Top 10 Things to do in Rjukan, Eastern Norway

Telemark Opplevelser would like to offer you the opportunity to see and enjoy the mountain from a different perspective. By avoiding the mainstream going up the most common route, we will guide you via an alternative route up the NW ridge. After gaining some altitude and scrambling some boulders we will get to the ridge. By following the ridge the summit will be in range after some nice passages and scaling boulders. With 1692 meter on one side and 962 on the other makes this trip an exciting and memorable one. During our tour there will be some scrambling and very easy climbing, nothing that will not be in your ability to fulfil.

Amazing kayaktours in the stunning nature, around the beautiful historical town of Rjukan with experienced kayak guides!

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.

Hike/climb with hand-picked local guides. We help you: - Join small groups - Book with fully qualified, regularly inspected and ethically paid guides - Explore wild mountains!

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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.

Rjukan Tourist Office is centrally situated in the city of Rjukan. Information about accommodations, activities and arrangements in the community and the surroundings, and time-schedules for public transportation in Norway. Sale of souvenirs, postcards, stamps, maps, fishing cards, DNT-memberships, hotel passes and so on. DNT-keys. Booking of different activities. Sale of tickets to arrangements. Guide services.

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.

Gaustabanen, the cable car inside Gaustatoppen mountain has been a well-kept secret. Gaustabanen consists of a battery driven car on a cable that carries passengers approximately 860 metres horizontally up inside the mountain. Right in the centre of the mountain there is a station, with an angled shuttle line of 1040 metres that rises to 1800 metres above sea level. From the top, there is an exit to the so-called Tuddalstippen, situated right under the Gaustatoppen Tourist Cabin.