World Visits: Trip to Bergen Norway Wonderful Place

Bergen is the old capital and second largest city of the Norway. It is an international center of shipping, petroleum industry and sub sea technology, also the most busiest shipping port in Norway. Bergen is also consider as national hub of higher education, tourism and finance for the country. Bergen is a warm city and have mild temperature in winter while cooler in summer. The overall city view is very beautiful, but its also very busy place. As it is one of the major city of the country and most attractive for tourists the city is maximum time crowded. Lagunen Storsenter is the one of the largest shopping mall in Norway located in Bergen. There are millions of local residents and foreign tourist visit the mall every year.

Tourism is the most valuable income source for the city. The Bergen Hotels maximum full all the time so if you have to visit the city better book your hotel in advance. When the rolling stone concert held in the city all hotels were full booked several months in advance. It is considered as the main gateway city to the world famous Fjord of Norway, because of it the Bergen become one of the Europe's largest cruise ship port. In 2011, the port saw 264 cruise calls with 350,248 visitors.

The airport located located 18 kilometer away from the Bergen city center at Flesland. It serves as hub for Scandinavian airline and Norwegian air shuttle. There are flights to 20 domestic and 50 international destinations every day.