Mystical drive to the town of Vardø, Norway's "Ultima Thule"

I decided to take a very long dead-end road in northeastern Norway, all the way along the southern edge of the Varanger Peninsula to the town of Vardø. It's the only town in mainland Norway with an actual polar climate. The drive goes along the magical E75, a highway that leads right along the fjord's edge. I stopped in the town of Vadsø and managed to gain access to the church and look around, all by myself. I also stumbled upon what looked like a couple reindeer carcasses along a beach, which I have no explanation for. Unsettling, and like being in some supernatural world beyond the Vikings, somehow.

Later I managed to find a clean and lovely beach to touch the arctic Barents Sea waters of the Varanger Fjord, and then made it to a sign welcoming me to Ultima Thule ... the end of the world, Vardø, Norway!

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