Next was the Kon-Tiki museum, documenting Thor Heyerdahl’s several voyages. There is a full-size reconstruction of Kon-Tiki, the balsa wood and bamboo raft he and 5 others sailed from Peru to Polynesia in 1947 to prove ancient peoples could have done it. Also Ra II, the papyrus reed boat used to sail across the Atlantic in 1970. There are also exhibits about Easter Island, the Galapagos, and other places Heyerdahl went.Finally, the Fram museum is about various Norwegian polar explorations (both Arctic and Antarctic. It contains the actual Fram wooden sailing ship that was used for both. It was interesting to tour the ship and to see the exhibits about the hardships of the explorers. (L note: The Fram was built so that it could be frozen into the ice and not be crushed. It worked.)
(to be continued)
