• Take a ‘Norway in a Nutshell' tour from Bergen (website: www.norwaynutshell.com). You can choose to spend between one and three days on the trip, which takes in scenic rail and bus journeys as well as cruises along Norway's best fjords.

• Go skiing - Norway has thousands of kilometres of marked trails, plus the 1994 Winter Olympics complex at Lillehammer (website: www.lillehammerturist.no) is just a couple of hours north of Oslo by road.

• Experience the midnight sun at the North Cape in the far Arctic - and enjoy the coastline from the comfort of the Coastal Express cruise liner (website: www.hurtigruten.com), which calls at a number of ports on the voyage north.

• Take a cablecar or funicular railway ride to the summit of one of the seven mountains surrounding the former Hanseatic port of Bergen (website: www.visitbergen.com), with its UNESCO World Heritage Site-designated historic wooden wharfside buildings.

• Pay a visit to the world's most northerly brewery, university and cathedral, and revel in the scenic surroundings of Tromsø, Norway's most northerly city (website: www.destinasjontromso.no), only a two-hour flight from Oslo.

• Take a hike on Jostedalsbreen, mainland Europe's largest glacier, and centrepiece of a large national park (website: www.jostedal.com), offering other activities such as mountain kayaking and the Glacier Bus.

• Experience traditional Norwegian folk culture, music, dance and food at regular summer events in the Norske Folkemuseum (website: www.norskfolke.museum.no), an open-air collection of historic buildings on Bygdøy Island outside Oslo.

• Enjoy the annual festival celebrating Christianity's arrival in Norway in 1030 at Stiklestad, a little over two hours' drive northwest from Trondheim. Centrepiece of the July event is the St Olav Drama, an open-air recreation of events (website: www.stiklestad.no).

• Get away from it all and spend a few days in a lakeside mountain hytte, or cabin, enjoying fishing and nature walks. But beware of elk and other large wildlife (website: www.novasol.com).

• Learn about the culture of the semi-nomadic Sami people of Norway's northern Lapland at the new Varjjat Sámi Musea (website: www.varjjat.org) at Varangerbotn in eastern Finnmark. Or stay in a Sami tepee on an organised tour of Lapland (website: www.sami-siida.no).

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