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after fire ripped through the former premises. Nearby is the small dam that held back the
waters for what is claimed to be the world's first hydroelectric plant, established in 1882.
Senjatrollet
TROLL THEME PARK
(
www.senjatrollet.no
;
9am-9pm Jun-Aug)
True,therecan'tbemuchcompetitionout-
side Scandinavia. But the Senja Troll, 18m high and weighing in at 125,000kg, is the
world's biggest, attested by the
Guinness Book of Records
. There's a tractor and railway
carriage for kids to clamber on and a cafe (some fine pewterwork on display for mum and
dad to look at) with shelf upon shelf of warty, bucktoothed trolls. Parents (Nkr100) and
children (Nkr70) can enter the bowels of the grinning giant and explore his intestines.
Getting There & Away
TwotothreedailybusesrunfromFinnsnestoTromsø(2¾hours)andNarvik(threehours)
with a connection in Buktamoen.
Express ferries connect Finnsnes with Tromsø (1¼ hours) and Harstad (1¾ hours) two to
three times a day.
It's possible to drive the whole of the northwest coast from Gryllefjord (linked by car ferry
with Andenes) to Botnhamn, with its car-ferry link to Brensholmen on Kvaløy, then on-
wards to Tromsø.
Westbound, a summertime car ferry connects Skrolsvik, on Senja's south coast, to Harstad
(1½ hours, two to four daily).
Finnsnes is also a stop for the Hurtigruten coastal ferry.
Setermoen & Around
The wooded town of Setermoen is best known to Norwegians as a military training centre
and venue for NATO exercises.
Polar Zoo
ARCTIC ANIMAL PARK
(
www.polarzoo.no
;
adult/child Nkr215/125; 9am-4pm or 6pm)
This large open-air
zoo is 23km south of Setermoen and 3.3km east of the E6. It features wildlife of the boreal
taiga in spacious enclosures that, but for the metal fencing, are scarcely distinguishable
from the surrounding birch forests. Here you can watch and photograph animals such as
brown bears, deer, musk oxen, reindeer, wolves, lynx, wolverines, badgers and both red
