From fantastic fjords to the magical Northern Lights: Why Norway is a must-visit bucket-名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） 目的地

  • ?Norway 誇るs breathtaking scenery, sumptuous?cuisine and amazing 野性生物

By Katrina Conaglen

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Norway is a feast for the 注目する，もくろむs.?

Across the country are charming, chocolate-box houses, making up colourful cities and vibrant villages.?

But while these are 価値（がある） a visit, to truly experience Norway is to 降伏する your 注目する，もくろむs, 団体／死体 and soul to the glories that nature has to 申し込む／申し出, from rich-green forests and blinding-white 北極の landscapes to the jewel-blue shimmer of the fjords.

The 広大な／多数の／重要な outdoors suffuses so much of what is amazing about Norway - the breathtaking scenery, the sumptuous cuisine, and the fascinating 野性生物.

Here is why Norway needs to be your next holiday 目的地.?

Once-in-a-lifetime scenery??

Trolltunga (Troll?s Tongue) juts out precariously over Lake Ringedalsvatnet in Vestland County

Trolltunga (Troll’s Tongue) juts out precariously over Lake Ringedalsvatnet in Vestland 郡

Majestic: The Seven Sisters waterfall in?Geirangerfjord

Majestic: The Seven Sisters waterfall in?Geirangerfjord

If you thrill to a good 見解（をとる）, Norway 誇るs scenery that will make you want to burst into spontaneous 賞賛.?

(n)艦隊／(a)素早い of foot? 引き上げ（る） to the tip of the mythical Trolltunga?(Troll’s Tongue) - a staggering 激しく揺する 形式, jutting out precariously over Lake Ringedalsvatnet in Vestland 郡.

Or recline on a 巡航する through the canyons of?Geirangerfjord, where a photogenic canopy of waterfalls 宙返り／暴落する 負かす／撃墜する 山腹s. The misty mystique of three - The Seven Sisters, the Suitor and the Bridal 隠す - will stop you short.?

In the tiny village of Fl?m, you can climb 船内に a truly riveting train 旅行. This rollicking?鉄道 - one of the steepest in the world - 素早い行動s you through vertiginous 山腹s, 泡，激怒することing waterfalls, and through 20 tunnels,?stopping to take in sights such as the 738ft Kjosfossen waterfall.

This country has beauty 令状 larger than you can imagine.?

野性生物 you'd usually only see in a 文書の?

There are 3,000 polar bears on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard < /div>

There are 3,000 polar 耐えるs on the Norwegian 群島 of Svalbard

The fabulously fluffy Arctic fox

The fabulously fluffy 北極の fox

The Norwegian 群島 of Svalbard, a whisper away from the North 政治家, is a polar 耐える kingdom: 3,000 polar 耐えるs roam the island, far より数が多いing the number of human 居住（者）s.?

These 板材ing, curiously elegant creatures can be spotted on a boat trip through the fjords, or a winter snowmobiling or skiing 探検隊／遠征隊. If luck is on your 味方する, you may also 秘かに調査する a walrus, sedately splayed by the fjords outside Longyearbyen.

Or take a 鯨 safari - you might 秘かに調査する the mottled grey of an enormous sperm 鯨 違反ing the 渦巻くing waters, ありふれた in the north. Or you might see orcas, 猫背／ザトウ鯨s, or the (n)艦隊／(a)素早い flukes of a pod of playful イルカs.

その上の south, channel the spirit of 早期に Norwegian explorers by riding astride a sledge drawn by a dozen galloping huskies, an ideal vantage to take in the grandeur of the glistening white countryside.

From Troms?, Norway’s 北極の 資本／首都, take a guided 小旅行する to learn how to 跡をつける wild reindeer as the S?mi do. Hope to 秘かに調査する an 北極の fox with its fabulously fluffy white fur.

A light show you'll never forget?

The Northern Lights - aurora borealis - lighting up the night sky above?Troms?

The Northern Lights - aurora borealis - lighting up the night sky above?Troms?

It's one of Norway's strongest draws: the heart-stopping majesty of the Northern Lights - aurora borealis - waves of iridescent green light unfurling across the inky night sky, licked with spikes of fiery red.?

This year is 予報するd to be a 旗，新聞一面トップの大見出し／大々的に報道する year for aurora activity, 申し込む／申し出ing the best 適切な時期 to 秘かに調査する the Northern Lights for two １０年間s によれば 天文学者s.

The prime 位置／汚点／見つけ出すs to watch their undulating, shimmery dance? Troms? or Svalbard.

Fresh, fabulous food

Norway's jagged, jaw-dropping coastline is more than just a feast for the 注目する，もくろむs: it's the re ason the country has such fresh, fabulous cuisine.?

はっきりと 冷淡な water cultivates the flavour and texture of seafood caught daily by 地元の fishing communities - haddock and mackerel, mussels, oysters and scallops, shrimps and lobster.

Meltingly tender king crab is hoisted straight from the icy 海底 of the Northern coastline.?Skrei - cod - migrates thousands of miles from the north coast of Russia to a spawning ground off Norway's coast. Freshly fished, it's 会社／堅い yet succulent - you'll have no difficulty understanding why some ４半期/4分の1s consider it the best cod in the world.?

And the land-locked fare is just as delectable. Rich, 強健な elk sausages or?the hearty heft of wild reindeer, herded by the indigenous S?mi people, perfectly matched with the zing of lingonberry jam, 甘い brown goat's cheese, and mashed potato.?