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Hardangerjøkulen is Norway’s sixth largest glacier.

The guided tour on the glacier starts in the morning at the Finse hotel reception and finishes after 6-7 hours.
The season for glacier tours starts in July and extends into September.a

Bygdøy is a peninsula on the western side of Oslo, Norway.
It has several museums:

• The Viking Ship Museum – The Museum displays the large Viking ships Oseberg, Gokstad and Tune (yes, these are real Viking ships, not replicas), as well as founds from the chief grave at Borre in the Vestfold district. The three ships are the best preserved Viking ships known, found in royal burial mounds in the Oslo fjord.

• Kon-Tiki Museum – Kon-Tiki is the raft used by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition.
  Heyerdahl believed that people from South America could have settled Polynesia in the south Pacific in Pre-Columbian times. His aim in mounting the Kon-Tiki expedition was to show, by using only the materials and technologies available to them at the time, that there were no technical reasons to prevent them from having done so.

• The Fram Museum – Fram (“Forward”) was a ship used in expeditions in the Arctic and Antarctic regions by Norwegian explorers 1893–1912. Fram was probably the strongest wooden ship ever built; it was built for Fridtjof Nansen’s 1893 expedition where Nansen planned to let Fram freeze into the Arctic ice sheet and float through the ice sheet, via the North Pole. Fram is said to be the ship to have sailed furthest north and furthest south. Fram is preserved in whole at the Fram Museum.

Auschwitz is the name given to three main Nazi German concentration camps and 45-50 sub-camps.
The camps are nerby the town Oświęcim which is about 60 km southwest of the polish town Krakow.

• Auschwitz I – the original concentration camp which served as the administrative centre for the whole complex, and was the site of the deaths of roughly 70,000 Polish intellectuals, gay men and Soviet Prisoners of War

• Auschwitz II (Birkenau) – an extermination camp and the site of the deaths of roughly 1 million Jews, 75,000 Poles, gay men and some 19,000 Roma

• Auschwitz III (Monowitz) – which served as a labor camp for the IG Farben company

I went there in September 1998 on a arranged tour with other representitives students from my school (each high school in israel arranges once a year such tours).
Along with us came a real holocaust survivor, Ovadia Baruch, to tell us his horrifying story which gave the whole tour a more private point of view.

Auschwitz II made a big impact because I was able to grasp the magnitude of it.
Most of the barracks were destroyed after the war by the Russians, and the two crematoriums were totally blown up to dust by the Nazis.
The railroads leading into the camp is still there and I could imagine how people who came there went through selection for life and death.

It is important that more people visit Auschwitz – that Poles, and Jews and others from around the world, come to see this monument to the ability of man to inflict such pain and suffering on other men and women. And we should be learning from this experience. This is not just a memorial to the past; it is a memorial that teaches us lessons for the future.

The Holy Sepulchre is traditionally believed to be the location of Golgotha (the place of Jesus’ crucifixion) and Jesus’ nearby tomb.

It is generally considered to be the only remains of the Second Temple from the era of the Roman conquests.
There are said to be esoteric texts in Midrash that mention God’s promise to keep this one remnant of the outer temple wall standing as a memorial and reminder of the past.

The oldest of all the world-wide LEGOLAND theme parks. It is located in Billund, Denmark.
LEGOLAND features large-scale models, particularly of famous landmarks made in LEGO.

Prekestolen (aka Preacher’s Pulpit or Pulpit Rock) is a massive cliff 604 meters above Lysefjorden in Forsand, Norway.

In order to get there from Stavanger I had to take a 40 minutes ferry trip to Tau (The ferry time tables). When I got to Tau I took a bus ride to Prekestolen Camping/Parking Lot and from there it took me one hour and a half of intense walking and climbing to get up to the cliff itself. I encountered some bad weather on my way up there (in the middle of August) but when I got there the sky cleared up.

There is an easier way of seeing the Prekestolen in it’s full glory by getting reservations to see it thorugh an helicopter trip.

The view up on the Prekestolen is the most beautiful I have ever seen in my life.. I stayed there for 2-3 hours just enjoying myself..

• Tokyo
• Tokyo Disneyland
• Hiroshima

• Lazio > Rome
• Veneto > Venezia
• Toscana > Pisa
• Toscana > Firenze
• Lombardia > Milano
• Campania > Pompeii