Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
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. There's little reason to linger in the town itself.
Sights
Polar Park
ZOO
(
www.polarpark.no
; adult/child Nkr215/125;
9am-6pm Jun-Aug, 9am-4pm Mon-Fri, noon-4pm Sat
& Sun Sep-May)
This large open-air zoo is 23km south of Setermoen and 3.3km east of the E6. It features
wildlife of the boreal
taiga
(marshy forest) in spacious enclosures that, but for the metal
fencing, are scarcely distinguishable from the surrounding birch forests. Here you can
watch animals such as brown bears, deer, musk oxen, reindeer, wolves, Eurasian lynx,
wolverines, badgers and both red and polar fox.
Follow the keeper around at predator feeding time (normally 1pm; check at reception),
with a host of other up-close encounters possible.
Setermoen Church
CHURCH
( 10am-5pm Mon-Sat late Jun-early Aug)
A bell in the porch of this early-19th-century octagonal church dates from 1698. The in-
genious heating system, with wood stoves and hot-water pipes beneath the pews, must en-
courage attendance - or perhaps somnolence - during even the longest sermons.
Forsvarsmuseum
MUSEUM
(adult/child Nkr60/free; 10am-3pm Mon-Fri)
Those who are aroused by war games will have fun at the Troms Defence Museum with its
evocative interior dioramas and over 20 military vehicles to explore outside.
