Cruises in Norway: Norwegian coast

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Sustainable tourism

Our trips are based on our goal of sustainable tourism, with eco-friendly travel that leaves as small an environmental footprint on nature as possible. We strive to provide an authentic and local experience, with public and environmentally friendly transport like trains, electrical cruise ferries, and buses. The cruise company we use seriously aims to protect the Norwegian coast and is a world leader in sustainable cruising. We use domestic airline companies that strive to reduce their CO₂ emissions, invest in green technology and work to achieve more sustainable travel.

About Hurtigruten

Hurtigruten offers a fascinating mixture of first-class passenger vessels and local working ships. In the home waters of the Norwegian coast, Hurtigruten has been part of the country’s very lifeline for over a century.

Calling at ports most never visited by commercial cruise liners, the ships deliver freight, post and passengers to remote communities, some of which are home to just a few hundred people. Sailing along this beautiful coastline, through magical fjords to enchanted islands, you enjoy a genuine, friendly and unpretentious voyage which is truly Norwegian.

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Norwegian Coast

According to National Geographic, the coast of Norway may be the most complex land edge on the planet. If you put Norway’s 63,000 miles of fjords, bays, and island shores into a single line, it would circle the planet two and a half times!

The larger fjords of western Norway cut a long way inland. Sognefjord is Norway’s longest fjord, stretching more than 200 kilometers inland.

The amazing Vega archipelago at the magic Helgeland coast is on the UNESCO natural site list, and the Arctic Lofoten islands offer the most dramatic & spectacular scenery.

Arctic Tromso

Tromso is surrounded by magic Arctic scenery, mountain peaks, islands and fjords. Tromso is a beautiful destination for the Midnight Sun during the summer months.
Tromso is ideally located in the middle of the Northern Lights zone – the perfect Northern Lights destination!

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The Norwegian Fjords

Norway’s vast coastline has an uncountable number of fjords, carved out by the ice during the Scandinavian Ice age. The main Norwegian fjords are located at the Western coast of Norway in the Fjord Norway area, cutting their way towards the inland of Norway.

The main fjords are:

• UNESCO Geirangerfjord
• Sognefjord
• Hardangerfjord
• Nordfjord
• UNESCO Naeroyfjord

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Northern Lights Cruise packages

Our Northern Lights Cruise packages include a cruise on an authentic Hurtigruten ship as well as adventurous activities & excursions:
You can stay in an exotic Snow hotel, a picturesque Aurora Gamme chalet, join a Dog sledge trip, Snow mobile safari & Reindeer sledge, visit Norway’s Northern Lights capital Tromso and Arctic Kirkenes, close to the Russian border. Read more.

Cruise on Sognefjord

Midnight sun on the Arctic coast

Winter cruise with Hurtigruten