Top 10 Things to do Good for Kids in Buskerud, Eastern Norway

Serious Fun offers unique nature experiences! Enjoy the amazing Numedallagen-river that gives you a true white water rafting experience. We offer mini white water rafting from 8-12 years, super white water rafting from 12 years and extreme white water rafting from 15 years of age. Welcome!

We provide a wide variety of outdoor activities, such as whitewater rafting, riverboard, gokart, abseiling, powerturn, carslalom, and snowmobiling. For business groups, stag parties, smaller and bigger groups and families.

NB! Season is from Christmas to Easter! Thanks :) Looking for an outstanding experience? Join us, dog sledding in Geilo! We offer short trips from 30 minutes and up to multiple day tours. Our basecamp, is located in Skurdalen, 14 km from downtown Geilo. Here its just us and the dogs, in beautiful and peaceful nature. With our guides and four-legged friends, you can enjoy great outdoor adventures, cooking in the wild, tenting and light a bonfire. Take your family, your business or your friends. There are no limitations in terms of age or physical condition. The activity is also suitable for people with a handicap that would like to get out in nature. We reserve the right to that weather and wind can make it necessary to change the route - this gives no right to refund.

Geilo Husky offers you a taste of doglife in Norway.We offer everything from 5 kilometer trip, to several day trips, and everything in between. A uniqe experience for the whole Family! You get to drive your own sled with six or more dogs in front. You also get a taste of Norway by the fireplace after your trip - there is always a lot to talk about after this experience!

The houses at Langedrag are situated in an area of outstanding natural beauty. They look like fairytale castles, 1000 metres above sea level with a breathtaking view over mountains and lakes. Eva and Edvin K. Thorson started building the farm in 1978. They wanted to realise their dream of a farm where visitors could experience nature and animals at a closer range than anywhere else. ‘In awe of life’ is the motto at Langedrag. In the Nature Park you can find animals like reindeer, mouflon sheep, mountain fox, horses, goats, wild boars and lynxes. Few other places in the world would let you enter the wolf enclosure, like you can at Langedrag. Every Thursday and Friday in summer you can accompany us on a trip to our summer farm in the mountains. At the farm we make crisp bread on traditional hot plates and tell the stories of the area and its people.

Blaafarvevaerket, or the Royal Cobalt Works of Modum was established in 1773 for the extraction of cobalt ore from the local mines in the surrounding hills. Today Blaafarvevaerket is one of Norways best known tourist attractions offering historical insight into the extraction and production of cobalt, guided tours of the mines and surrounding area and annual art exhibitions. Other attractions at the museum are the Theodor Kittelsen museum. The artist that created the troll as we know it! Children's Farm, several shops and eateries makes us a complete destination for all travellers. The museum and surrounding area is a popular tourist destination in central Eastern Norway with the Vikersund Ski Flying Arena, the worlds largest, and several other destinations for active tourists near by.

The Norwegian Mining Museum including The Silves Mines collection of native silver, Norwegian minerals and miningindustry, Kongsberg skiing history, the coin and medal collection and the Kongsberg industry cololection are five exhibitions located under one roof in the city centre of Kongsberg. One ticket will give you access to all five museums. The Norwegian Mining Museum offers you the history of the Silver Mines and the worlds largest and most precious display of native silver. The Skimuseum has an astonishing collection consisting of over 5000 trophys. The Royal Mint Museum gives you an insight of the citys coin production from its beginning up until today. The museum of arms and weapons opened the year 2000 and conveys the industrial history of Kongsberg starting 1814. The Silvermines Join a train ride that takes you 342 meters below the surface and 2,3 km into the mountain. Inside the King’s mine there is a guided tour through stopes, adits and shafts. A mine elevator built in 1881 (“Fahrkunst”), is just one of many things to see on this tour, which takes 1,5 hours. The temperature is 6°C, so please dress warm! Children under 3 years are not permitted to entre the Silvermines.

The manor house at Gulskogen was erected in the Louis XVI style in 1804. The house contains the original furnishings that belonged to several generations of the Arbo family. The painter Peter Nikolai Arbo had his childhood here, and there are several paintings made by him in the main building. The Gulskogen Park is patterned after an 18th Century European model. Especialy the long alley of lime is quite impressing. The maze in the park is the only one of its kind in Norway. Peacocks and other animals wander freely around the formal garden.

Kjosterudjuvet is a 10.000 year old, spectacular, ravine only 10 minutes from Drammen centre. The ravine is 1300meters long and the stone walls are more than 60meters high. A more exiting excursion is hard to find!