Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
This gourmet food shop is a great place to buy wild salmon and other fish, reindeer, roe
deer and elk. The interior is a mini-menagerie of stuffed animals and birds eyeing you
glassily from all angles; pay your respects to the amiable brown bear.
Information
Tourist Office
TOURIST OFFICE
(
74 22 66 04;
visitnamdalen.com
;
Havnegata 9;
9am-5pm Mon-Fri, 10am-4pm Sat mid-Jun-mid-
Aug)
The seasonal tourist office rents bicycles (Nkr50/120 per hour/day) and also provides in-
formation about the Kystriksveien.
Getting There & Away
Nor-Way Bussekspress runs twice daily between Namsos and Trondheim (Nkr398, 3½
hours). There are up to eight buses daily to/from Steinkjer (Nkr187, 1½ hours).
WORTH A TRIP
LEKA
You won't regret taking a short side-trip to the wild and beautiful island of Leka (pop 556);
for hikers, the desertlike Wild West landscape is particularly enchanting. This prime habit-
at for the white-tailed sea eagle (hold on to your little ones; in 1932, a three-year-old girl
was snatched away by a particularly cheeky specimen) also has several Viking burial
mounds and Stone Age rock paintings.
Nkr130/230, d/q with bathroom & kitchen Nkr700/900). For comfort, reserve one of its well-
equipped, reasonably priced motel rooms. For something different and more spartan,
hire a sod-roofed stone hut (Nkr400), sleeping up to four in bunk beds.
Leka is accessed by a hourly ferry from Gutvik, a 20-minute drive from the Rv17 coastal
road.
