Behind a polar circle there was usual June weather. Mornings are clean, transparent, in the afternoon stem of thermometer rose even up to +25. Towards evening clouds came, but by midnight the sky cleared up again and the sun filled in all around. Sitting on steps small forest & laquo; хьютте» sipping strong 40-degree aquavit, it is possible to be heated in beams of this midnight sun. To listen to silence and to bring slowly in the netbook of an impression of day travel on the North of Norway.
Constantly there live 3300 people & mdash; in the town of Honningsvog (near it traces of the most ancient settlement in the territory of Norway just were also found) and in several fishing small villages. With the continent Mageryoya connects the tunnel 6,8 km long dug at a depth of two hundred with superfluous meters below sea-level. Fare to pony is 145 Norwegian kroner from the ordinary car and 775 kroner from the bus & mdash; an utter nonsense for thousands of travelers who are annually going to "the poor island" to look at the place where Europe comes to an end. It comes to an end suddenly: the flat land surface suddenly breaks a steep, three hundred-meter abyss. Below silently lap steel color of a wave. Afar the boundless World Ocean stretches for hundreds and thousands of kilometers Е Even the most unemotional person at this boundary is involuntarily covered by some strange feeling and visit thoughts of limits of all real. Actually, for the sake of this beauty people also renounced the truth. The extremity of any island by the rules adopted in geography cannot be considered as an extreme point of the continent. But, anyway, Norwegians consider the cape Nordkap the northernmost tip of Europe. As a tourist object it is for the first time mentioned in the guide of 1867. From the 1875th Cook's agency will organize regular groups for Nordkap's visit. In the 1890th the seven-day cruise in a cabin of the first class from Trondheim to Nordkap cost 300 kroner, the sum astronomical for those times. The ships usually moored and landed passengers in the gulf Hornvika, in 2,5 km to the east from the well-known cape. There to this day the remains of the old mooring and the leader on the top of a ladder in 1008 steps remained. The normal overland way to Nordkap, by the way, was paved only in 1956, and till that time the sea way remained the main thing. At the end of the 19th century on the cape there was only a small hexagonal wooden pavilion. Today there is a big tourist Nordkapphallen complex. It is necessary to pay tribute to his architects: over the Earth's surface two floors tower at most. Inside panoramic movie theater at which the beautiful specific roller is shown. Restaurant, gift shop. The most northern in the world post office from where cards with the corresponding stamp go. Having paid symbolical 30 kroner, it is possible to acquire the personalized certificate confirming your stay on the edge of the Old World. The administration urges not to designate the visit by inscriptions like "There was Vasya (Fritz, John, Akiro Е)" and also not to build a pyramid of stones which separately look very lovely, but in mass quantity do not decorate a surrounding landscape at all. From the main building of Nordkapphallen to the region of the cape conducts a hundred-meter tunnel; placed in it is mute an exposition tells about the history of opening Nordkapa. There is a Thai pavilion devoted to a visit here in 1907 of the king Chulalongkorn. Row & mdash; an ecumenical chapel in which wedding ceremonies are made. And at the end of a tunnel Grotten Bar where to guests suggest to note achievement of the cape a glass of ice champagne & mdash is located; such is 150-year tradition. A certain theatrical action is at the same time developed: solemn music sounds, over steklyannoysteny the curtain slowly rises, opening a view of the ocean and the midnight sun hanging over the horizon. You will be able to observe all this if you in one of summer months decide to meet on Nordkap new day.
The most amazing that ancestors of the modern person lived on the wild island Mageryoya, nearly in one thousand kilometers to the north of the Polar circle, in the Stone Age & mdash yet; 10 000 years ago. What did they forget here? Really did not find for yourself other, more comfortable place?. Mageryoya Square about nine hundred square kilometers. Several spacious gulfs and fjords. Mountains 300-400 meters high above sea level & mdash; once, on a legend, they were huge trolls. Dozens of small lakes & mdash; in the summer they feed the streams running from the melting snezhnik; in the winter all is held down by cold and ice around. Uniform tree & mdash; not without reason Mageryoya received a pro-rank "poor island".
Beginning in Kirkenes, at the Russian-Norwegian border, strategic Highway E6 extends along everything the western coast of Norway which is cut up by fjords, to Trondheim, and then goes to depth of the continent, through Lillehammer to Oslo. In 175 km from Alta on Highway E6, in the depth of Flight fjord, the town of Storslett, the administrative center of Northern Troms lies. He on the southeast is left by rather narrow beautiful valley of the river Flights. On both of its sides & mdash; mountain chains height about kilometer or it is slightly more. One of the met small villages for some reason is called Moscodalen, "The Moscow valley" Е On the 52nd kilometer the road comes to an end also with mdash; further, to border with Finland, the territory of one of 25 Norwegian national parks. Eight hundred square kilometers absolutely wild nature & mdash; neither housing, nor people. In depth of the park conduct pedestrian tracks. It is possible to use the motor boat and to rise upstream the bright small river Flights to the Molisfossen falls. If to move on foot, the road to it will occupy hour four. Hardly anyone will undertake to count how many falls in mountain Norway. Molisfossen from them not the most known and not the biggest, but because not less beautiful. A powerful milky-white stream in a cloud of water dust, making a sound gradually of the working turbine, it is overthrown from height of 269 meters & mdash; on some forty meters is lower than the Eiffel Tower!
