Page 11 - Martin Downs Bulletin - November '20

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Travel from page 10 These hearty people track their reindeer herds across shaped location marker and two unique sculptural works.
four countries and pay little attention to territorial One of these pieces is called Children of the World –
came by ship and scaled a path up the sheared face of the boundaries. The Lapps, or Sami people as they prefer to this work by Eva Rybakken features the sculpture of a
Cape. During the summer months the sun never sets at call themselves, trace their heritage back more than 8,000 mother and child facing north as the child points to seven
the Cape; instead it forms an orange ball on the horizon years. There are approximately 40,000 of these people bronze and stone wheel-like disks. These disks were
at midnight. It is from this event that the Cape gets its in all with about half of them to be found in Norway. sculpted by children from seven different lands, aged
name, “Land of the Midnight Sun.” Because of their self-imposed isolation and lifestyle, they between 8 and 12, who visited the Cape in 1988. They
The Laplanders, with their unique heavily embroidered have been able to conserve their rich culture and many depict Norway as seen through the eyes of a child.
four corner hats, inhabit the northern part of Norway. unique traditions, such as the Sami language. On the other end of the nation is the business center and
Less than a century capital of Oslo. Its skyline is dominated by the City Hall
ago, the Lapps imported at the end of the harbor. The building’s interior walls are
reindeer from the covered with murals and it even contains an art collection.
mainland to Mageroya, The main travel axis of the city runs parallel to the end
the island off the North of the harbor and behind the City Hall, with the Royal
Cape. The animals now Palace on one end and the Parliament building on the
graze openly on the sparse other. Numerous museums proudly display the Norwegian
vegetation, and seem to be history from before the time of the Vikings to the present.
the only life on the barren There is even a “Resistance” museum that houses the
rock with the exception of relics of the Norwegian resistance movement during
tourists. The North Cape World War II, when the country was occupied by the
The Parliament of Norway Building, in Oslo, is the seat for the supreme legislature of Norway, is marked by a visitor’s Germans. The city has built a heritage museum in a large
also known as the Storting. It was designed by Swedish architect Emil Victor Langlet. center as well as a globe- parklike setting that also boasts various period structures
from all over Norway, which have been dismantled and
reassembled on the site.
*Source for population of Norway is CIA World
Factbook (July 2020 estimate)
Don Kiselewski writes from his personal experiences,
having traveled in 122 countries and cruised the oceans,
seas and rivers of the world. Palm Beach Gardens Travel
Leaders, his family owned and operated agency, is
located at Mirasol Town Square, 11360 North Jog Road,
Building A, Suite 102-6, Palm Beach Gardens. The agency
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Photos by Don Kiselewski
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