Rick Steves Snapshot Norway

by Rick Steves

Overview

With Rick Steves, Norway is yours to discover! This slim guide excerpted from Rick Steves Scandinavia includes:

• Rick's firsthand, up-to-date advice on Norway's best sights, restaurants, hotels, and more, plus tips to beat the crowds, skip the lines, and avoid tourist traps
• Top sights and local experiences: Wander through Viking history, and admire snowcapped mountains and mighty glaciers. Stroll through a lively fish market, and grab lunch and people-watch over a picnic at a scenic park. Enjoy a meal of savory cured fish or hearty local stew, and relax in a cozy fjordside hamlet
• Helpful maps and self-guided walking tours to keep you on track

With selective coverage and Rick's trusted insight into the best things to do and see, Rick Steves Snapshot Norway is truly a tour guide in your pocket.

Exploring beyond Norway? Pick up Rick Steves Scandinavia for comprehensive coverage, detailed itineraries, and essential planning information.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781641716277
Publisher:	Avalon Publishing
Publication date:	11/26/2024
Series:	Rick Steves' Travel Guides Series
Edition description:	6th ed.
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	4.50(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Since 1973, Rick Steves has spent about 100 days a year exploring Europe. His mission: to empower Americans to have European trips that are fun, affordable, and culturally broadening. Rick produces a best-selling guidebook series, a public television series, and a public radio show, and organizes small-group tours that take over 30,000 travelers to Europe annually. He does all of this with the help of more than 100 well-traveled staff members at Rick Steves’ Europe in Edmonds, WA (near Seattle). When not on the road, Rick is active in his church and with advocacy groups focused on economic and social justice, drug policy reform, and ending hunger. To recharge, Rick plays piano, relaxes at his family cabin in the Cascade Mountains, and spends time with his son Andy, daughter Jackie, grandsons Atlas and Dashel, and favorite travel partner Shelley. Find out more about Rick at RickSteves.com and on Facebook.

Connect with Rick:
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Twitter: @RickSteves
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Norway 4

Survival Phrases 10

Oslo 11

Norway in a Nutshell 96

Flåm 110

Aurland 119

Undredal 121

More on the Sognefjord 123

Balestrand 126

The Lustrafjord 138

Scenic Drives from the Sognefjord 148

Gudbrandsdal Valley & Jotunheimen Mountains 151

Lillehammer & the Gudbrandsdal Valley 152

Jotunheimen Mountains 156

Bergen 164

South Norway 206

Stavanger 207

The Setesdal Valley 217

Kristiansand 220

Practicalities 223

Money 223

Staying Connected 224

Sleeping 225

Eating 226

Transportation 227

Helpful Hints 228

Resources from Rick Steves 230

Additional Resources 230

How Was Your Trip? 230

Index 231

Editorial Reviews

"The country's foremost expert in European travel for Americans."—Forbes

"Steves is an absolute master at unlocking the hidden gems of the world's greatest cities, towns, and monuments."—USA Today

“Every country-specific travel guidebook from the Rick Steves publishing empire can be counted upon for clear organization, specificity and timeliness."—Society of American Travel Writers

"Pick the best accommodations and restaurants from Rick Steves…and a traveler searching for good values will seldom go wrong or be blindsided."—NBC News

"His guidebooks are approachable, silly, and even subtly provocative in their insistence that Americans show respect for the people and places they are visiting and not the other way around."—The New Yorker

"Travel, to Steves, is not some frivolous luxury—it is an engine for improving humankind, for connecting people and removing their prejudices, for knocking distant cultures together to make unlikely sparks of joy and insight. Given that millions of people have encountered the work of Steves over the last 40 years, on TV or online or in his guidebooks, and that they have carried those lessons to untold other millions of people, it is fair to say that his life’s work has had a real effect on the collective life of our planet."—The New York Times Magazine

"[Rick Steves] laces his guides with short and vivid histories and a scholar's appreciation for Renaissance art yet knows the best place to start an early tapas crawl in Madrid if you have kids. His clear, hand-drawn maps are Pentagon-worthy; his hints about how to go directly to the best stuff at the Uffizi, avoid the crowds at Versailles and save money everywhere are guilt-free."—TIME Magazine

"Steves is a walking, talking European encyclopedia who yearns to inspire Americans to venture 'beyond Orlando.'"—Forbes

“…he’s become the unofficial guide for entire generations of North American travelers, beloved for his earnest attitude and dad jeans."—Outside Magazine

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