Destination: Norway

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Itinerary: Adventurous Norway

If you’re on a mission to track down every last adventure listed here, you’ll cover almost 3000km just to reach the trailheads, to which you’ll need to add hiking time and distance – up to six weeks in total. More likely, you’ll pick and choose the activities which most appeal, enabling you to spend longer enjoying the ultimate rush or the most splendid solitude.



Norway’s wilderness regions are so vast that many start where people’s backyards end. Even Oslo, Norway’s sprawling capital, has ample hiking and cycling trails seemingly miles from anywhere but starting just beyond the last metro stop. Serious hikers won’t want to miss the trails into the Hardangervidda National Park or to the summit of Gausta (1883m) from Rjukan, where you can also indulge in a spot of rail-biking, bungee-jumping and more skiing. Sjoa may be small but its rapids attract white-water rafting and river-board enthusiasts and experts from across the globe, while Oppdal promises more rafting, not to mention hang-gliding and skiing.

The Jotunheimen National Park is the undoubted hiking capital of Norway with endless trails through Norway’s highest and most picturesque country, where you can also enjoy some summer skiing to cool off. Voss is one, big high-energy rush with parachuting, parasailing, rafting and bungee jumping. Other fine national parks where hiking off into the pristine wilderness is almost an imperative include: Rondane; Dovrefjell-Sunndalsfjella, home to musk ox and reindeer; Jostedalsbreen, with its vast icecap and the opportunity for kiting (glacier windsurfing on skis); Rago; Reisa; Saltfjellet-Svartisen; and Stabbursdalen, the world’s northernmost pine forest.       

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