The Norwegian Constitution was signed on Eidsvoll May 17th 1814 and since then May 17th is celebrated as a national holiday in modern Norway. The travelers whose visit to Norway coincides with May 17th can make maximum use of the hospitality offered by the Norway hotels to witness the lovely parades where people dress in their best national costumes while singing and waving flags through the streets. The North of Norway is known as The Land of the Midnight Sun where the sun does not set between the middle of May and end of July. The fact that most travelers should not while planning a tour of Norway is that conversely the sun does not rise between the middle of November and the end of January. The Norwegian economy is rated quite highly in the world. The oil and gas fields of the North Sea hold the corner stone of the Norwegian economy. Traditionally the country is a fishing nation from where approximately 90 per cent of its catch is exported. The visitors will find it quite interesting to get an insight on fish farming on their tour of Norway which is a growing sector. Moreover, Norway is fast becoming the worlds leading producer of Salmon.

The international travelers accustomed to sophisticated travel and amenities can check into leading luxury hotels in Norway. There are many old stone churches which were built nearly a thousand years ago and hold fascination for the visitors of today. The folk museums in Oslo and Lillehammer are areas of interest to the tourists. One of the finest preserved monuments of the medieval period is the excavated Viking ships on display in the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo. The important cathedrals of interest to visitors are the Nidarosdomen Cathedral in Trondheim, the Cathedral in Staveanger and Mariakirken in Bergen. Norway is abundantly endowed with rock carvings, some with whose figures have been consentrated. Though these carvings are to be found all over Norway, the most impressive ones are to be found in Alta in the northernmost province of Finnmark. These rock carvings are the oldest evidence of human inhabitants in Norway. Norway is also the cradle of Skiing as skiing has supposedly originated in Norway. Norway hotels see a huge influx of tourists at the time of the annual ski festival at Holmenkollen in Oslo when many participants take part and are witnessed by thousands of spectators.

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