Has anyone done local tours in any of the Norway/Arctic Circle ports?

[merela]

I couldn't do "search" today, so I thought I would post a new questions on northern Europe.

We are heading off on the Royal Princess in July.

These are the cities we will be visiting:

Southampton
Hellesylt
Geiranger
Trondheim
Honningsvaq
Tromso
Flaam
Vik
Bergen

Are there any local tours you would recommend or all are these cities do-able without a tour guide? I thought we would get off the port and just walk around or take local transportation into town.

Any of your experiences in those cities would be most appreciated.

Thanks.

Jennifer

9/27/03 Star Princess to Mexican Riviera
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[Andee]

Bergen is very easy to do on your own. Usually I read several travel guidesbooks (Fodors, Frommers and Rick Steves), and one of them had a self guided walking tour. T

In Flam, I arranged to take the train up and back, then went to the RR Museum.

In Geiranger, we took a shore excursiojnn (rare for us) so we could go to the top of the mountain and also tour the Fjord Museum. I don't know how we would have done that on our own.