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Last week a group of friends got an idea to visit the Lofoten Islands, quite a bit south of where I am here in Alta. 
So we boarded a cruise ship in Hammerfest called the Hurtigruten the coastal voyager. It took us a day and a half to get to Svalbær. That night we just hiked out of the town and found a beautiful space to set up a tent. It was in a valley by a lake with a hug waterfall flowing into it. The next morning our plan was to get the other islands with the beautiful beaches. So we hitched hiked, and happened to get picked up by a man who did tours by boats in the Trollfjord (which we went into with the boat. Extremely beautiful!) 
Anyways this man Harry drove us around all afternoon told us the local history and showed us landmarks. We drove through Stamsund and through Leknes, then dropped us off at this beautiful beach called Vik. We set up camp right on the beach, with giants mountains surrounding us, and they were covered with sheep! The sand was so white! And the color of the water was so bright! It felt like i was back in Hawaii, though the only difference i was wearing woolen long underwear!
The sun came out for a few minutes so we decided to go for a swim. It was crazy cold!! We had to make a huge fire to warm up. The next day we just hiked hoping to get to a surfer town call Unnstad. We i guess chose the worst route imaginable. It took us forever to reach the next town! All the hike was steep and rocky. (I now have terrible blisters) We finally got to this small grouping of houses to find out that it was not our destination, but we got picked up my a man that drove us straight to the beach of Unnstad. I guess it is world famous for its awesome surfing conditions. We even saw a few surfers! crazy people. 
We made friends with an old norsk man who was making a fire on the beach. He only spoke Norwegian but my friend speaks Swedish so we got by alright. Anyways he told us he was burning the remains of all the party's he had had that summer. He was real nice to us. He gave us firewood and let us come up to his house to fill up our water bottles. His cute little wife was making jam from berries they had around there house. She painted all these rocks in front of their house.
Then we got to see his party barn. It was in the hayloft. This guy had it filled with old norsk antiques, and a huge hand made wooden table, lots of reindeer hides, a piano. A very cool place! Since it was such a small town the only way out was to catch the school bus. So that was how we traveled! The bus dropped us off at the Viking Musesum in Borg, unfortunately it was closed for the season. But there was alot to see outside, they tried to portray how the vikings would have lived. There was all sorts of animals, a huge ship in the water, a black smiths shop etc. etc. When back in Svalbær we went to an ice bar called Magic Ice! That night we returned to Alta on the Hurtigruten .. then back to school.
So we boarded a cruise ship in Hammerfest called the Hurtigruten the coastal voyager. It took us a day and a half to get to Svalbær. That night we just hiked out of the town and found a beautiful space to set up a tent. It was in a valley by a lake with a hug waterfall flowing into it. The next morning our plan was to get the other islands with the beautiful beaches. So we hitched hiked, and happened to get picked up by a man who did tours by boats in the Trollfjord (which we went into with the boat. Extremely beautiful!) 
Anyways this man Harry drove us around all afternoon told us the local history and showed us landmarks. We drove through Stamsund and through Leknes, then dropped us off at this beautiful beach called Vik. We set up camp right on the beach, with giants mountains surrounding us, and they were covered with sheep! The sand was so white! And the color of the water was so bright! It felt like i was back in Hawaii, though the only difference i was wearing woolen long underwear!
The sun came out for a few minutes so we decided to go for a swim. It was crazy cold!! We had to make a huge fire to warm up. The next day we just hiked hoping to get to a surfer town call Unnstad. We i guess chose the worst route imaginable. It took us forever to reach the next town! All the hike was steep and rocky. (I now have terrible blisters) We finally got to this small grouping of houses to find out that it was not our destination, but we got picked up my a man that drove us straight to the beach of Unnstad. I guess it is world famous for its awesome surfing conditions. We even saw a few surfers! crazy people. 
We made friends with an old norsk man who was making a fire on the beach. He only spoke Norwegian but my friend speaks Swedish so we got by alright. Anyways he told us he was burning the remains of all the party's he had had that summer. He was real nice to us. He gave us firewood and let us come up to his house to fill up our water bottles. His cute little wife was making jam from berries they had around there house. She painted all these rocks in front of their house.
Then we got to see his party barn. It was in the hayloft. This guy had it filled with old norsk antiques, and a huge hand made wooden table, lots of reindeer hides, a piano. A very cool place! Since it was such a small town the only way out was to catch the school bus. So that was how we traveled! The bus dropped us off at the Viking Musesum in Borg, unfortunately it was closed for the season. But there was alot to see outside, they tried to portray how the vikings would have lived. There was all sorts of animals, a huge ship in the water, a black smiths shop etc. etc. When back in Svalbær we went to an ice bar called Magic Ice! That night we returned to Alta on the Hurtigruten .. then back to school.
Nice blogg
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