The 10 Best Things to do Good for Kids in Telemark, Eastern Norway

The Visitor Centre, Hardangervidda National Park has a large award-winning interactive exhibition about the wild reindeer and the nature of Hardangervidda in 10 languages. In addition, we offer a cinema with several movies, a cafe with a panoramic view, hiking-trail with nature app in 10 languages and guided tours of varying length.

Selstali seter er en ekte seter som gjennom generasjoner har holdt tradisjonen ved like.Her lever vi i ett med naturen og dyrene.Her har vi kuer, høner, griser, ender, koppelam, kaniner.Vi foredler all melken her pa gammelt vis. Lager ost, kinner smør, koker prim som du kan ta med deg hjem i sma beger eller nyte et godt maltid mat her. Flotte tur og fiskemuligheter. Hytteutleie.

Welcome to Skien Sports and Activity Park. We offer a multitude of opportunities all in one place – all year round you can experience summer and winter, combine training sessions with wellness, experience a sense of achievement and enjoy good food with friends. Do you love water? If so, there is plenty for you to look forward to when visiting us. Here you can take the plunge, climb, swim, dive and slide. And if you need a break, you can enjoy one of our comfortable sunbeds together with something tasty and refreshing from the café!

Dog sledding is dreaming of true wilderness adventures far from civilization. Behind the team, on the sled, only yourself, your loyal four-legged friends and mountain silence and quiet - nothing else. Haukeli Husky offers guided dog sled adventures at the borders of Hardangervidda. Our goal is to give people genuine wilderness experiences; experiences they can not easily find elsewhere. Welcome!

To experience the rich cultural heritage and traditions of West Telemark, West Telemark MuseumEidsborg is an excellent place to start. The museum consists of a collection of more than 30 buildings, an open air museum with Norway’s oldest pagan wooden building from 1167, the famous Eidsborg stave church dated back to the 13th century and a new, modern museum building with several exhibitions. There are many blockhouse constructions among the buildings at the museum, a building technique still in use. The museum is situated by R45 next to Eidsborg stave church in the beautiful and dramatic landscape of Tokke. In the modern museum building, opened in 2012, there are magnificent exhibitions telling the history of the folk art and culture of Western Telemark. There are collections of beautiful pieces of traditional art on display like rosepainting, woodwork, knives, silver and textiles.

Vradal Skisenter boasts a chairlift and in addition 4 lifts. 15 km slopes. Separate downhill slope. Skiing school, ski shop, hire of skis, and snowboards, snowboard park, 2 resturants, and lots of new cabins and apartments are beeing built at the moment! Vradal features Telemark's biggest snow cannon facilities!

Gaustatoppen, which many claim to be the most beautiful mountain in Norway, towers majestically above the town of Rjukan at an altitude of 1,883 metres. Around 30,000 people make the trip up to the summit every year to enjoy the fantastic views from the top. On a clear day, you can see all the way south to the coast and east to Sweden. You can see one sixth of Norway from here. No matter what the weather is like, you can still buy a cup of coffee, waffles and food at the Tourist Association's 100-year-old stone cabin on the summit. You can pick your own stone from the piles around the summit and get it stamped to prove that you climbed the mountain. A new alpine slope down Gaustatoppen is planned, but this is no new idea. Had it not been for the Second World War, the alpine disciplines at the 1940 World Championships would have been arranged here.

The Ryesvei is an exciting zig-zag path located in the terrain below the Krossobanen Cableway. This outstanding track is open for sledgeriding. The distance from the upper station Gvepseborg down to Krosso is 3851 meters, the difference in altitude approx. 500 meters and it winds down through a total of 21 curves. This makes it the longest sledge-hill (with lift) in Norway.