Photo: Martin Håndlykken / Visitnorway.com
Photo: Magnus Skrede – visitBergen.com
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LOCAL F ESTIVALS Why not supplement your voyage with a few peculiarly Norwegian festivals.
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Our stopovers sometimes coincide with local festivals, of which Norway has some unique examples: there’s the Tahiti Festival, an outdoor opera called Donna Bacalao and the world’s biggest herring feast. Local communities may also organise weekend “welcome festivals” when the historical ship Christian Radich arrives.
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