This morning we sailed into the Oslo fjord. I guess I never knew that Oslo was in a fjord! There were times when you felt you could just reach over and touch the shore—it was that narrow! We pulled right in and parked the boat right downtown. This was probably the closest spot we have ever docked.
We have a tour this afternoon, so we got off the ship to look around town this morni
Mang. Oslo is a very clean city. There were workers in town working on the streets and sidewalks, even before we got there. We found an Internet site and used some time to get updated.
Onboard our tour bus, we got a small city tour before heading out to the Viking ship museum. They found several ships “buried” on land. These long boats were used as burial containers. They would drag one of these boats up on land, load it with one the Viking Kings or Queens, and then bury the whole thing. This was sometimes what was found in those Viking mounds. They had very complete boats, as compared to the boats at Roskilde yesterday.
Our next stop was at the Kon-Tiki museum. A Norwegian, Thor Heyerdahl, set out to prove that ancient civilizations could travel in a westerly direction, in the southern hemisphere. This, of course, goes along with some of our Book of Mormon stories which say that the islands of the South Pacific were populated by people from the Americas.
So Thor and his crew sailed the Kon-Tiki from South America to one of the islands of the South Pacific (in a westerly direction). He made another sailing in the Ra II from Africa to the Caribbean (also westerly).
Anyway, they had his actual boats there in the museum. The Kon-Tiki boat, made out of balsa wood, and Ra II, made out of reeds (or is it the other way around?) were both there. Kind of interesting!
Our last stop of the tour was to Oslo’s Frogner Park. Norway’s most famous sculptor was Gustav Vigeland. The city made a deal with him to display all of his works in a city park and in return they provided a workshop for him on the site. Most all of his statues are nudes showing the circle of life—babies-teens-adults-seniors.
His story was presented in several different venues. There were statues on a bridge, statues on the four corners of a fountain, statues carved out of a single stone in the form of a huge monolith, bronze plaques lining a fountain, and so on. Hmmm…interesting.
There might be a website where you can view his sculptures.
Right next to our ship in dock was a fortress with a castle and Oslo’s old town. When we left the harbor, there were people everywhere watching our ship pull out of town. There were people up as high as the boat, on the fortress, watching the boat leave.
Maridee's take on Oslo: This is one of the prettiest cities and area of our entire Baltic cruise. It is green, clean and just really nice. No wonder the people of Norway vote their country as the best!
We have a tour this afternoon, so we got off the ship to look around town this morni
Mang. Oslo is a very clean city. There were workers in town working on the streets and sidewalks, even before we got there. We found an Internet site and used some time to get updated.
Onboard our tour bus, we got a small city tour before heading out to the Viking ship museum. They found several ships “buried” on land. These long boats were used as burial containers. They would drag one of these boats up on land, load it with one the Viking Kings or Queens, and then bury the whole thing. This was sometimes what was found in those Viking mounds. They had very complete boats, as compared to the boats at Roskilde yesterday.
Our next stop was at the Kon-Tiki museum. A Norwegian, Thor Heyerdahl, set out to prove that ancient civilizations could travel in a westerly direction, in the southern hemisphere. This, of course, goes along with some of our Book of Mormon stories which say that the islands of the South Pacific were populated by people from the Americas.
So Thor and his crew sailed the Kon-Tiki from South America to one of the islands of the South Pacific (in a westerly direction). He made another sailing in the Ra II from Africa to the Caribbean (also westerly).
Anyway, they had his actual boats there in the museum. The Kon-Tiki boat, made out of balsa wood, and Ra II, made out of reeds (or is it the other way around?) were both there. Kind of interesting!
Our last stop of the tour was to Oslo’s Frogner Park. Norway’s most famous sculptor was Gustav Vigeland. The city made a deal with him to display all of his works in a city park and in return they provided a workshop for him on the site. Most all of his statues are nudes showing the circle of life—babies-teens-adults-seniors.
His story was presented in several different venues. There were statues on a bridge, statues on the four corners of a fountain, statues carved out of a single stone in the form of a huge monolith, bronze plaques lining a fountain, and so on. Hmmm…interesting.
There might be a website where you can view his sculptures.
Right next to our ship in dock was a fortress with a castle and Oslo’s old town. When we left the harbor, there were people everywhere watching our ship pull out of town. There were people up as high as the boat, on the fortress, watching the boat leave.
Maridee's take on Oslo: This is one of the prettiest cities and area of our entire Baltic cruise. It is green, clean and just really nice. No wonder the people of Norway vote their country as the best!
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Hey that looks like the Viking ship I made out of popsicle sticks in 5th grade.
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