Haugesund, Norway Cruise Port - Spend the day exploring this coastal town on foot!

We are cruising the Norwegian Fjords on the Caribbean Princess. This video is about our self guided shore excursion (walk) we did while in the coastal port city of Haugesund, Norway.

HAUGESUND, Norway is Home of the Viking Kings! It is carved into the southwest of the country’s marvelous fjord coastline, between the larger cities of Stavanger and Bergen. Once home to prominent Viking kings, this pretty waterfront city is nestled between rocky mountains, silky fjords, and the brisk North Sea.

There are various options to tour the area such as hop on hop off bus $44 per person, electric trolley train, not sure of the cost, the shuttle bus to the city center $8 per person round trip and obviously shore excursions from the ship and local companies. We opted to walk the city and see all the sights at our own pace. It’s a very easy city to walk. We clocked in over 9.6 miles of walking on this day and it was all worth it! It felt good walking off the previous day's “ship meals”. One of our main sights we wanted to see was Norway’s striking obelisk national monument, Haraldshaugen, erected in 1872 to mark 1,000 years since the country’s unification. Haraldshaugen is believed to be the burial place of the country’s first king, Harald Fairhair. Here you can also see Krosshaugen and explore the coastal walk.

Our walk along the coast was greeted with several wooly animals both large and very small. Whether grazing in the lush grass, resting in the shade and chewing their cud, or strolling along on the path behind us, they brought us great enjoyment as we took in the beautiful views.

At the port we saw the DolWin epsilon platform. It is constructed by consortium partners Aibel and Seatrium as part of the DolWin5 project for their client TenneT. It sailed from Singapore marking an important milestone and showcasing the capabilities of Aibel and Seatrium in the ongoing energy transition.

The DolWin epsilon platform was transported to Aibel’s yard in Haugesund, where it arrived in the second half of December. Aibel and Hitachi Energy will install the final technical equipment, including the HVDC converter and transformers, prior to commissioning.

The DolWin epsilon platform is set to leave the yard in Haugesund next summer. Then it will be transported to its final destination in the DolWin cluster in the German North Sea. The platform will have a transmission capacity of 900 megawatts, equivalent to supplying 1.1 million households with green wind power.