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Oslo offers an exciting two-day slate of sightseeing thrills. Ideally, spend two
days, and leave on the night boat to Copenhagen or on the scenic “Norway in
a Nutshell” train to Bergen the third morning. Spend the two days like this:
Day 1:
Take my self-guided introductory walk. Tour the Akershus Fortress
and the Norwegian Resistance Museum. Catch the City Hall tour. Spend the
afternoon at the National Gallery and at the Holmenkollen Ski Jump and mu-
seum.
Day2:
FerryacrosstheharbortoBygdøyandtourthe
Fram, Kon-Tiki,
and
Viking Ship museums. Spend the afternoon at the Norwegian Folk Museum.
Finish the day at Frogner Park, enjoying the Vigeland statues (two recommen-
ded restaurants are nearby).
Keep in mind that the National Gallery and the Vigeland Museum (at Fro-
gner Park) are always closed on Monday. The Nobel Peace Center and the Ed-
vard Munch Museum are closed on Mondays in the off-season.
Oslo is easy to manage. Its sights cluster around the main boulevard, Karl Jo-
hans Gate (with the Royal Palace at one end and the train station at the other),
and in the Bygdøy (big-doy) district, a 10-minute ferry ride across the harbor.
The city's other main sight, Frogner Park (with Gustav Vigeland's statues), is
about a mile behind the palace.
The monumental, homogenous city center contains most of the sights, but
headoutofthecoretoseethemorecolorfulneighborhoods.ChoosefromMa-
jorstuen and Frogner (chic boutiques, trendy restaurants), Grünerløkka (bo-
hemian cafés, hipsters), and Grønland (multiethnic immigrants' zone).
Oslo has two centrally located TIs: The
Oslo Tourist Information Center
faces City Hall (June-Aug Mon-Fri 9:00-19:00, Sat-Sun 9:00-18:00, shorter
hours and closed Sat-Sun off-season, Fridtjof Nansens Plass 5, enter from
Roald Amundsens Gate,
www.visitoslo.com
)
. Another TI is in front of the
