Whooo! This was a very good day! Oslo City Bus Tour! For Free!

We started out the day at Knutepunketet, pronounced “ka-noo-ta-poonk-ta”, the International Student Reception House (Lucy Smiths Hus).

Our first stop of the say was to Holmenkollen! This is in the Northwest and is where the Olympic ski jump and ski jump simulator are located at. This place was simply enormous and the ski jump itself was steep and incredible to look at with a fresh layer of snow on it.

Next stop, Vigelandsparken, also known as the Vigeland Sculpture Park. This was a large park located in the Majorstuen area, we were dropped off at the back of the park and made our way through to the front.

This park is the world’d largest sculpture park made by Gustav Vigeland with more than 200 scultpures in bronze, granite, and wrought iron. This park was completed between 1939 and 1949.

This is a beautiful park filled with statues of naked people in various stages of life and in various forms of emotion: anger, betrayal, happiness, excitement, etc.

The most famous sculpture being the “angry baby”. I have more park pictures on my camera which I will upload in the gallery section.

Our third and final stop was at Akershus Fortress, which is still used as a military base/outpost today, but is a waterside fortress and former prison. This is located at the edge of the water at the apex of the Oslo Fjord.