Experience Bodø and Saltstraumen
Experience Bodø and Saltstraumen
About the excursion
Bus tour with audio guide. Wear comfortable shoes and warm, windproof clothing. Rental of crampons and poles.
Direction: Northbaound
Disembarkation port: Bodø
Embarkation port: Bodø
Time: 13:05 - 15:10
Meal: None
Level: 1 (Read more)
Season: All Year
Min/max persons: 12 - 96
Booking reference: BOON2
Price: From £ 86 - $ 104 per person
You are north of the Arctic Circle, and the sun shines around the clock in the middle of summer.
On the excursion in Bodø, you get a small tour of the city, which has an airport in the centre, a university and, not least, Stormen Bibliotek og Stormen konserthus (Stormen Library and Stormen Concert Hall), a new cultural quarter that has won an architectural award and was named "Library of the Year in Norway". Bodø also has the Nordic Region's largest aviation museum.
We continue on a 30-minute bus ride through the fantastic northern scenery to Saltstraumen, the world's strongest tidal current. The sea forces itself through the narrow strait and into the fjord, and the height difference between the water on both sides of the strait is up to one metre. The strong currents can create whirlpools that are ten metres wide and four to five metres deep.
We make a longer stop here so you can see and take photos of the maelstroms, then we return to the quay in Bodø and board the Havila Voyages ship.
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