Bodø Things to Do

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The city of Bodoe is full of mainly modern architecture as a lot of the old houses were destroyed in WW II. Nowadays Bodoe is certainly a good place to do some shopping and to take a walk when coming by cruiseship.

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This is also another interesting part of the Norsk Luftfartsmuseum: The former tower (Kontrolltarn) of the airport is part of the museum now and you can step up that tower and take a look over the airport and see the old instruments of the tower.

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Where else on earth will you see a Lockheed U-2 US-spy-aircarft in a museum ? You will also be able to read some stories about one of the pilots of that aircraft that was flying in a hight of 22km and was that way out of reach for the russian army to destroy it. Only once they were able to get hold of such an airplane, when it had technical problems and set the pilot in prison.

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You will be able to enter the cockpit of many of the airplanes in the Aviation Museum in Bodoe and you can take a closer look for the vast number of instruments and buttons there. And you will also see the difference of the cockpit of vintage airplanes like the Junkers JU52 and the more modern jets. In the JU52 you will also see that there is not much isolation for the whole airplane.

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Norsk Luftfartsmuseum
The Museum of Aviation is the best museum in Bodoe and it shows a lot of great vintage aircrafts and in a seperate hall also some aircrafts and other exhibits of WW II. On the total you need at least 1-1,5 hours to be able to enjoy all of the exhibits and when you come by Hurtigruten there will be a bus organized taking you there and what is even more important: it takes you back in time to the ship.
My favorite airplane in this museum was the swimming JU-52, that you can see in my main photo !
This museum is open:
Monday till Friday: 10.00am -04.00pm
and Sarturday & Sunday: 11.00am - 05.00pm

Bodø Domkirke, the cathedral of Bodøis quite a modern building with a significant tower. This church dates back to 1956, as the former church had been destroyed by the german troops in WW II. It is a pity we just passed by in the bus and I had just a few seconds to make my photo.

In the Arctic summertime the sun is shining almost all day long and for about 2 months you will even see the sunlight to never totally disappear and that is the time of the Midnight-Sun. The time of the Midnightsun varies of course and the further north you get the more days that time will last. Get on a large hill and watch the sun going down between 11.00pm and midnight and you will see that before touching the ocean the sun will start raising again.

Nordic Lights / Aurora Borrealis is a natural phenomenon that you can watch mainly in wintertime and you need to have a perfect combination of various situations:
1) the sky has to be without clouds
2) the sky needs to be dark, so you are able to see the reflections
3) you need certain activities of the sun, that are sometimes stronger and sometimes weaker
The way that I understood this is that these activities of the sun will happen all year long, but in summertime you cannot see them because of the bright sky.