So is “white nights” in Norway. Photo

A country with incredible nature.

Precise astronomical definition of “white nights” does not exist. For example, this can be understood as a phenomenon, when the whole night is a period of continuous twilight from sunset to sunrise.

Photos and text by Ilya Stepanov

1. Resemble, my partner and started on bicycles in the Norwegian Alt and move towards the Lofoten Islands.

2. Ride along on a bike and in sight sometimes 2-3 of these falls! In any other country, each would be considered a landmark, and then… In the end, they almost get used to it and don’t grab the camera every time.

3. Our path goes almost all the way along the coastline, skirting the infinite fancy of the Peninsula and bays. So that problems with the choice of location for bus stops, for example, for lunch does not arise. Just drove off the road, went on shore, and almost everywhere a great view. Water can collect right there, but we preferred from streams and springs.

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5. Sickly help in our diet of course, there were berries and mushrooms. Cloudberry, I had enough for a lifetime.

6. Fungi, mainly white and aspen, grow … just like mushrooms. Looking for them is not necessary. Just go see five bright hats in the grass, is cut. For dinner you can cook mushroom soup.

7. The road is almost empty, especially in the evening. And indeed in the North of Norway no traffic, almost half of all transport — travel campers, mobile homes.

8. Here is one such comprovado. Arrived at a beautiful place, put up a tent, enjoying the view.

9. The deer met in the first days only, then they disappeared.

10. Small Norwegian towns. No more than a dozen houses are buried in the thickets of willow-herb. Remembered why we don’t like in the cities the grass and fallen leaves, I consider them rubbish, spend a lot of money to mow, to destroy, to burn. So stupid, I think.

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13. Norwegian cemetery. Solid and modest.

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16. Rainbow — it’s something fantastic!

17. And still there are many beacons. As without them, because the coastline is very indented, and the mists and poor visibility for Norway — almost the norm.

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19. Often, to keep up with the schedule, we went at night. If you can call it a night…

20. The sun goes below the horizon still illuminates the low clouds, the light from which allows quite comfortable to move around on the bike. Lights, mostly lit only in tunnels.

21. Always had to see the tide. Once I even got lucky, at low tide, caught had not managed to sail fish. And a lot of shells, snails.

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24. As it is not typical for Norway — abandoned in the woods car. Usually even here in the woods perfect order.

25. Time to find a place to sleep. And soon it is close to a small bird Bazaar, which they, the birds, arranged on an old wooden pier.

26. All night we listened to loud hubbub and the cries of seagulls, apparently, they are white nights also does not give rest.

27. Stood nearby civilian house, but the owners were not.

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