Travel Journal Scandinavia 2 Kon-Tiki

  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.)
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Travel Journal Scandinavia

Slept a little later (gotta catch up sometime). Breakfast was included with the room—pretty good buffet selection. Then we took the tram to the waterfront and the ferry to Bygdøy peninsula, where we went to three museums.
  The Viking Ship museum has 3 wooden Viking ships that date from about 900 AD when they were used as burial vessels. They were found and dug up in the last 150 years, and are in varying states of decomposition. A couple were pretty well preserved; a third, not so much. There are also some artifacts discovered with them—a wagon, a few sledges, barrels, daily tools and utensils. The gold and silver were long since stolen. Preserving the wooden ships and artifacts is an ongoing dilemma. Pretty interesting.
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Lublana 2

Lublana/ Ljubljana
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Lublana

Lublana/ Ljubljana

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Brašov, Romunija

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Paris, France

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Žledene Murgle

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