Oslo is the fastest growing capital in Europe and is renowned for its vibrant cultural life, its many new prestigious buildings and its location between the forested and hilly areas surrounding Oslo and the Fjord. Here you can go to
the forest during the day, have a con­ cert in the evening and take a night in the fjord on one and the same day.
A few hours from Oslo you will find the country’s highest mountain range. Here you can go up to Galdhøpiggen (2469 meters above sea level) and Glittertind (2464 meters above sea level), and if you enjoy more than 2000 meters, Jotunheimen 253 has tops of the same kind. The landscape below the mountains is intersected by north­south dale valleys. In Gud­ brandsdalen you are in the midst of the people and nature that inspired Henrik Ibsen’s (play?) Peer Gynt. And just as in Peer Gynt’s time you can still see reindeer walking in the mountains and the king of the forest hide behind the trees.
Eastern Norway has many fjord lakes that were formed by glaciers during the last ice age, including the Rands­ fjord, Krøderen and Sperillen.