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Snowmobile safari to Tempelfjorden II
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Snowmobile Safari to 'Barentsburg'
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Snowmobile safari to Tempelfjorden
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Snowmobile safari to the East coast
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Donna_in_India Says: We were up early in the morning for a (7 hours) snow mobile trip. A group of 6 of us met our guide at the Arctic Adventures office where we were outfitted with warm clothes, boots, long gloves, helmets, and goggles. We were driven out of town where the snowmobiles were...
Donna_in_India Says: We were excited about our first excursion in Spitsbergen. We were going dog sledding. We were picked up at our hotel and taken to the dog kennels a short distance out of town. My husband and I were going on one sled and the guide and a Norwegian lady were going on another....
sevenlulu Says: The environment, service and food - Just Great! You won't believe to have such high quality food in the far North. Every meal was fabulous to us, we tried deer meat, lamb, steak, fish, what else do one expect?
The restaurant at "Huset": Best meal served ever!
hawaii Says: VERY Expensive, but worth it! It has one of if not the largest winecellar in Europe. Delicious food. Whale-gaspacchio
VianneR Says: This is the way to cruise, it was wonderful. The smaller size made it possible to get to know all on board and made for a far more personal trip.
VianneR Says: What a terrific way to get to look at everything up close!!!
VianneR Says: Duffelbag that folds to hold little space in your cabin. I got mine for a few dollarsat an army navy surplus store. Two sets of gloves, sunglasses and two hats. You do not want to be without any of these itemsWellingtons for wet landings in the zodiac. Sunscreen! Casing...
globetrott Says: Lots of troubles afterwards :The captain lost his job as a captain , but was working in another department for the company lateron.The passengers got back a lot of their money, as we had to go back directely to Hamburg for repairs and did not visit any other port than just...
globetrott Says: A long rope had to be used, so the ships were not too close to each other--------------------------------------------------------------------- Ships have to show certain security-papers in every port. These papers expire in an accident like that one, and so we had been...
globetrott Says: Finally the tug-boat came and it took 2 attempts to take us out------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't ask me how much money that tug-boat finally was for our shipping company.The ship itself, 3 men onboard, diesel for 8 hours one-way...
globetrott Says: At least waiting for the tug-boat took place in this wonderful landscape-------------------------------------------------------------------- There were announcements of course, telling the people that a tug-boat was on the way to rescue us
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VERY Expensive, but worth it! It has one of if not the largest winecellar in Europe. Delicious food. Whale-gaspacchio
Q: Hi!, we are planning to go to Svaldbard in middle april, 12 nice people searching for adventure but with little resources, we...
A: Hi Maria - I think is it very difficult to do Svalbard inexpensively. We used www.spitsbergentravel.no/eng/ for our excursions. You probably have checked them and seen...
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M/S Vistafjord running aground in Spitzbergen 1979
It was one of the first cruises that I made onboard of M/S Vistafjord in 1979. The captain wanted to offer something SPECIAL to the passengers : A fjord, NO OTHER cruise-ships would go...
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I've got some interesting experiences in Spitsbergen. I'd love to share with you the 3 tips I've written, the 69 photos uploaded, and 9 travelogues I've created.
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Rugged beauty in the midnight sun
Somehow I decided a long time ago that I wanted to see Spitsbergen. I am not quite sure whether it was because of the stories of the north pole explorations or the pictures of a barren, harsh country....
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Spistbergen is the main island in a group of islands called Svalbard. Svalbard is a part of the Arctic. There are 3 main "towns"; Longyearbyen has app1900 inhabitants, Barentsburg has app. 300 and...
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Journal: Donna & Sandy in Spitsbergen
PREVIOUS STOP: GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN Our flight from Munich, Germany to Oslo, Norway took about 2 hours. We had a few hours layover in Oslo before our flight north to Tromso, Oslo. Tromso is far...
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