American Reacts to the Top 10 Places to Visit in Norway
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From what I have seen of Norway it seems like a genuinely wonderful place to live, but if you were to ask me or an average American where in Norway they would like to visit, most would be left struggling to name anywhere besides Oslo. That is why I am very excited to react and learn about the top 10 places to visit in Norway from an American's perspective. If you enjoy my reaction feel free to leave a like, comment, or subscribe for more videos like this!
Even though I'm Norwegian and have lived here all my life the scenery still takes my breath away sometimes. You don't tire off it.
Fullstendig enig! = Totally agree :)
Every sunset and sunrise ♥️
Me too
Agreed 😍
Hei er du også Norsk❤🇳🇴
Norway is a fantastic country. 🇳🇴🙂
Have visited several times ( including for the Eurovision Song Contest 🎵 in 2010 in Oslo) Have travelled from Oslo and Bergen to Tromsø in the North...everywhere stunning scenery .
I learnt basic Norwegian in 2020 during lockdown Just watched the NRK series Lykkeland so need to go to Stavanger now......
can't wait to go back to Norway..🇳🇴
Hilsen fra Wales 🏴
Greetings from Wales 🇳🇴🇺🇲
Welcome, I think Lofoten is the best place in Norway. But the weather better be sunny. Best wishes from Kristiansand, Norway
Du lærte deg Norsk?
Det er imponerende! 😁
@ IAN. Blackwood Hook me up if you coming back to Tromsø, summer or winter... Would love to show you around :)
@@Luredreier Takk , Norsk er en veldig find språk .🇳🇴🙂
@@FlyingFoxyPolarbear Takk
One day would love to go back to Tromsø...🙂🇳🇴
The family I have from the USA is most surprised by the rule "Allemannsretten" gives us the right to travel and stay in the countryside in Norway. The right is a free public good that is part of Norwegian cultural heritage.
Well as long as its not on private property ur good.
@@viking_nor Outside of built-up areas you're good to cross private property too. In fact putting up fences is illegal without special permission outside of regulated areas in order to maintain this "Allemannsretten". Camping in close range to buildings on private property is just about the only restriction. If for example you own a cabin in the woods with a sizeable plot of land, you don't actually have authority to deny someone camping on that property in tents or whatever unless you can reasonably claim they are causing a nuisance.
The one that shocked my U.S friends the most was that our income and spending is on public records.
@@viking_nor: Allemannsretten is specifically the right to roam and camp on private property. The limitation is you need to stay 400m / 1200ft from the nearest house and of course, you can't put up a tent in a strawberry field or something.
@@jeschinstad
You can’t camp on infields either, and if you’re camping on private property and are staying more than two nights, you have to ask the owner for promotion.
You mentioned it's like being in Lord of the Rings, which was shot in New Zealand. Norway and New Zealand are almost exact antipodes (opposite sides of earth) yet are so eerily similar.
I live in Sweden (closest neighbor to Norway) and we are not even close to the same nature. It's spectacular beautiful in Norway. You just have to go there one day :)
I get what u mean but still our nature is More hidden
Its beautiful but people forget and don’t know that fjords doesn’t only exist in Norway in that case Greenland better
@@starexgo3888 not really
Hi Tyler, Norway is all about hiking and outdoor life. One of the main reasons to live here.
No, you want find any flat areas in Norway. The closest we have to flat areas are in the county Østfold and Rogaland (Jæren). Regarding snow,, most of the country is covered in snow from December til march/april with northern Norway even longer winters, and south western Norway hardly gets snow in the lowland at all.
You might add parts of the mountain ranges Hardangervidda and Finnmarksvidda. Eastern Finnmark is also fairly flat all the way down to the sea, as far as I know.
@@ahkkariq7406 I don't think that Tyler was referring to highland plateaus...
We don't have much snow at the coast these days.
Here in Trøndelag the snow rarely stays more than a night or two at the coast, melting fast... :-/
Am from England and have lived in norway nearly forty years its the most beautiful country you would be proud to visit beautiful mountains fjords full of folklore tradision
I have visited Norway many times since I was 6 (43 now) because of my parents splitting and my dad remarried to a Norwegian. Norway has been used for many films, the Atlantic Road was used in the Bond film No Time to Die, then Pulpit rock or also known as Preikestolen which was used in the film Mission Impossible fallout with tom cruise. I have been up Pulpit rock and it was a stunning view.
Dont forget that Harry potter has scenes from "kylling bro", parts of star wars the empire strikes back was filmed in Finse, and big parts of Black widow was filmed in Sæbø
Thank you for showing interest in our country
We have seasonal winters, we don't have snow all year around. maybe some spots all the way north or on Svalbard of course but in general Norway aren't that cold we can take a swim in the ocean etc during summer without problems, because of the golf stream that runs from Mexico and circle around northern Europe. But we do have a very shifting weather pattern, it can rain, snow and be hot in one day and you got to be prepared for anything
Yeah, I would prefer to say that Norway has very contrasting temperature, rather than just saying it is plain cold. Most places you do get hot summers, as in plenty of beach weather in the high 20's celsius, sometimes crossing into the very low 30's. It's just that in that same place you might also well be looking at -20C and three feet of snow come winter, unless you're on the south coast, hehe.
On Strynfjellet and Folgefonna you can go skiing midsummers in a t-shirt and shorts 😃
I don't know where in Norway you live, you might be a tough guy for all I know..but I live outside Kirkenes and wouldn't recommend swimming in the barents sea even in a warm summer..
@@Olsby31 When people talk about something in general you don't take the extremes in to consideration. You can swim in the ocean during summer in most of Norway. Obviously not in the artic smarty pants
The Pulpit Rock, towards the end, was also in one of the last Mission Impossible movies with Tom Cruise.
I gotta say I love the enthusiasm! As a Norwegian that went road tripping in the western united states a couple of years ago I gotta say I saw some AMAZING nature in the US as well though. The Nature was definately different, but I've never seen anything like the Grand Canyon. That was a jawdropping view for me, and I've never seen anything like it. Also, I have to say parts of Yellowstone National Park actually reminded me a bit of Norway at times.
sant så sant, kjedelige naturen her vi er vant til :) men dog så eksotisk for ytlenninger
HEI JONAS!!
Trodde ikke du skulle være hær
Hi.
Trolltunga means "the trolls tounge". The name is from the formation on the rock. Looks like a huge tounge.
Trollstigen means "the trolls latter". A troll would use the road as a latter right, because it forms huge steps up the mountain.
Trollveggen means "the trolls wall". It has a famous sagn about a troll king daughters wedding party, the trolls build the wall and had the wedding party. They forgot about the sun coming up, so the whole wedding party of trolls turned to stone on the top of the wall. You can see the formation of huge figures on the top.
We do like our trolls :D
stige - ladder
Latter : Being the second of two persons or things mentioned. /
Near or nearer to the end. /
Further advanced in time or sequence; later.
6:00 The wooden structures you see while the video is paused are made for drying fish (mostly cod. (Think "bacalao")) 🙂
I am born and raised in Oslo , been all over the country over the years and I absolutely love my great country 🇧🇻❤️❤️❤️😊
Fun fact you probably didn't know.
In Mission Impossible Fallout, in the last fight scene in the movie, after the helicopters crash landed. That scene was filmed at Pulpit Rock in Norway.
I live close to Lysebotn, its in the video, and I never get tired of the nature. During the worst of the covid pandemic, when we weren't allowed to travel abroad, many Norwegians,myself included, traveled inland around in Norway. Visiting places never seen before. And still there are a lot of places I want to go to in Norway on my bucketlist. You can't see all of Norway in a few days or weeks. I haven't even seen a fracture in nearly 40 years.
Norway is full of music and happiness they have seasonal concerts there are thousands of people come from all over the world to enjoy this song right now Region sangers I threw their last year here Angelina Jordan Astar and concer water voice it was worth every penny from USA to Norway
"You just want to hike everything in Norway."
Norwegians are world-wide champions at the art of hiking. It's like a national hobby, to hike through the wilderness and into the mountains. The Norwegian explorer spirit has lasted for a thousand years, ever since the Vikings explored half the globe. We were the first to the North pole and the first to the South pole. Norwegian has a lot of things they can say "First!" for, as far exploration goes. Discovered North America hundreds of years before Columbus, too.
I’m Canadian & love Norway, I visited Oslo, it’s beautiful !!
Canada has no shortage of beauty herself. ❤️
Love your reactions to my beautiful country❤️
Yes, every centimeter if Norway looks insanely nice. Except for Drammen, that place is different.
Thank you for loving Norway. I love America too. Paradise valley with the Big Sky in Montana, Yellowstone and the amazing Royal Teton. I have been there four times. 🙂
I never get tired of this beautiful view I have outside my door😍😍
You have a few fjords in the USA as well, mostly in Alaska and Washington state. Hudson bay is the only one classified as a fjord on the east coast 👍😊
Funny that you mention lord of the rings. Tolkien was heavily influenced by Norwegian/Norse mythology, and I suspect, imagery and nature as well. A lot of names in LotR are taken straight out of old Norwegian texts, particularly the Edda poems if I recall correctly. They survive mainly through the text written down by an Icelandic man of Norwegian ancestry who brought all the myths to Iceland when his ancestors emigrated from Norway. These are the lands that inspired these myths more than 1000 years ago.
I loved how your instincts were instantly "yeah, I'd love to hike that!".
That's the attitude. _Respect to Americans for getting this._ (gonna write a Too Long; Didn't Read explanation about what I meant about that)
I've hiked around the mountains of Western Norway since a child, we always went there for summer vacation and then I moved there as an adult and have lived here for 8 years now. And I'm always amazed at only meeting local Norwegians in the various mountains, while seeing heeps of Dutch and German tourists driving around once you get back down to the valleys. The exceptions are the big and famous hikes, but those hikes are crowded with tourists and just not as enjoyable an experience. But I will say this, those hikes always have Americans. Americans are not afraid to get out there in nature, and they also have a lot of respect for nature.
It's just so frustrating to see all these tourists driving around in the valleys, knowing they're missing the amazing view from relatively easy hikes all around the mountains. Since people live so scattered in Norway, and hiking is a popular activity for locals, virtually all these mountains have trails to the top.
But then another aspect of this is seeing in the news here in Norway about people dying in nature. Falling off cliffs, getting stuck or lost in the brutal cold winter, taken by sudden waves during storms. It happens once or twice a year someone dies in nature, and having followed these news as a keen hiker for the last 30 years I've noticed a pattern; it's very seldom Norwegians who end up not respecting nature and making mistakes. But it's never Americans(and never Swedes) either, and I've met more Americans than any other nationality when hiking, perhaps except for Swedes. But Swedes and Americans do alright, when you hear about a tourist who made a mistake and had a fatal accident, it's three countries you'll hear; Britain, Denmark and the Netherlands. These people do not have wild nature, or does not respect or understand it.
Anyways, sorry for flaming these three amazing coutries and people, I love all those countries, genuinely among my favourite countries. But they lack respect for nature is still real. They have fear and stay away a lot of the times, which is sad, but fear does not stop mistakes if there's not any respect. I've seen a lot of intelligent and self-aware Americans like yourself Tyler, who can admit some the critical aspects of America and American culture(like when you said Americans are not health conscious when eating breakfast, small things like that which proves you're capable of reflection). which is a great thing, to be a reflective individual. Most young Americans today are so different from previous generations, so much more aware of the world. But I wanted you to know that I've noticed a lot of good aspects of Americans(of all generation). And respect and appreciation for wild nature is one of those things.
Something to be proud of, any Americans reading this. Maybe you guys lack the perspective to see when politicians are being controlled more by financial institutions than their voters, but you can understand and appreciate nature, I've notived this all my life. And I respect it a lot.
What is your facination with Norway of all places😅? Your whole channel is vids about Norway! Love it! I am Norwegian btw😝
If you go along the whole Norwegian coastline, you will see scenery like this , everywere... all the time. Welcome to my country
I am a Norwegian, loving my country and never get tired of our beautiful nature, but I have to warn you if you're going for a hike, our weather is not like this wideo, hi mountains close to the the sea generates a dramatic rapidly change in weather, it can shange frø warm sunny weather to rainfall and storm with in hours even minutes in high altitudes,
We got a lot flat area at the south-East parts of Norway, bordering Sweden and becoming more mountainous as you go deeper to Norway and then to jagged cliffs and fjords along the west.
*There are about 50,000 islands both surrounding the coast, inside fjords or lakes in Norway.
We got a lot of flat land all over Norway. It's just that so much of it is vertical. 😛
Norway has 239 057 islands 👍
Geiranger face the same tragedy. There is a large part of a mountain that has been slowly coming loose. This can cause a tsunami 262 feet in height.
Just keep in mind that all this is costal Norway. Once you get innland, there is farmland, forests and montains more like Wyoming (or so I guess by the look of photos)
I live in Norway, in a place betwen Senja and Lofoten. The landskape never gets old, and in summer the sun never goes down here.
Norway is extremly beautiful. Never gets boring.
When I was getting my license on motorcycle I drove the Atlantic Ocean Road as one of my final lessons before having my drivers test... Nothing beats driving this in the summer on a bike!
No, we don't get tired of our nature, the mountains and the fjord.
When I was in the millitary I often took the train between Oslo and Bergen (bergensbanen). And it is a beautiful trip and I loved traveling that route. There is even a realtime film made by the state television company of the whole 7 hours somewhere on youtube. The state tv channel made a show about it. (look up "slow tv" a weird Norwegian cultural quirk that I don't think you will find anywhere else)
I live in a particular beautiful part of Norway. an archipelago of over a 1000 islands, but four major ones, called Hvaler. The population here is 5000 in the winter, but rises to about 50 000 in the summer, when people with summer homes or cabins, mostly from Oslo, summer here. One of the natural features here is the drive from the mainland to the islands which, tho shorter, compares to the atlantic island road in this video, and to answer your question, you do get used to it. There are times, however, during that drive (or at other natural wonders on these islands) when there is a particularly beautiful sunset, sunrise or just a way the sun hits the ocean, a gentle breaking of the waves or a mood that you happen to be in where the view sets off a wonder, complete stillness or peace within you that (as i most norwegians, since we're not religious, wouldn't call divine) i can only call transcendent. Moments where everything seems perfect. And i feel grateful that i get to experience that in my life.
would be fun seeing you reacting to Norse Mythology... and all the troll references
All parts of Norway have their charm, even if not all places are as beautiful as the ones you saw here. Perhaps the most important reason for that is the light, which can turn the least interesting places into wonderland.
When you are surrounded by beautiful nature all your life, it goes without saying that you don't notice it in your daily life. But when the light changes and you get these magical moments that you could see in some of the pictures, the most blasé Norwegians also come to life. I have lived in several places, both in the north and south and in between, and it sure is a beautiful country. Then I have to say I have seen some spectacular videos from parts of America (US), too.
Just remeber if you are going hiking in norwegian mountains, especially on longer trips like Trolltunga, very sudden weather changes can happen. Even is it looks like the most beautiful summer day when you start hiking, it can be the complete opposite in the span of very short time. Good hiking gear is recommended in norwegian mountains all year, at least brought with you in your backpack.
Lots of beautiful places in USA too. Your national Parks, The state of Maine, the upper coast of Oregon is simply breathtaking. But I guess the travels from place to place takes time and maybe it's hard for a lot of people to get that time, when they hardly get a week off from work. Of course I think that my country is ONE of the most beautiful places on earth. And I'm proud of us keeping it (mostly) that way. But we didn't make the nature. The glaciers did :)
Great review Tylor :) I live just around the corner from 10:00 :) Lots of beautiful mountains to hike and fjords to swim in, but the water is mostly cold. Soon the winter arrives and all the landscape turns white. If you one day make it here, i can guide you to the mountains Bispen and Kongen from Trollstigen if you want. Funny hikes with some steep sections. There is also a lot of basejumpers in the area.
I liv in Norway. You should see southern Norway, different, but lots of waterfalls, lakes, islsnds and smaller mountains. I love your blog.
am a very very lucky dude... born in Ålesund (Alesund) and can see the fjords/sea every day also been living up north of Norway and see the borealis .. ofc it is very normal for me to see this scenery. BUT there so many time that i just stop my self and start looking around and thinking to my self that am happy to be alive in Norway
Hey, you do have some fantastic national parks with spectacular nature in America as well, so it’s not like you don’t have anything like this. But it’s more compact and possibly easier access to this nature everywhere in Norway.
Regarding whirlpools: Poe and Verne both wrote about Moskstraumen outside Lofoten in A Descent into the Maelström and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
My family has a cabin somewhere in the view at @17:40. It can only be reached by boat, and feels very disconnected from the rest of the world. It's awesome
U should se the "iconic norway" video from Natural light earth...
Fun fact about Norway, we can drink water from the faucet and just sip from it if we pass a river!
I live more south in an little town. You can try to guess😉😉😉
I’m from Senja, now living in Tromsø. If you ever come to Norway I’ll take you hiking on Segla ✌️
About the Loen vatnet, the disaster there happened not just once but twice, the first time the geologists said that from now on it is safe, it wasnt. in 1936 the Ramnefjell(ravens mountain) had yet another rock fall, this time the amount of rocks falling into the lake was so large it filled the lake. The communities along the lake were wiped out anew and several who had survived the first time died this time. There is a memorial plack placed along the road there and some information about the disasters too. If you think Trollstigen and Lyseboth are extreme roads Norway has a road which is even more extreme, it is called Aursjøvegen and it is not very well known, which is a good thing for it is absolutely horrific if you have a fear of heights. The first stretch goes up an almost vertical rock face and includes a tunnel with no lights.The rest though is not so bad, until it starts to head downwards again in Torbudalen. The road is narrow and twisting but the view is stunning. It is in Eikesdalen in the western part of the country and it is highly recommendable for it crosses some absolutely gorgeous mountain areas. There are several videos on UA-cam of people driving this road.
In Scandinavia, over the last 2.5 million years, there have been as many as 30 ice ages. The latest period stretched between 115,000 and 10,000 BC.
Transformed the landscape:
The glaciers were like enormous and slow-moving bulldozers and grinders, completely transforming the underlying rock formations.
The ice shaped the fjords, the mountain peaks, and the valleys - and moved and dropped vast amounts of rocks, stones, sand, and other residues.
For those who are observant, the ice age signs are everywhere in the landscape, even today.
As you mentioned, there were a lot of names starting with troll in the start there. That enriches the whole thing. So much folklore to hear about. I have been to all of the troll places and to Lofoten. My family is from around places in those areas. I got to experience it all as a kid and those memories are still with me. You never tire of how outright magical it all is. Now I live in Tønsberg (a place people might remember from the start of the 1st Captain America movie). Oldest city in Norway that to this day has open roads to visit viking ruins. The ruins has one tower that still remains, but it has been maintained, so the tower is not 100% viking anymore. But still, it gives me a special feeling to touch the remains. It seems that no matter where I live in this country, it is filled with amazing history, magical folklore and stunning scenery. So luckyyyy! :D
Amazing reaction. It was really fun hearing how stunned you were by all of what you saw.
Hiking up all those mountains will get you in great shape 😀
As a Norwegian, even I get awed by the nature here at times, for a while I drove transport in a small cargo van, and sometimes had to do express deliveries in various parts of Norway, and often ended up pulling over just to look at the view, one trip through the mountains I pulled over and walked out into the mountain a bit just to take a picture with my hand visible in the lower frame, I'd planned to put the Skyrim UI over it as it looked like something directly out of Skyrim. :P
Though I have to admit, despite living fairly close to both Trolltunga and Preikestolen (Pulpit rock) I've never been to either of them, though my sister has invited me to head to Preikestolen as she lives fairly close to it, I should finally take her up on it...
Yes, there's a ton of snow here. But as he said he was there mostly during the summer. Svalbard however has year round snow
I live in southern Norway on the coast, very beautiful but I went to Lofoten couple of years ago and that place is mindblowing. The vibe is like total peace. Go there in nice weather 😄
Thank you for sharing this great information. I think life is Norway is great..
At home it barely snows in the winter but when I travel to my cabin which is 2 hours away it usually snows between 1-2,5 meter snow in the winter.
Someone once called it nature on steroids.
the whirlpool saltstrømmen... you can go scubadiving... you will be adrift along the seafloor for a few hours moving with the fast currents..(you wont be able to resurface untill you have drifted out of the strong current. kinda dangerous.. but probably an experience.
This dude is kinda like pro at what he's doing too, Showing us the best angles and driving his drone skillfully. Some props to him too!
2:18
There's a *little* bit of flatland...
But only about 3% of Norway is suited for agriculture,and just 1% for grain...
So not much as you may imagine...
Prekastolen or pulpit rock is not a sheer drop onto the fjord, it is onto rocks beside the fjord. When I took some scouts to Stavanger, we hiked up to pulpit rock and the Norwegian scoutmasters advised against standing too close to the edge, they suggested slivering on your belly so you could peer over the edge and cited a German who was showing off to his girlfriend by doing a handstand near the edge and went over the edge. Needless to say he did not survive.
A cool fact that was pointed out as we went up the fjord underneath it by boat was that a farmer at the top of the mountain used to brew beer and sold it to a bar in the village on the shore of the fjord and to transport the beer he used a death slide to transfer the barrels using a brake rope attached to them. To test the rope he sent his wife down first. My wife was not impressed when I and the other male leaders roared with laughter at the thought of that.
7:18 Saltstraumen. Now you're VERY close to where I live :)
"One of the strongest currents in the world"? It's THE strongest. And the world's largest is just outside of Lofoten, it's called Moskenesstraumen.
I've been scubadiving in Saltstraumen a few times. Sounds extreme, but it isn't if you do it properly. The stream is "neutral" just when the tide turns. Probably the most diverse and varied diving site I've been to (tons of different fish and other lifeforms), and it's almost right outside my doorstep :)
You can go on speed boat trips there from Bodø, the nearest town/mini-city, but it's expensive as hell.
Btw, Trollstigen does NOT mean "troll's path", it means Troll's ladder.
"Ever heard of a place... I think it's called Norway? That was one of mine. I got an award for it." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
From many places in these mountains, people do base jumping, skydiving
We dont getctired of it, but we realize fast when we are travveling , that not much our own back yard. I coildnt emagine living a ålace without theese wievs and the shifting pf the seasons ( summer, fall, spring, winter) every season os beautiful here. And the smell of that ocean❤️
17:05 Pulpit rock was included in the last Mission; Impossible movie :)
@5:35, the place I grew up! 😊 Henningsvær! Love your videos! You really should visit Norway and especially Lofoten. 👍
I live pretty close too Trollstigen. Usally drive that road aboute 120 times every summer, same with the atlantic road. So those two veiws im used too and dont think any special aboute. But I've never been too northern norway, so all the veiws from senja, lofoten and other towns up there is astonishing.
it never gets old
If you have seen Frozen, its inspired by Norwegian nature and culture. Ice crystals, lutefisk (food), stave church, national costume (bunad),fjord, pattern, the names etc. Arendelle the place they live in is named from Arendal in Norway.
I think they also took some inspiration from Germany as the names are Norwegian/German. sven, christoff, elsa, anna, olaf.
The cliff preikestolen has been used in mission impossible, in two films I think. Tom cruise filmed there a few years back.
I am suprised you got 400 subscribers in 2 days. Here before this channel blows up
I NEVER get tired of seeing this….. 😃 🇳🇴
I live in Lofoten.. 😉 the videomaker was really lucky with the weather..😋
Thank you so much for reacting to my beautiful country of Norway. I agree that the nature is beautiful. Love from a new subscriber from Norway ❤️
I don't take notice to the mountains because I'm very used to driving past them almost every weekend to get to my cabin
10:29 no, we actually do alot of our vacations inside Norway, visit family from different parts of the country or just do a roadtrip. I am 35 and am from Eastside, i have traveled to the fjords on the west side about 25 times, if not a little bit more. I love traveling and seeing Norwegian landscapes and in 2020 I took my motorcycle through Trollstigen, Atlantic Ocean roads, Jotunheimen, through Lærdalstunnen and through the fjords of Sogn&fjordane and that week I was traveling on my bike i re-live in my head from time to time. Just writing about it makes me want to go back.... Again. But Vestfold where I live is also, of course, beautiful, but different parts of Norway gives you different scales and different type of views.
Like Oslo is beautiful, but come on... No one takes a vacation to Oslo to see beautiful nature, even though it's there too
Hi Tyler. You should react to these two videos about the modern Norway.
- Norway's Cruise Ship Tunnel Plan Explained
- Inside Norway's $47 Billion Floating Highway
You must see the Wings/ Fløyen
A very beautiful place in Norway \Bergen, the second largest city in Norway.
My favorite place in Norway is the Dovre mountains. I've spent so many summers there, but it was long time ago now. In the summer, the moss is so springy, it's like running on the worlds greatest trampoline and you just fly through the air. I've never cared much for running, but in those mountains, as a kid, I used to run for hours and hours at a time. It's not possible to explain what it's like to run with fifteen feet steps and just bounce off into the next. It's incredible.
our nature is old, but will never get old - we love it
yeah the wether in norway is seasonal, oktober to april/may is wintertime and lots of snow. summertime in northern norway the sun is up 24/7.:) im from and live in northern noway, almoast as far north as you get.:)
There are flats but inland and we love it. Look up the largest lake of Norway and its surroundings. My homeland.
As a Norwegian i like that u love norway. Sometimes i em shoked too. I have been some of this places and its amazing. But sometimes i em getting borred of seeding the nature
I'm Norwegian, and I'm jealous of Switzerland's nature.
I am from Geiranger one of the towns in the video. You get used to the view. Sometimes it does hit you how pretty it actually is, especially when you go for a hike or something.
After all this learning you definitely should visit Scandinavia. If you like nice scenery and hiking Norway have some awesome mountain cabins open to the public. It's the one thing I keep coming back for when living abroad.
Depending on how you classify islands, Norway has the most islands of any country in the world. Some lists say 55,000 while others say 239,057, dunno what's up with that, I'm guessing the list that says 55,000 doesn't count the smaller ones, perhaps? At any rate, it's at the very least top 3, alongside Sweden and Finland.
It's much the same deal with lakes. Standard counting parameters don't count very small lakes, I believe the norm is only counting those above 100,000 square meters. If you lowered that bar by any significant amount then Norway goes from having fewer lakes than both Sweden and Finland to leaving both in the dust and being only outdone by Canada, due to the mind-boggling amount of small mountain lakes that are just a little too small to count.
By the way, we have a whirlpool in the UK. It is in the Sound of Corryvreckan between the islands of Scarba and Jura off the west coast of Scotland.
I love to see you nerding over my country 😁
Greetings from Norway 🇧🇻
The northern lights and fjords are amazing
Man, i do photography and black metal here in Norway. And photography doesnt do this place justice. Its more beautiful irl and no camera can really capture the feeling or give you the fresh clean air. Its adventourous viking land. And its not as cold as say Finland because we have the golf stream hitting our westcoast :)
Thanks! 😊 Should have a link to the original video in the description
The Atlantic Road, Trollstigen, Trollveggen, and Geiranger fjord are in my area. There are hundreds of other beautiful places in Norway, but the spots in this movie are some of the most iconic places. All these places are covered with snow in the winter. In the fall, it gets many variables of colors, so it's hard to get tired of it.
Arendal where I'm from is almost as south as you can come in Norway at 58 latitude. That is the same as Peninsula, Alaska. So yes we have winters here. Winters last up to 6 months. Last year we got about 3ft of snow.
Americans don't understand how far north we are, unless our map is put on top on your continent. If you watch the last video from Robe Trotting why people in Denmark don't have AC at home, you will see a such map.
Another thing to note, we have not deadly animals here you can die from, unless you get attacked by bear or moose. Hurricans we don't have. But we do have autumn storms that can be hefty.
We got all 4 seasons, with changes in temps. A good summer day is 77F, our heat record 96F, so compared to other places it is not that hot. But most of us is called 77F and above hot.
We don't have AC in our houses as we don't need it most of the time. Summer is 3 months max. With only a week to a month of hot days.
As an norwegian I think Norway is stunning, never gets old, at least for me.
We are also one of the riches countrys in the world pr person, likewise living quality.
Healthcare is mostly free due high taxes. Doctor apointment etc you have to pay a small fee.
Many reasons to live here, we are not perfect, but compared to many places in there world, it's not far off.
Welcome here if you decide to come over sometime 🙂
i am only 9min in the video and you have already exploded my Norwegian ego :D thanks :)
i saw the northlight from my window in a small city a few weeks ago ,even with all the lights from the town xD