Episode 4 - A Mystery Adventure
The historic Telemark Canal takes Arne, Frida, and Stig deep into the interior of Norway, offering a journey back in time. In today’s episode, they explore the region's hospitality and delve into stories of heavy water and the Second World War. To cap it off, they trek through a mountain to reach the summit of Telemark. Frida prepares some intriguing treats, while Stig crafts a dry martini to celebrate this unique region of Norway.
PLACES TO STAY
Rjukan Admini Hotel
The historic Rjukan Admini Hotel boasts one of the county’s most distinctive offerings in terms of accommodation, conferences and function rooms. The hotel is part of the great industrial narrative that saw the Rjukan–Notodden Industrial Heritage Site inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 2015.
Dalen Hotel
Inspired by stave churches and the Viking Age, the Dalen hotel was introduced to the world in 1894. The hotel became known throughout Europe. You can expect the same wonderful service as famous travellers before you, like King Oscar, Emperor Wilhelm of Germany and King Leopold II of Belgium
Vidsyn Midjås
A mountain farms really at the very top where farm couple Malin and Ola Midjås have built unbeatable rooms with a an amazing view among mountains and the narrow valley. A great place for a quite and romantic stay.
Gaustadblikk Resort
A modern cosy hotel in the middle of the mountain. Elegant and stylish with a lot of emphasis on tasty local specialities. Stay in comfort after great adventures in surroundings with a lot to offer summer and winter.
PLACES TO VISIT
Nutheim – art, food and history
Nutheim Gjestgiveri is a small family-run wooden hotel in Telemark. The hotel has been in the family since 1917 and is still operational as of this day. Art and culture are prioritized within our halls, because it was here in Nutheim many of our most prominent artists have come for inspiration for decades. Come and enjoy our beautiful surroundings for rest or inspiration.
Gaustadbanen – a funicular inside the mountain
Gaustabanen, a railway built inside the might Gaustadtoppen mountain, as a Nato project in 1959. On the top here was a large radar station,
The railroad is steep, up to 47 degrees and only opened for tourists as late as 2010.
Rjukan and Vemork
The town of Rjukan rose in a few years thanks to the taming of the waterfalls building industry history on hydropower. It is also the site for one of the most important sabotage operations during world war two, where local young men from the resistance successfully deprived Nazi-Germany in getting heavy water for atomic bombs.
Henrik Ibsen – on the Telemark Canal
The Telemark Canal was carved into the mountain terrain well more than 100 years ago, and by the opening in 1892 it was labelled “the 8th wonder of the world” by Europeans.
Go on the historic and newly renovated MS Henrik Ibsen on a Norwegian version of the Orient Express.
