Norwegian brand
These sinuous bays, cut into the land for tens and even hundreds of kilometers are everywhere - in Canada and in Chile, Russia and Scotland. However, to make their own national brand it was possible only to one country. Today the whole world calls it a miracle of nature only in Norwegian - fjords.
Since the aircraft are narrow and winding bays seem to be a network of blood vessels. They permeate the coast of Norway from the Norwegian Sea deep into dozens of kilometers. Geologists believe that the fjords have arisen when the tectonic plates changed the direction of motion to the opposite. That is why the fjord so deep - an average of 800 meters. During the Second World War, this feature allowed Germany to build on the shores of Norway, easy-submarine base. Today it is actively used by all major cruise lines. Along the coast of Norway cruising ships of all sizes: it is small luxury, at 300-400, before the courts, enclosing two or three thousand passengers - in the fjords easily enter even the largest cruise liners. Their owners have long made itineraries along the coasts of Norway, a separate area. Every major cruise company always has plans for the several summer routes.
Gateway to the kingdom of fjords in Norway, called the city of Bergen, the second largest in the country. Located in the west of Norway, on the North Sea coast, to 1299, he was the Norwegian capital. This determined his future fate: in the Middle Ages, he entered the merchant Hanseatic League and remains a major port until now. At some point, with the spacecraft, entering the harbor of Bergen, suddenly overlooking the old merchant of the city - Bruges, which is included in the book world cultural heritage by UNESCO. The same landscape half a century ago, who was born in Bergen, admiring the great Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg.
Longest fjord in Norway - Sognefjord length of 204 kilometers. (For example, the Suez Canal is shorter by 43 kilometers.) Depth of the fjord and man-made navigable arteries compared pointless: 1300 meters at the Sognefjord and 20 meters from the largest of the channels created by people. One of the most promoted tourism brands of Norway - Geiranger-Fjord. There are walking along the trail trolls, admire waterfalls, white strands which are rolled with a dark-gray rocky ledges. Effectively completes the picture of a cloud of spray over the water.
In two hours' drive from Geiranger Fjord lies the town of Olesund, one of the most interesting in the kingdom of Norway. At the beginning of XX century it was an ordinary wooden fishing town, which many in Norway. He changed after the terrible fire in 1904, which completely destroyed. New Ålesund, who rebuilt on the ashes, had nothing in common with its predecessor: the city reigned in modernist style or "Art Nouveau", which in Scandinavia called "Jugendstil". Now look at the bizarre towers and bright facades gathers mass of tourists.
Region Nordford named in honor of the largest fjord in these parts. It covers an area roughly equal to two St. Petersburg - 3,5 thousand square kilometers. It is clearly seen as a changing landscape. A few hours from the Atlantic coast into the country - and the mountains become higher, and the fjord all already. Visiting card of the region is located here and Glacier National Park Briksdal, where fans of skiing and snowboarding can go from late May to mid-July.