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voyage offers the Trollfjorden Our View K OLA A Lofoten islands WheneverPENINSULA we are able to fit into our schedules we do so and traveller scenery on an “ NORWEGIAN Torghatten since our establishmentWHITE in 1991 have operated many voyages in the SEA epic scale, together with SEA Bronnoysund region. It is certainlyArkhangel one’sk of our most popular destinations and is perfect Se Oulu verna a wonderful feeling of Trondheim for exploration aboard a yasmall Dvina ship. Each time we have developed the NORWAY Nordfjord itineraryFINLAND and now believe we have the perfect mix of fjords, small towns, peace and tranquility. The Olden Bygstad history and wildlife.L.Onega During our voyage you will see the archeological Sognefjord Sukhona immense size of the fjords Lerwick Flam sites of OrkneyL.Ladoga and Shetland Islands, visit the small Norweigan towns of A TLANTIC Naerofjord Helsinki RUSSIA and the timeless quality of Kirkwall Bygstad (whereSankt-Peterburg we made the first ever cruise call in 2011) and Rosendal OCEAN Hardangerfjord Volga andTallinn enjoy a ride on the dramatic railway in Flam. Our ship also lets us scenes that have changed Leith ESTONIA Nizhniy Novgorod experience the majesticTver’ fjords and allows us to survey the wondrous little in the past centuries SCOTLAND LATVIA sceneryDauga from the comfortMoscow of the MS Island Sky. Some destinations are Riga va Aarhus Isle of create a unique atmosphereIRELAND Man DENMARK simply best explored by ship and Norway is certainly one of these. Dublin IRISH SEA Copenhagen LITHUANIA Nem unas ” Manchester Vilnius Cork Dnepr that can be particularly enjoyed UNITEDfromSe KINGDOM the comfort of the RUSSIA v er Birmingham Gdansk Minsk WALES n Cardiff Hamburg Don ENGLAND Amsterdam MS Island Sky. London E l b e BELARUS Vistula The Hague Poznan Thames ipyat Berlin Pr Desna NETHERLANDSMeuse B u g and wheelhouses, several Norse

Rhine Dortmund Warsaw ENGLISH CHANNEL BELGIUM Brussels O d r POLAND Leipzig Khar’kov longhouses, a Medieval farmstead, a The Itinerary Le Havre GERMANY Kiyev Seine Our voyage begins on the east coast of ScotlandFrankfurt in the port of V i s t u l a Paris LUXEMBOURG Prague EmbarkDnepr the MS Island and the 16th-century laird’s house. Krakow DayL’vov 1 Leith. CZECH St. Nazaire Leith and from here we cruise northNantes calling Strasbourginto the OrkneyREPUBLIC Dnestr UKRAINE Loire Sky this afternoon. Transfers will Alternatively explore the town’s SLOVAK Rostov-na-Donu Donau C Munich Vienna REPUBLIC A Bratislava R FRANCE be providedP from Edinburgh Viking heritage as we enjoy a Islands and Shetland Islands before beginning our navigation A MOLDOVA Zurich Pr LIECHTENSTEIN AUSTRIA Budapest T ut SEA OF H B a y of SWITZERLANDS Graz AZOV I walking tour which includes a visit Bordeaux HUNGAR Y InternationalA AirportOdessa and Waverley Bisca y Lyon P Garonne N of the Norwegian fjords. Words cannotMASSIF describeL the awe-SLOVENIA S Milan Ljubljana Zagreb Train Station at a fixed time. Sail to the Shetland Museum, which has Bilbao CENTRAL A ROMANIA Rhône Sevastopol’ P Po Porto Y Toulouse CROATIA Bucharest inspiring scenery as we take inR views of mountains, glaciers, Nice I T A L Y Bologna this evening. over 3,000 artefacts on two floors, a Duero E BOSNIA- Belgrade BLA CK SEA PORTUGAL N Andorra la Vella A SAN- HERZEGOVINA E Marseilles MONACO A D R IA Danube Ebro MARINO E ANDORRA P Sarajevo wealth of easily accessible archive waterfalls, valleys and truly dramaticS fjords. AmongstP them, Tajo T IC S E A BULGARIA Madrid Corsica Tiber YUGOSLAVIA Lisbon E Sofiya Barcelona Elba Ajaccio N Day 2 Kirkwall, Orkney Islands. material, a temporary exhibition Guadiana Naerofjorden has been included on UNESCO’s WorldN Skopje SPAIN Rome Istanbul Valencia BALEARIC IS. Tirane MACEDONIAAfter a morning at sea we arrive area and the boat shed. Sail at Palma Minorca Guadalquivir Sardinia Seville TYRRHENIAN Naples Ankara Heritage List. Ibiza Majorca ALBANIA Thessaloniki mak Taranto Murcia SEA Golf on the Orkney Isles which have lunchtime and enjoy an afternoon Kizil Ir Str Tar o di A E G E A N S E A ait of Gibr Gibraltar Malaga Cagliari anto altar Cartagena M E GREECE Tangier Cueta D I some of the best TURKEYNeolithic sites at sea. T E Gediz

Algiers R Palermo Messina S Melilla IONIAN Izmir O Oran R in Britain as well as an intriguingR A highlight for many will be the journey’Annaba on the Flam Railway,SEA Athens O A T Adana Rabat Bizerte Antalya S N Sicily Casablanca A L E Siracusa Kalamai T Tunis Norse history and culture. Explore Day 4 Rosendal, Hardangerfjord, A A one of theMOROCCO most beautifulN railway lines in the world. The train Rhodes SYRIA E Y N Nicosia O M I E N Arrive this morning in H A R Kirkwall,Khania one of the earliest Norway. S A MALTA Iráklion CYPRUS S TUNISIA Limassol L A journey provides us withT viewsALGERIA of some of Norway’s wildest LEBANON A Crete established Norse trading towns,Beirut Hardangerfjord, the third largest and most magnificent scenery with rivers cutting through with a visit to the Norse-built St fjord in the world, before docking deep ravines, cascading waterfalls, snow-capped mountains Magnus Cathedral. Later, drive at Rosendal. We will drive along through a landscape of sheer rocky the fjord towards the small part and mountain farms clinging to sheer slopes. cliffs, sandy beaches and pastures of the Hardangerfjord called to the excavated village of Skara Maurangerfjord, experiencing the We then continue our journey along the fjord indented coast, Brae which dates back 5000 years idyllic scenery and farms on the way. into the Arctic Circle to the Lofoten Islands, with their many to the Neolithic Age. Also, see When we arrive at the small village the remarkable standing stones of of Sunndal we will walk to Bondhus small fishing villages amongst a backdrop of mountainous Stenness and the Ring of Brodgar. Lake which is surrounded by a scenery that often experiences snowfall even in the summer. fascinating landscape of fjords and Here we also spend time exploring the narrow and deep sided Day 3 Lerwick, Shetland Islands. mountains. We return to Rosendal After breakfast we will tie alongside and have free time to explore the Trollfjorden. in the capital of Lerwick. We town, maybe visit the 12th century have a choice of excursions this church or see the A journey such as this can of course only be undertaken morning. Choose to either visit the gardens at Barony Rosendal. by a special vessel with the self-sufficient qualities of the magnificent site of Jarlshof where the archaeological ruins date from Day 5 Bergen, Norway. Spend the MS Island Sky. With our Zodiacs we shall be able to take the Stone Age to the 17th century. day in this lovely fjord capital. A advantage of wildlife sightings, weather conditions and The site contains a remarkable guided excursion will include the explore areas that the bigger ships cannot reach. sequence of stone structures – old quarter with its quaint Hanseatic late Neolithic houses, a Bronze- houses and the home of Norway’s Age village, an Iron-Age broch most famous composer, Edvard Experience scenery on an epic scale, together with a wonderful feeling of peace and tranquility.

Flam Railway Lofoten Cathedral

Greig. This afternoon is free to and also visit Scandinavia’s smallest which has been eroded by the explore at leisure before we sail church which is still in use. sea. During lunch we will sail this evening. through Bronnoysund and cruise Day 8 Sunnfjord, Bygstad, Norway. this afternoon. This evening we Day 6 Sognefjord, Naerofjord & Sunnfjord lies at the heart of cross the Arctic circle passing Flam, Norway. Today we spend with its starkly the monument of the island of the day enjoying spectacular contrasting fjord scenery, half way Vikingen when we will raise a toast fjord scenery from aboard the MS between Bergen and Alesund. Its onboard. Island Sky. Sognefjord, Norway’s little known fjord arms and gentler longest and deepest fjord extends landscape in harmony with powerful Day 12 Lofoten Islands & more than 200km inland and is and diverse watercourses have left Trollfjorden, Norway. This surrounded by three national their impression on the landscape morning we arrive in the Lofoten parks. Here we will see thundering and settlement. Today’s tour will Archipelago, an enchanting area waterfalls, glacier arms stretching take us through this beautiful of picturesque villages with jagged down into green valleys and environment with its magnificent granite mountain peaks forming a many small farms clinging to the waterfalls and mountains. We will dramatic backdrop. We will have a beautiful, narrow and steep sided mountainside. We will continue to visit Sunnfjord Museum, which full day tour to explore the villages Trollfjorden enjoying the birdlife, the UNESCO World Heritage site of provides an insight into how life and life of these islands. We will waterfalls and dramatic scenery. Naerofjorden, one of the many fjord was in Sunnfjord settlements in disembark in the small fishing arms of Sognefjord and considered the mid-1800s, before taking a village of Aa where we will visit the Day 13 Tromso, Norway to one of the most dramatic fjords. scenic drive to the region known local museum before continuing London. Disembark this morning This evening we will moor at the as ‘the waterfall country’ making to the nearby village of Reine. Our and transfer to the airport for your village of Flam. various stops at waterfalls and small next stop will be the village of Sund scheduled flight to London via settlements. where we will visit the blacksmith Oslo. Day 7 Flam, Norway. This morning famous for their forged cormorants. we will embark on one of the most Day 9 Nordfjord & Olden, Norway. We continue to the Viking centre Soft expedition: This cruise is not dramatic train rides in Europe. This morning we arrive at the small at Borg where we enjoy a local classified as an expedition cruise, The Flâm Railway is only 20 village of Olden and from here lunch before continuing to Kabelva however Zodiac landing crafts will kilometres long but a masterpiece we travel up the beautiful Olden where we visit the Lofoten museum be used on some days to explore of engineering. The train climbs up Valley. Where the road ends we and Kare Espolin Johnson gallery. coastlines and to land on some from sea-level to 867 metres during continue on foot to the great This evening we enjoy a barbeque of the islands which have minimal these 20 kilometres, crossing back cascade of water which rushes from on deck as we sail through the infrastructure. and forth across rivers and through beneath the Briskdal Glacier. This 20 tunnels. To allow you to view the afternoon enjoy the spectacular magnificent scenery the train will scenery of Nordfjord as we cruise to Prices per person proceed slowly and even stop at Trondheim. Based on double occupancy the Kjosfossen waterfall where you may leave the train to take a closer Day 10 Trondheim, Norway. After LAUNCH OFFER – SAVE £500 PER PERSON FOR A look or take some pictures. At a morning at sea we arrive into LIMITED TIME ONLY Vatnahalsen you will leave the train Trondheim. On our afternoon Deck Suite Category Brochure Price Early Booking Price and walk from the station to the excursion we will see the outdoor Magellan Standard Forward £6295 £5795 Mountain Hotel. Here there will be Norwegian Folk Museum with its Magellan Standard £6495 £5995 time to relax and take a walk before vintage buildings, stave church Columbus Superior £6695 £6195 re-boarding the train back to Flâm. and Sami huts. We continue to the Marco Polo Premium £6995 £6495 After lunch onboard the afternoon spectacular Nidaros Cathedral and Marco Polo Corner £7395 £6895 is free to spend time relaxing in explore the town centre itself with Erikson Deluxe Balcony £7795 £7295 the village or join the optional its colourful wooden houses and Explorer Owner’s Balcony £7995 £7495 excursion to Undredal. This small canals. Magellan Standard for sole use £9995 £9495 village lies in idyllic surroundings Columbus Superior for sole use £10695 £10195 by the Aurlandsfjord which, until Day 11 Torghatten & Bronnoysund, 1988 depended totally upon boat Norway. This morning Mount Price Includes: Economy class scheduled flight from Tromso to London, 12 nights communication. It is a lovely little Torghatten will come into view, aboard the MS Island Sky on full board basis including wine, beer and soft drinks with lunch and dinner onboard, shore excursions, Noble Caledonia onboard team, village with a population of 130 one of the most famous landmarks transfers, port taxes, gratuities on board the ship and on excursions people and some 500 goats. We on the Norwegian coast. A fairly Not Included: Travel insurance, optional excursions. will taste some goat’s cheese, still strenuous optional walk will take NB. Itinerary subject to weather conditions, ports subject to change. On days where made using traditional methods you to the ‘hole’ in the mountain there are a choice of excursions minimum numbers will apply for them to operate.

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