Hardangerfjord – Cruise Port Events: National Day (May 17), Midsummer Night: Children´s Mock Wedding (June 23) Cruise Season: April-October. Average temperature: (Celsius) May: 10°, June: 14.5°, August: 15°, September: 11° on a 24 hour basis. Useful links: Tourist Information: www.visitulvik.com. Cruise Information: www.cruisehardangerfjord.com. Port Information: (+47) 56 52 61 05

Fruit Blossom. Photo: Photo: Brakanes Hotel Apple Brandy Tasting. Photo: Photo: Saft og Siderfabrikk Ulvik and Ulvikfjord. Photo: Reinhold Kaeger

and walks in the surrounding hills. orchards. Distance from port 2-3 km. along the same route. Walking distance: 1.5-7 km. Duration: 2 hours Capacity: 20-90. Distance from port: 20 km (Osa mountains)

Concerts & Folklore programs Cultural performances and VIP tours Voss Duration: 0.5-1 hour Please contact Ulvik Tourist Information for further A Cultural Tour to Voss Concerts and Folklore programs featuring local information and details of tailor made programs. By coach from Ulvik, driving through orchards and musicians, singers and dancers can be arranged in forests, passing mountains and spectacular various locations. Distance from port: 0.5-3 km. Hardanger.“Sea to Sky” waterfalls. Visit Voss Folk Museum, a cluster farm Duration: 15 minutes – in the air. situated at Mølster. Then the Voss stone church from Farm visits Experience the fjords, mountains and glaciers from 1100. Coffee stop can be included. Return to Ulvik Duration: 1.5 hours the air, while the helicopter pilot explains the area to by coach. Duration: 4-5 hours. Farm visits, including coffee/tea and cakes, can be you (Norwegian and English). There is no other way Distance from port: 50 km (Voss). booked at several farms in the area. to see so much of the mountain and fjords in such a short time! Geilo At the Hardanger Juice & Cider Factory you have “Across the roof of ” the opportunity to taste apple juice and cider. Your Osa and the Osa mountains. Leave Ulvik by coach and drive to Voss where you host will tell you about the production and you will be “Valleys and Rivers”. Duration: 3-4 hours. board the Railway Line for a tour across the shown round the factory. Distance from port: 3 km. Leave Ulvik by coach passing through the green fields roof of Norway to Geilo, where lunch is served. Duration: 2 hours Capacity: 90 and orchards, including a stop at Hjeltnes Horticultural Return by coach through the Hardangervidda College. The journey continues along Osafjorden, a mountain plateau, Norway’s largest national park, to Local Cider Farms wild and narrow branch of the , to Osa. . Duration: 8-10 hours. At local cider farms you have the opportunity to taste There is time to visit the Austdalen river and the apple juice and cider. Your host will tell you about the Hjadlane Gallery before driving up the winding Distance from port: 110 km (Geilo-Ulvik). production and show you around the premises and mountain road to the Osa Mountains. Return to Ulvik

Ulvik Tender Port. Photo: Reinhold Kaeger

PORT OF ULVIK Local currency: NOK Max number of passenger per day in port: 4.000 Distance to nearest pilot station nautical miles/Hours: ATM: Yes, 100 m from port Max number of ships per day in port: No limitation Arriving from North: Marstein pilot station 105 nm Currency exchange: Yes, 100 m from port Ships stay min /max: No limitation Arriving from South: Skudefjord pilot station 120 nm Tax refund: Not available Environmental limitations /restrictions: No Visiting address: Brakanes Hotel, NO-5730 Ulvik Public telephones in pier area: Yes Port facilities according to Ulvik Mailing address: Brakanes Hotel, NO-5730 Ulvik Internet access in pier area: Yes Cruise Norway`s guidelines: Yes Contact person: Georg Angell Hansen Mailboxes in pier area: Yes Phone /Fax: +47 56 52 61 05/ +47 56 52 64 10 Distances - airport: 160 km to Bergen Airport Flesland Maximum ship length: No limitations – the pearl of Hardanger E-mail: [email protected] Distance to city center: 100 m Maximum ship draft and depth in sea: No limitation Internet: www.cruisehardangerfjord.com Nearest hospital: Voss Hospital, +47 56 53 35 00, 44 km Maximum ship air draft if bridge: 55 m Crew Facilities: Full service hotel by the tender pier In Ulvik tourism has been a permanent fixture of daily life for more than 150 years. The warm summers, TOURIST INFORMATION PORT SERVICES / FACILITIES & INFORMATION Visiting address: Promenaden 7, NO-5730 Ulvik Bunkers delivery /method: No ANCHORAGE the tranquillity and lush nature have attracted holidaymakers for generations. Ulvik offers an active holiday Distance from port: 150 m Supplies: No Type of bottom: Sand bottom Mailing address: NO-5730 Ulvik Waste handling: No Minimum depth: 50 m with a number of outdoor activities. Folklore performances, farm visits and excursions by coach and fjord cruisers are Phone / Fax: +47 56 52 62 80 Waste water method: No Distance from anchorage to tender pier: 100-300 m also included in our shorex menu. E-mail: [email protected] Tugboats: No Internet: www.visitulvik.com Anchorage: Yes Ulvik and Hardanger, being the orchard of Norway, are famous for the fruit blossom in May. From July and until late Pontoons: No GENERAL INFORMATION Pilot: Channel 16 October we harvest sweet cherries, plums, pears and apples. Why not take a stroll through the compact village center Guide Service: Every major language Emergency: Local surgery. +47 56 52 70 40, channel 16 where you will find public services, shops, hotels and cafes as well as different exhibitions of arts and crafts. Terminal/Restrooms in pier area: No Medical emergency: Phone 113 Shuttle bus: No Charts: Norwegian charts 117-118 The new , opening in June 2013, will present new and more flexible opportunities in itinerary Parking place for buses: Yes Tidal movement: 0.5-1.0 m Taxi: Yes ISPS approved: Yes planning for shore excursions (no ferry with limited space).Maximum ship air draft is 55 m. Rental cars: No Designated quays for cruise ships: No Public transportation: Yes Ship tenders allowed: Yes Shopping: 100 m from pier area Beam: No - NB Airdraft new bridge 55 m Attractions/excursions Haugesenteret – situated at the water front. Osa and its two narrow mountain valleys, rivers and In Ulvik the Nynorsk Kultursentrum is now waterfalls are known for their unique flora and offer a “A taste of Hardangerfjord” establishing a research and visitor center presenting unique experience to walkers, hikers and A half-day excursion from Port of Ulvik or Port of the life amd poetry of one of the most important photographers. Eidfjord. 4 hrs. The guided tour by coach or combined Norwegian poets, Olav H. Hauge (1908-1994). with a fjord cruise to Hardanger Juice & Cider Factory His works have been translated into more than 25 The Osa Mountains, a 20 km drive (toll road) from offers a taste of cider, apple juice and local traditional languages. The center offers exhibitions Monday- Ulvik at an altitude of 1000-1250 m has a moonlike = anchorage food, including a guided introduction and history of Friday 9am-3pm related to Olav H. Hauge and other landscape of cliffs, rocks and snow. how the cider and juice is made in Hardanger. poets and literature. Guided tours or a visit outside U L V I K U l vik- c e ntr e Distance from port: 3 km. Capacity: 90. opening hours can be arranged. The Hjadlane Gallery of Modern Art presents pol l e n various exhibitions throughout the year by local Express Boat 25 m Fjord Cruise with MS Lady Anne Skeiesmylna was originally built in Bergen and was artists and often based on a theme of nature or Capacity: 100 passengers moved to Ulvik in the 1890s. Grain from the entire impressions from a journey or an event. Quay: Length: Draft: Airdraft: Beam: Height Quayside: Hardanger area was processed here. Today you’ll find Distance from port: 12 km. Tyssevijke 91 m / 300 f. Tonnage: 4200 55 m - - Ulvik Church is the third in the line of churches in different exhibitions and activities in the mill. H j eltnes Ulvik. Consecrated in 1859, the interior was Hikes and walks 43 m U l vik - decorated in traditional decorative floral style in 1923 Hjeltnes Horticultural College is the oldest farming Duration 1.5-3+ hours fjor d e n by local artist Lars Osa. Church concerts and organ school in Norway, founded in 1901. The lovely gardens Ulvik offers a wide range of guided hikes, walks and 1 400 m recitals are offered. have a wide range of flowers, rare trees and bushes. It strolls, ranging from easy guided strolls in and around SCALE also has a herb garden and many old apple species. the village center to longer and more strenuous hikes

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