Start planning your dream vacation in Norway! This interactive map provides you with information about both must-visit tourist attractions in western Norway and hidden gems, which only a few locals know about. But most importantly, it will save you hours that you would have spent googling and reading different travel guides.
The interactive map of Norway is a set of more than 600 points of interest in the south and west of Norway entered into the Google My Maps app. All POI are marked with icons and divided into layers according to categories: hiking trails, waterfalls, lighthouses, churches and museums, unique accommodation, etc. In addition, all places include a short description and links to official sources of information. The map is a great help for planning a holiday to Norway for those who want to explore more than just the notoriously known tourist attractions.
Lifetime access to the interactive map of western and southern Norway costs 29.90 EUR.
The map is created in Google Maps app. In order to use it, you will need a Gmail address.
You will be able to use the map on a PC, tablet, or mobile phone. You just need to make sure that you are logged into the Gmail account you purchased the map with. For planning the trip I would recommend opening the map on a desktop PC.
You will be granted access to the map within 3 working days. Please be patient, it is not an automatic procedure and we have to fill your login data manually.
Hello, my name is Radka, and I moved to Norway in 2012 to do an exchange semester at the University of Trondheim. That decision has turned my life upside down. You see, I fell in love with Norway. First with nature, and lately with my Norwegian boyfriend, and it has been ten years since I call Norway my home.
When I created this webpage, I had no plans to write about Norway. I thought it wasn’t exotic enough, and I falsely assumed that the tourists traveling to Norway are only interested in hiking Preikestolen and Trolltunga or visiting the Lofoten islands. At that time, we lived in Trondheim, and I hadn’t even been to Trolltunga since it was quite a long drive from there. So I thought that my mother was the only person interested in my weekend trips to the mountains around Trondheim.
It turned out later that my mom didn’t read this blog. Instead, my articles (primarily written in Czech) found their way to people interested in traveling to Norway. As the community grew (for example, in my FB group Norway – Tips for Travelers), people asked me for my recommendations about hikes and exciting places. So I started offering tailor-made itineraries for trips to Norway and Iceland.
But the idea came to my mind that one day I would like to create a guidebook about traveling to Norway, where I would summarize my tips on well-known and lesser-known tourist attractions. So when we had to end our trip to South America prematurely in 2020 because of the pandemic and return to Norway, where we had neither housing nor work, I decided that it was time to implement the idea.
We spent spring, summer, and autumn 2020 traveling in southern and western Norway, and even though we have been touring Norway many times, we still came across new and new exciting places that formed the basis of this map.
I made the map primarily for my boyfriend and me to map the possibilities of trips around my boyfriend’s cottage, where we settled after returning to Norway from the quarantine in Argentina. But the family and friends to whom we showed the map were very excited to have it too, so we decided that it would be a shame to keep it to ourselves.
I hope you will like the map and that it will be a great help for you for planning trips in Norway, whether you come from abroad for a vacation or you live in Norway, and you are planning a weekend getaway.
