Stokmarknes

On the Havila Voyages cruise, you will be sailing on one of the newest coastal cruise ships. In Stokmarknes you get to see and experience the transport history behind it, from when shipowner Richard With started an express route between southern Norway and northern Norway in 1893. The journey time became significantly shorter. 

Transport became considerably easier, and among other things, the daily ship departures throughout the year meant that Northern Norway received regular postal deliveries. At the Hurtigruten Museum, you can board one of the largest museum exhibits in the world, the MS "Finnmarken", one of the classic ships that operated the Bergen–Kirkenes route for almost forty years since it was launched in 1956. 

Stokmarknes is part of Vesterålen where you can paddle, go diving or cycle through magnificent scenery. The mountains tower high above the fjord, and the most impressive of them all is the Trollfjord. Three kilometres long and so narrow that you feel as if you can touch the mountains on both sides at the same time as the mountain rises a thousand metres above you.