Bergen appears in 5 of our itineraries across Scandinavia,
ranging from 7–14 days. Every one is private, and every one can be
reshaped around the time you want to spend here.
Bergen is enclosed by seven mountains — the Sju Fjell — and has been a trading city since the Hanseatic merchants established their wharf here in the 14th century. Bryggen: the row of timber-framed warehouses on the eastern quayside that are the surviving remnant of the Hanseatic trading post — UNESCO World Heritage, repeatedly rebuilt after fires, and now housing artisan shops and restaurants in the original footprint of the 14th-century settlement. The Bergen Fish Market at the harbour foot: one of the oldest markets in Norway, where the fish are laid out on ice by the same families who have been fishing these waters for generations — salmon, halibut, king crab, and the small shrimps that Bergen people eat by the bag. The Fløibanen funicular ascends 320 metres to Mount Fløyen in eight minutes — the view from the top takes in the city, all seven mountains, and the Byfjord on a clear day. Bergen is the rainiest city in Europe (with a recorded 239 rain days in one year) and is magnificent in rain as well as sun.
Bryggen — the 14th-century Hanseatic wharf, UNESCO World Heritage
Bergen Fish Market — salmon, king crab, and fjord shrimps
Fløibanen funicular — 320 metres to Mount Fløyen in 8 minutes
The morning in Bergen: the Bryggen Hanseatic Museum inside one of the original wharf buildings, the Fløibanen funicular to the top of Mount Fløyen, and the fish market. The flight from Bergen to Tromsø takes 1 hour 45 minutes and crosses the entire longitude of Norway — the Sunnfjord, Nordfjord, Romsdal, the Lofoten Islands visible to the west, and the Svartisen glacier before the Arctic coastline of Troms. Tromsø at 69°N: the largest city in the Norwegian High Arctic, built on an island in the Tromsø Sound between the mainland and the Kvaløya island. The Arctic Cathedral — the Ishavskatedralen — stands on the mainland across the Tromsøbrua bridge: a 1965 Brutalist building of triangular concrete panels that from a distance resembles a glacier and from close up is one of the most architecturally serious buildings in Norway.
Bergen Bryggen final morning
Flight Bergen to Tromsø — crossing Arctic Norway from above
Arctic Cathedral — the 1965 Brutalist glacier building
The morning in Bergen: the Fløibanen funicular to Mount Fløyen (320 metres), the Bryggen Hanseatic Museum, and the fish market. The flight from Bergen to Bodø takes two hours and crosses the full breadth of Norway — the fjords, the Lofoten Islands visible offshore, and the increasingly Arctic character of the landscape as the latitude climbs above 67°N. Bodø is the mainland gateway to the Lofoten Islands — the ferry from Bodø to Moskenes takes 3.5 hours across the open Norwegian Sea and arrives at the southern tip of the archipelago, where the mountains rise immediately from the quayside.
Bergen Fløibanen funicular — final view of the seven mountains
Flight Bergen to Bodø — across Arctic Norway
Bodø to Moskenes ferry — 3.5 hours across the Norwegian Sea
Bergen in the morning: the Bryggen Hanseatic Museum, the fish market, and the Kode art museums with the finest Munch collection outside Oslo. The flight from Bergen to Stockholm Arlanda takes 1 hour 45 minutes. Stockholm by evening: the city on fourteen islands at the Baltic gate, whose Gamla Stan medieval island is visible from the flight approach.
The Nærøyfjord UNESCO cruise — 250 metres wide, walls of 1,700 metres, waterfalls in snowmelt season. Gudvangen and the Stalheimskleiva road. Bergen by evening: Bryggen, the fish market, the Fløibanen funicular to Mount Fløyen.
Nærøyfjord cruise — the narrowest fjord in Europe
Stalheimskleiva — 13 hairpin bends to the panorama
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