A taste of Vesterålen
A taste of Vesterålen
About the excursion
Direction: Southbound
Disembarkation port: Harstad
Embarkation port: Sortland
Time: 08:15-12:30
Meal: Local pastry, coffe/tea
Level: 1 (Read more)
Season: All year round
Min/max persons: 16-252
Booking reference: HRDS1
Price: From £ 88 per person
We start with city sightseeing in Harstad before visiting Trondenes Church, Trondenes Historical Centre and the Medieval Farm. Trondenes was an important political centre at the end of the Viking Age. The church you are going to visit dates from the 13th century and is the world's northernmost medieval stone church.
The Medieval Farm is a living museum where actors and animals show what life was like on this farm 800 years ago. You get to meet the housewife and the land owner, the farmhand and the maid, and watch them at work, the nature of which changes according to the seasons.
The road continues along Vesterålen's mountains and fjords with several photo stops along the way before you reach Sortland where you will see the Havila Kystruten ship pass under the almost one kilometre long Sortlandbrua (the Sortland Bridge) before reboarding the ship in Sortland Harbour.
Our voyages
North- and southboundRound Voyage
Bergen → Kirkenes → Bergen
SouthboundVoyage South
Kirkenes → Bergen
SouthboundThe Arctic Circle and Lofoten
Tromsø → Trondheim