During last week, it was a long holiday in Thailand. So we decided to take a trip to Norway. That's right Norway as the Norge in the arctic up there very north of the world. Thai Airway had just operate their flight direct from Bangkok.
Norway visa is rather easy to apply. However, we had well planned the trip and all supporting documents were ready as the embassy may asked for. It took them 2 full weeks to issue and re
turn our passport. So if you wish to go to this country, be prepare in advance. We had 6 days visa. That's rather short isn't it.
We left Suwaanabhume airport with 12:20AM flight and 11 hour traveling time before we arrived in Oslo. We then catch the SAS domestic from Oslo to Bergen, the UNESCO world heritage fisherman village tourist attraction. Bergen is the old capital of Norway before it change to Oslo. Flight time was about 50 minutes, but would take 6-7 hours by train.
We got to Bergen at 11:00AM. The hotel can not be checked in yet until 3:00PM. So we decided to walk around the town and visit the famous fish market. The fish market is very crowded most of them are wither tourists or the fish merchants. The live catch are sold in the market. We decided to have shrimp salad, salmon, fish & Chips, calamari, and the giant king crab. Pun Pun really enjoyed the king crab so much as he finished them all. Temperature in Bergen was sunny and really hot. I guess it was about 30 deg. Anyway, it's good for photo.
After the cruising of town, we then back to the hotel to freshen up before we came out
again to ride the cable car to the top of Bergen mountain for city scenic view. The weather was really nice. We see the whole town under the sun. We came back down at about 7:00PM for our first dinner. We went to a chinese restaurant located just right at the fish market. The meal cost us around 2,500 Baht. This is a normal price as almost every meal in Norway for us cost around that much, except when we lunched at a McDonald store that costed us around 2,000 Baht.
We went back to the hotel at about 9:00PM. The sun is still high. Just like 4:00PM in Thailand. I got up at midnight to see that the light still on in the street. Sun came down at about 1:00AM and back the sky again at about 3:00AM. If we had the chance to go up further north such as Nordcape, we will see the midnight sun.
The second day was a long day for us. We had reserved the "Norway in a nutshell" tour from NSB. The tour started at 7:45AM. We took the train to Myrday, get another famous scenic route train to Fram. Along the way to Fram, there's a very beautiful watrefall. At Fram, we took a walk around the place to see that nice little town and bought some very expensive souvenir. We then get back on th
e cruising boat to travel along the Fjord. It was really beautify. The sun was too strong. We all get back with tan. No one will beleive that we go so far to norther Europe just to get sun tan.
The third day of our trip we got back on the plane to Oslo again. In Oslo, we have a free afternoon, so we arrange a local sight seeing tour from Bat Service. The tour brought us to the old folk museum to see old norwegian houses and church. It also took us to the viking museum and the famous Vegelan park, where most of the nude sculpture created by Norwegian Sculptor "Gustav Vegelan". The park was very beautiful. The sculptures were all about the circle of life where human was born, grow, getting married, raised family, grow old, get sick and die.
The last day we had a few hour before the flight. We take a little OSlo on foot. We w
alked from the hotel to the central railway station, then to the new Oslo Opera House. We then head off to the Thai Airways counter. The flight was so full. At first we thought we might have to change the plan and stay behind. Finally there were no show of passengers, so the four of us can get back to Thailand safe and sound. Had to Thank the Thai Airways Station manager for helping us to find the seat back.
