Air to Alta
It takes about six hours to drive to Alta, more if you stop and eat, miss the car-barge or take pics. On a straight highway it would only take about two hours to drive from Tromsø to Alta, but because Norway is built by fjords and mountains, the road winds in and out, up and down, adding the extra four hours. The tour is very beautiful, passing through sleepy towns and untamed landscape but driving over the mountains in November is very icy and cold. Especially when you have two kids under two, flying is the better option.
It takes only 40mins to fly from Tromsø to Alta in a little propeller plane – just short enough before the kids go crazy. The view is certainly humbling. In the Summer the mountains hide aqua lakes and the Winter brings out wonderful blues. In the picture above, I was lucky enough to capture the last direct sunlight on the mountains for the year.
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In Norway, there are still Lefse recipes around from the 1630s! This is supposedly the traditional and original Hardanger recipe used:
The further ‘out of the way’ you go the more common it is to see folk cottages standing by the side of roads, along fjords or in a thicket of trees, minding their own business. 
The bunad is a traditional Norwegian costume worn by both men and women. It can either come from established rural traditions or have a more modern design inspired by historical patterns and cuts.
Today herding reindeer is synonymous with the Sami culture. It is recently thought that the Vikings were the first people to herd reindeer.
Many Norwegians know what they are doing when they pick wild mushrooms. This knowledge is passed down the family during mushroom hunting trips. The hard-core mushroom hunters go into the mountain wilderness for days to get the best finds.
Oh, yes! Gorgeous, just like I remember it, even during “mørketida”.