Norway
About Bergen
Bergen huddles between seven mountains and the sea, a rain-washed wooden city that is the doorway to Norway's great fjords.
The old Hanseatic wharf of Bryggen leans its crooked timber gables over the harbour, a survivor of fires and centuries. A funicular climbs Mount Fløyen for the view, then the fjord boats leave for the dramatic Sognefjord and beyond.
It rains here almost constantly and the locals shrug it off, proud of their misty, hard-weather corner of the country.
Eat a bowl of creamy fish soup and a cinnamon skillingsbolle at the harbour market.
Get to Bergen
Round trip from Prague, any dates in November 2026.
Day trips from Bergen
- Long day
Nærøyfjord & Flåm
~2.5 h
, ~3.5 h 
, ~5.5 h 
The narrowest arm of the Sognefjord — a UNESCO corridor of kilometre-high walls and waterfalls — paired with the Flåm railway's vertiginous descent. Norway's signature day out, doable as a round trip from Bergen.
- Long day
Hardangerfjord & Vøringsfossen
~3 h to the fallsThe orchard fjord, white with fruit blossom above blue water in May, ending at Vøringsfossen — where the river free-falls 145 metres into a glacial canyon beneath a new skywalk bridge.
- Long day
Trolltunga
~3 h to the trailheadThe 'Troll's Tongue': a flat blade of rock jutting horizontally 700 metres above lake Ringedalsvatnet. A serious 20 km mountain hike of 10–12 hours — and one of Norway's defining photographs.
About Norway
Fjords, cabins and long light
Sheer fjords, coastal ferries and midnight sun above the Arctic Circle, in a country that goes outdoors regardless of the weather.
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