Njardarheimr — Attraction in Aurland

If tourist traps are for you and you like to know more about the viking age: go here! We visited on a weekday. There were the tourists and the village people, as well as guides. For the quite high price what can you expect: throwing axes for free, shooting arrows for free, having a tour by the viking guide, looking into the houses, seeing how people may have lived. What can you not expect? Everything else, because all of it is quite expensive. Get your hair braided? 100NOK. Get a braided ribbon from silk? 600NOK.

I get the whole wanting to experience the viking age thing, but it’s sadly just too expensive. The entry fee alone is over 200 NOK. Sure, for children this is great, but if you are a student or a senior citizen you will not even get a discount. The only discounts are for children or families. And yes, this is Norway, so the prices are higher in general, but the people visiting were not Norwegians- so for them it was expensive. For the children it’s great. For you and me?

Sadly we wont be coming here again. We really liked the viking village, the...

This was the HIGHLIGHT of our trip! It’s an incredibly immersive Viking village where you can walk inside replica homes and businesses. Since we went in off season there weren’t many people working the shops but we got an incredible 1-hour tour from a very knowledgeable guide (I can’t remember his name but he did the 1 pm tour on 2/14 so thank you!)

Another worker also showed us how to use a bow and arrow and it was unbelievable! They have a great cafe and gift shop too. Plus beautiful surroundings!

It’s an...

Experienced Njardarheimr as a time traveler during the market, together with my reenactment group. What I love with the town is that it's primarily not made for the audience but for us reenactors, for us to have a way to travel back to our own time, being able to show this to the audience is a big bonus that we live for. I have seen a few complaints about the cost to enter, but remember this: Njardarheimr is not a museum, and doesn't get the govermental subsidies as museum's get, and they are still...