Insight Guide Norway (Insight Guides Norway) (Paperback)
May 10, 2009 by Destination Guide
Filed under Travel Norway Guides
Product Description
Fully revised and updated, this 394-page guide includes a section detailing Norway’s history, 15 features covering aspects of the country’s life and culture, ranging from myths and sagas to fishing for sport and sustenance; a region by region visitor’s guide to the sights, and a travel tips section packed with contact addresses. This title includes key features such as: Places – region-by-region gazetteer section, with top attractions highlighted and cross-referenced with detailed local maps; Essay Features – incisive essays on the islands’ history, people and culture; Photo Features – magazine-style full-colour features on some of the country’s most exotic sights, including its fjords and snowy Arctic Circle; and Travel Tips – practical listings section, including accommodation, restaurants, pubs, bars and cafes, entertainment, nightlife, transport and essential contact addresses and numbers. It also includes hundreds of full-colour photos and 15 maps.
About the Author
Since 2000. Hammond, American Map, Langenscheidt Dictionaries, Insight Travel Guides, Delorme – the famous names in the Langenscheidt family. These represent the most authoritative, up-to-date, and extensive travel and reference products available. In January 2003, the renowned Berlitz Publishing became part of the Langenscheidt Group. The Langenscheidt Publishing Group, the premier group of map and travel companies, offers over 4,000 North American and international street maps, road maps, atlases, language-learning, bilingual dictionaries, and travel-related products covering countries, cities, and languages in every continent.
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For part of our honeymoon, my wife and I decided to tour Norway and the rest of Scandinavia. For Norway, there was no better guide than this little book. It gave us all the info we needed – baring accommodation. But that can be seen to easily by popping into Norway’s myriad tourist offices and booking ahead.
It’s great for a number of reasons. One, it’s very small and fits in your pocket – unlike most of the competition. Two, there is little so-called ‘travel advice’. It focuses mainly on the best places to visit, what you can see when there and then ranks them in orders of fabulousness. The nice thing is that each chapter is a self-contained route that you can follow by car, by train or in Norway’s case, by boat. Three, there are colour pictures of each destination along the route – to whet your apetite. Yes, there are one of two that look a bit dated, but most are nature pics and these won’t change much in a 1000 years, never mind fifteen.
I really liked this book and found it extremely useful – along with its Finland counterpart. What better than a guide book that’s ultra-light, clearly written and full of colour pictures. Top marks Insight.
I bought this book as a gift for my Host Family in Minnesota, USA , when I went there as a foreign exchange student. The book is good, and tells a lot about Norway, but for a book being marked as printed in 2000, the pictures are really old. I would say some of the pictures in this book looks like they are from the 80′s. One example is the Royal Family, where the Crown Prince looks like he is around 11-12 years old. He is now in his 20′s and engaged. But the nature still looks the same, so if you don’t care too much about pictures, you can buy this book.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A must-have for a vist to Norway!
We bought this book before traveling to Norway. It gave us so much valuable information. We traveled along the fjords, Bergen, and Oslo.