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Norway
Oslo is a capital that sits at the head of a fjord with forest on three sides, where you can walk on the roof of an opera house, ride the metro to a ski jump and take an electric boat out among the islands, all in the same day. This guide books Oslo properly — MUNCH, the thirteen-storey museum on the Bjørvika waterfront with the world's largest collection of Edvard Munch; the National Museum, where the 1893 painted version of The Scream hangs in a room of his greatest works; the Nobel Peace Center by City Hall; a silent electric cruise on the Oslofjord; a guided tour that strings together Holmenkollen, Vigeland and the Bygdøy museums; The Viking Planet while the old Viking Ship Museum is closed for rebuilding; and the Oslo Pass that makes the museum days add up — and pairs it with the free sights that make the city: the marble roof of the Opera House, the two hundred sculptures of Vigeland Park and the medieval walls of Akershus Fortress. Then it matches you to the right hotel, from an art-filled waterfront splurge on Tjuvholmen to a shipping-line headquarters by the station, a 1918 theatre, an eco-hotel beside the Mathallen food hall and a smart self-service budget base, because in a city this walkable, where you sleep decides how much of it you see on foot.
