Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
( 75 06 50 00;
www.rica.no
;
Torolv Kveldulvsons gate 16; s/d from Nkr850/1050)
Sandnessjøen's top-end choice, this large hotel with 69 trim rooms offers all the comfort
you'd expect from a member of the Rica chain.
Information
The
tourist office ( 75 04 45 00;
www.helgelandskysten.com
;
9am-7pm Mon-Fri,
10am-3pm Sat, noon-3pm Sun mid-Jun-mid-Aug, 10am-3pm Mon-Fri rest of yr)
is
by the docks. It hires bicycles (Nkr50/175 per hour/day) and has internet access (Nkr1 per
minute).
Getting There & Away
There are direct flights to Bodø, Trondheim, Mo i Rana and Mosjøen.
Bus destinations from Sandnessjøen include Brønnøysund (3½ hours, daily except
Sunday), Mosjøen (1¾ hours, three to five daily except Saturday), Mo i Rana (2¾ hours,
one to three services daily).
Sandnessjøen is also a stop for the Hurtigruten coastal ferry.
Træna & Lovund
Træna
is an archipelago of over 1000 small, flat skerries, five of which are inhabited.
Ferries from the mainland dock on the island of Husøy, which has most of Træna's pop-
ulation and lodgings, but the main sights are on the adjacent island of Sanna. This drop in
the ocean is just over 1km long with a miniature mountain range running the length of its
spine and culminating at the northern end in the 318m spire, Trænstaven.
Near Sanna's southern end, archaeologists discovered a cemetery and artefacts (now at
the Tromsø Museum) a good 9000 years old inside the cathedral-like
Kirkehelleren Cave
.
Prolific bird colonies roost on the steep-sided island of
Lovund
, which rises 623m
above the sea. Every 14 April the island (home to barely 250 people) celebrates Lundkom-
mardag, the day 200,000 puffins return to the island to nest until mid-August.
Express passenger boats connecting Sandnessjøen and Træna run daily.
