street view I guess 😆
Thank you for posting this wonderful video. It is not so simple to reach these far north territories and it was wonderful to experience these landscapes through your lens. I’ve made it as far north as Narvik and more recently to Lulea, but don’t think I will ever get any further north than that. Thanks for sharing this.
Wow, this is a really good video.
really well put together great angles, shots and narration.
This top notch content!
Thank you so much
Exceptional beauty captured with your camera! Thank you very much Maria for sharing your creativity and your journey!
What a great scenery ..i could smell the coffee and felt the rugged sand in my feet..especially with all that it happens in the world, the caos the pressure and distress Of ppl , economy , weather.. we all need a piece of heaven just to breathe..
Hei Maria, I enjoyed your video so much! It’s sooo beautiful, really a piece of art. I hope one day to visit that part of Norway. Thank you and keep up the good work! 😁👍🏽
Thank you so much Debby
I hated for this video to end! Such lovely country that I will never see in person, I feel blessed to have seen it through your eyes. Thanks for sharing it.
I am so glad I could share it with you
I so agree with you. It was a joy to watch.
I loved the sound of the tide pulling the rocks back to the sea.
It was wild!
Thank you for taking us along on this fascinating and beautiful journey with you 😊. I'm so glad you were able to keep your promise to yourself and wait until you felt inspired to pick up the camera again. It's so important not to force these things. Everyone who loves what you create will still be here with you ❤.
So glad you came along for the journey
@@Mariaandtheforest You both make a nice couple best wishes to u both love from India
What a truly truly magical place you shared with us🌾🌊🥹 Your voice is like no other and your voice over tells of your experiences with such passion. You have amazing talent, look forward to more from you🥰
So nice of you
Hi Maria. I live at the southern tip of Africa. I love Norway and I think it is such a beautiful country. This is the first video I discovered about Telemark and Finnmark. I was just settling in to enjoy this trip with you when you spoiled it for me with "mumbo jumbo". The sinful nature of man is on full display when they sacrifice humans to appease the "gods" . As a Christian I find such joy in the beauty of God's creation. And via my cellphone I am so blessed to go on all these wonderful journeys. Please keep on making videos about Norway since they bring MUCH JOY to your viewers. Thank you🌹
Thank you for the kindness and taking me with you!
This compilation of yours just sings to my heart - thank you, Maria
Norway has such beautiful landscapes. I will never have the opportunity to go to the beautiful contry in my life, thank you your video has opened my eye.
You can if you set your mind to it. Think about it, dream about it and make it happen if you really want to.
I've been 2 times (only southern Norway, up to almost Trøndheim) and the countries nature is unbelievable. Like walking around in a fairy tale land with amazingly diverse landscapes with mountains, fjords, forests, waterfalls everywhere. Pictures and video's are good but they can never convey the feeling of actually being there.
I've only been to Finnmark once for a day trip from Inari in Finnish Lapland, actually quite close to where you were in Bugøynes. It was winter and it was magical. Watching this really made me wanna go back. I've been missing the north for years, the last time I was in in Lapland was 2018. The north of Fennoscandia is just so special. Barren but gorgeous landscapes, the magical light in summer and in winter and definitely a special energy as well, spiritual or not.
My grandfather came to America from Vadso in the late 1800s. I've never been farther north than Tromso so thank you for this video!!
Wow, that is kind of wild to think about. How it must have been I mean. Glad you enjoyed it :-)
Very nice and informative about the northern part of Norway
As a Fellow Northerner, from The Yukon over in Canada.... I loved this meditative foray. Yes, Yes these arctic areas are so....
I've wondered about Norway's coasts and north and here you are, so generously navigating this for me. Haunting, raw beauty. I loved the caribou ..or raindeer eh... just milling around over yonder.
If you have a calling, come visit us here in the Yukon, as it's so accessible and just as remote and untouched. Come for 6 weeks and use Whitehorse as your home base as you can reach so much easily from here.
Take care.
Yukon has always sounded to me like a very interesting place! Thank you so much for the invitation
I felt happy seeing your face glowing with joy, dear Maria. I’m grateful you’ve shared with us such a precious journey. I would love to add more to describe my current feelings but at the same time I’m just- I feel speechless. I will pop up to these beautiful scenes every now and then to refresh my sense of joy ❤
Aww thank you. So nice to have people like you out there who wish to see me happy
Your explanation about why ‘someone was to blame’, rather than acknowledging the power and unpredictability of nature was something I’d never considered before. Hey, and why not blame a ‘witch’?
I think the latter comes from the insecurity of most men who are inherently terrified of the process of new life, and of (mostly) women’s intuition, i.e. of ‘knowing the unknown’.
Your film also made the intensity of mythology in spiritual beings in this part of the world, much more understandable.
Great storytelling, truly great!
Yes yes yes. I was thinking something along those lines too. The feminist writer Camille Paglia came to mind. Not a coincidence that most of the people that were burned as witches were women...
Really glad you liked the video
So glad to have you back, Maria. Thank you for taking us along on this beautiful journey to Finnmark. Stunning video and storytelling, and so so worth the wait. Hope you're feeling refreshed and energized :)
I'm glad to be back
Maria, what an imaginary natural scenery, landscape, wilderness and on the top of all that your commentary is a cherry on the cake.
Bravo, Bravo and more Bravo!!!
Thank you so much ❤️
What a lovely way to spend these past minutes. Thank you for taking me someplace that I will not be able to go to but now I know that it’s there.
Beautiful ! Thank you Maria for giving us a glimpse of Finnmark.
I have a Discord buddy that is living in the northern part of Norway. It was very nice to see the beautiful nature in that part of the world. ❤😊
Thats so nice
A visually supported meditation on the concept of "beautiful" . I'd take one whole year to roam these spaces at ease.
So beautiful and poetic. I've been looking for a video like this for awhile
Stunning landscapes everywhere. Thanks for taking us with you on your trip!. Stunning landscapes everywhere. Thanks for taking us with you on your trip!.
What an incredible journey! 🌄🇳🇴
Exploring the hidden gem of Finnmark and experiencing 24-hour sunlight must have been truly surreal.
Thanks for taking us along on this adventure and welcome back! 🙌✨
It is truly a wild place
@@Mariaandtheforest Love your videos from India Maria
This is the first of your videos which I've seen, and it is truely remarkable. You live in the moment and notice things in a joyfully unique way. Refreshing and calming it definitely is. I've come to think of it as Nordic Zen...
Oh my goodness. The rocks… building blocks of my soul. I would have a hard time deciding which stone to bring back
It was tricky indeed! A very wonderful place
Thanks for sharing your summer adventure in northern Norway, skillfully done. I visited your beautiful country in summer of 1972 while young and single and explored the Sognefjord from Bergen aboard a commercial vessel delivering goods to communities along the fjord, took the steep Flam railway up to the Bergen-Oslo rail line, then rode the train from Oslo up to Andalsnes, and that's as far north as I was able to go due to time constraints. I've always had fond memories of my solo travels in Norway, and have never had the opportunity to return. You have such a beautiful country. Cheers from Lafayette, Louisiana, US.
Thank you Lafayette :-). It seems you got to see a lot while you were here! Åndalsnes is also so beautiful! I have only been there once, but Bendiks mother is from there. Thank you
This brings back some great memories back in the early nineties, my then girlfriend (and still good friend)lived in Kvalsund so I was able to spent some time in that area, Kirkeness, Vadso, Honningsvag, Nordkapp and Hammerfest. The landscape is majestic like the whole of Norway but the Northern part is completely different. I spent quite some time in different cabins while traveling on a snow mobile. Amazing sky in winter nights, unlimited stargazing. Anyway, love you guys travel adventures while you embrace nature at it’s deepest, I misssed it every day even though I have been in more than 130 countries and lived in a few Norway feels like home and I will go back.
That sounds amazing
Beautiful place
Really well put together video. Love your voice and the narration. Spectacular scenery !!!
My first time watching a video of yours. Beautiful camera work, and I truly love your calm voice, as well as the information you are sharing. Thank you!
Thank you Maria for a beautiful and inspiring video.
Cheers from Lille, France.
The sky is amazing ..it’s all so beautiful ..thank you for sharing
Not only did you capture the most profound beauty on the most minimal and grand scales, I believe you carry everything you experienced and found with you even after the experience is over and that you always will. What profoundly changes us gives us a platform to give and effect others in the same way we were. At the very least it inspires others to find their own experience and remind us all it’s out there no matter how we feel in life. I think also that you brought some interesting reflections on the nature of persecution and thank you for sharing that as well as every other moment from the most epic sweeping scenery to the tiniest rock. I think this kind of travel documentation suits everyone involved in capturing it and it is deeply and profoundly moving.
My father is from Honningsvåg. My grandfather (Bestefar) is buried in Honningsvåg. I have visited the town twice.
Thanks for this amazing video from the far north.I enjoyed watching it so much.I visit here many years ago,so it was very nice to remember the good times.Thanks again.
Oooh! Good to know this part there. I enjoy that landscape found there.
So harsh, so different, so impressive and so beautiful! Nature is fantastic! ❤
It is ♡
I'm following your exciting posts.
I just visited Norway in May 2023 , I made it to Oslo , Bergen , Flåm.
Your video about Bergen really inspired me
So glad you felt inspired
Eerily beautiful landscape and stunning videography. Thank you Maria.
Thank you
❤Thank you for sharing your Journey. The sites and sounds were Beautiful!💙🤍
I absolutely loved this video ❤ I love your perspective on the world - I can’t wait to see more :)
Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for such a wonderful video. 💜
This is lovely. The landscape is starkly, wildly beautiful, and wonderfully captured by you
Thank you for sharing it with us
Thank you so much for watching 😊
OMG Maria - this was absolutely stunning. Might be one of my videos that I've seen in a long while. In the middle of editing my next UA-cam video about an adventure I took recently and I couldn't have watched something that would inspire me more. Your storytelling is so powerful and moving and your awareness about a lot of aspects of your surroundings and experience are just, wow... So glad you gave yourself the time and space away from videos that you needed and so glad you felt inspired to share this journey with us. Sending love from my corner of the world to yours! 💛💛💛
Thank you so much Gabrielle
Thank you for this video. So beautiful. You’re a great narrator as well.
Thank you so much!
I just found you and so glad I did. Absolutely stunning and thank you for taking me to a place that I have wanted to visit. Cheers from Trondheim. ♥️🇧🇻
Just beautiful and inspiring to watch. Thank you
So glad you think so! Thank you :-)
I found this by chance and it brought me back to the last summer, when I experienced some time in Varanger and I absolutely loved this area. I have been to southern norway many many times, but now I only can imagine going back there again, and again, and again...
thank you for bringing this beauty to me today when I really needed something calm and wonderful
I feel you! I love Varanger too, there is something very special about it. Thank you so much too for watching and commenting
Most beautiful video of Norway
So much like NW Scotland. Captivating, thank you.
Truly beautiful. Excellent choice of rocks.
What an amazing land. Thank you for the sharing your journey.
Fascinating ...THX....
wonderfully poetic video, thank you, really enjoyed this, you bring northern Norway like a story.. it's really something!
Oh this was extraordinary! What a trip. I'm SO glad you did a video for this. It is quite amazing how people live just about everywhere. I always look places up on the map whenever you travel, so I'm glad that you mention each of the places. Luovtatt with those beautiful stones, and the amazing sound of the sea pulling at them, is gorgeous. Berlevag is amazing. So glad you got to meet your friend Elly there! I will look up her work. Wonderful that you had a break from filming, but also really fantastic for us that you gave us this one. Takk sa mykke, Maria! Ha det!
I am so thankful for this comment Janina. Thank you for being so excited for me and for the video. It really means a lot. Also really cool that you are looking it up on the map! I wanted to include a map in the video but its a bit tricky to figure out the copyright of it all.
Takk til deg også
@Mariaandtheforest Yes, I was thinking a map would be great but didn't think about the whole copyright problem! 🤦♀️Anyway, it was easy for me to look it up. It was definitely fantastic to see this video. The memorial for the witches was amazing! I had no idea that such a thing existed - and in such a place. Very powerful. It is great that your work takes you to places like this, and that you share it. How else would we get to see things like this in places that are not well travelled? That dinosaur/Viking ship sculpture was also amazing. And you are a real woman of the North swimming in that cold water. I think you have ice in your veins to be able to do that! 😊 There was so much to see here - daylight at 3am! And 4° when it was 30° farther south! Truly a special trip to be able to share - as are all your travel videos. You have a great talent. I even looked up the place where Elly was to see if maybe I could go there for an art residency. Lol. See you next time! 🙋♀️
@@janinafisher101 Yep, maybe if I have the time at some point I will draw my own map and use that!
I feel so grateful too that I get to see all these places, that I might not have seen otherwise. And I get to share them with you all here, which makes it even more fun. Haha, I feel like the cold swimming gets easier the more you do it, we are capable of so much!
So cool that you looked up Kvitbrakka, I hope you were able to find it. Maybe I should link it See you next time
@Mariaandtheforest Yes, you can draw a map in all that spare time you have! 😆 Good idea, though - as well as the link to Kvitbrakka. In Canada we call ourselves "tough Canadians" but you are a much tougher "Tough Norwegian!!!"
I hit LIKE and SUBSCRIBE just from that opening shot. Well done.
thank you
Thank you for sharing.
just beutiful, great storytelling, so inspired to visit north now
wow, that was a nice vacation. thanks for sharing
Rolling Stones…..we have a beach like this in Maine, USA. I love the sound when the water pulls away!
Thank you for posting this wonderful video and sharing your feelings and experiences, I was always fascinated by the norther remote parts of Scandinavia , thank you for giving us a window to look through
Me too, glad I got to go and to share it with other interested people like you
What a wonderful video 😊
Really nice video, it gives such calming vibes
Hi Maria! ❤ Beautiful landscapes. Have a wonderful week you both! 🫖☕❤️❤️
Thank you! You too
super video -well made ..thanks & God Bless - from Ireland
Wow! So glad I found you!
Thank you for sharing the journey! Here in the area of Tampa, Florida we love the ocean and beaches too, but I especially enjoyed how your time seemed to slow down as well.
Back at uni I was seeing a girl from Tromso. I remember being in her room, and noting the lovely B&W photos she had of her hometown on the walls. "That bridge looks nice," I said, pointing to one of the photos. "Yes, many people throw themselves off it in the winter," she replied. We broke up shortly after.
Thats dark for sure 🙈
Hey great video. I drove to Vadso and Vardo from the Uk a few years ago. Great experience. You brought back many happy memories. Thanks.
Beautiful amazing seeing places like this. Nature is beyond compare there. Thanks for sharing these places wonderful and mysterious nature’s art like no other.
Den här filmen är väldig fantastisk! Tack för att du gjorde den!
Takk selv, for at du så på den
such picturesque scenery
Excellent introductory remarks. Wonderful video.
Thank you kindly