Svalbard & Lofoten

This summer we were not just occupied with FFF and Vier, but we also did some trips in Norway!
First trip was to Svalbard far far north. In fact, only 1000 km from the North Pole.
In Svalbard we spent three intensive but awesome days up there.
During our stay we rent a tent and sleeping bags and slept at the Svalbard camping, freezing cold !
On the first day we went hiking on a montain next to Longyearbyen and had a view over the area from there.
On the second day we went hinking and then on the evening on a boat trip. Of course we had guides with us all the time since you are not allowed to leave the city of Longyearbyen without a riffle because of the polar bears. The nature upthere is very different from everything we`ve seen before. On the boat trip we tried to see polar bears but unfortunately they were too far north.
Instead of polar bears we saw other wilde life like puffins, whales and a polar fox, which was pretty amazing as well! We also got friends but some really agressive birds and they almost picked Charlotte's hat!
One of the weirdest and coolest things was the midnight sun. It really messes up your day rythm to 24 hours of sun.
All in all the trip was super amazing and Svalbard's worth a trip :)

The other we did was to the Lofoten Islands. We landed in Bodø (the most depressing city in Norway we've seen) and took the ferry to Moskenes (We had our "base camp" there.). From the ferry we couldn't see Lofoten Islands because the weather was so bad. It was all cloudy rainy and foggy.
Building up the tent was a real adventure and we were all soaking wet. We really diserved the evening beer!
The next day we walked to Å (greatest city's name) 5km and checked the town. In fhe afternoon we hitchhiked to Kvalvika, an awesome bay surrounded by moutaines, 40km from Moskenes.
We hiked down and had a little lunch with Nugatti and fresh bread from traditional organic bakery of Å. Since Kvalvika was quite far away from the main street and there were no cars,  we had to walked all the 8km way back to the big road where we stood for one hour to get a ride back to Reine. Reine was nexst to Moskenes and we had to walk another 5km until we finally arrived in the camping at 22.30. With 25km of walking, this was the most tiring day of the whole summer!
On the next day we hitchhiked to Hennigsvær with a swedish american couple. They took us all the way up and we did a bit of sightseeing while driving and we stopped twice to enjoy the view and take pictures. In the end we all got a bit carsick from the narrow and curvy roads.
Hennigsvær is known to be the "Venice of the north" and we can all agree that's a very nice little village.
The nex day we went further to Svalvær with two norwegians. They were really nice and they let us leaving the backpacks in the car so we didn't have to cary them all day in Svolvær.
Svolvær is defenitely the second most depressing town in Norway but we went for a hike on the montains next to the town and we had an amazing view. From the harbor we took a Hurtigruten boat back to Bodø. The view was spectacular and we saw killer whales passing. It was a great experience :)