American Reacts to AMAZING Things to do in Bergen, Norway
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Today I am going to react and learn about the second biggest city in Norway, Bergen. Like most Americans I have never heard of Bergen so I have absolutely no idea what to expect, which is of course how I like it. I am also excited to react to Bergen from my American perspective because this video is going to show cool things to do in the city, not just explain the locations and landmarks. If you enjoy my reaction feel free to leave a like, comment, or subscribe for more videos like this!
Yes Tyler, it's real 😆 I'm from Germany and I visited Bergen twice, last time this year in June. It's a lovely place, Norway in general is beautiful. Greetings from Germany!
Where have you been so far in Norway?
Considered going in a RV?
A one or two month RV trip through the country gives you a opportunity to explore the country freely and also keep your expenses down.
@@Luredreier Yes, but also consider that roads in rural Norway isn`t really buildt for big RV`s. They are mostly hated by other trafficants for slowing down traffic.
Germany is pretty damn beautiful too.
Bergen is my hometown! It's true that things are fairly expensive here but there is also a lot to see and do. The video you reacted to mentioned Mount Fløyen but there are also six other mountains surrounding Bergen, with Mount Ulriken being the highest of them at 643 m (2,110 ft), it has a cable gondola going up to the top and back down again and there are also stairs built by sherpas that take you to the top as well. The view from Mount Ulriken is amazing, dare I say even better than the view from Mount Fløyen. When you're on top of Mount Ulriken, you see the entire Bergen valley from north to south and it's really impressive. There's also a restaurant and a souvenir shop on top of the mountain, again with stiff prices but still worth mentioning.
I actually work with the Ulriken cable gondola (driving it), and I can absolutely wouch for the view being fucking amazing!
Thanks for the extra insight Didrick, it seems like an incredible place
Should have mentioned buekorps
Same here man, love our City
The highest Mountain in Bergen Is actually 988m AMSL and Called Gullfjellet
Fulton fish marked in New York, The Foley Fish Company in Boston, fish markets in Maine. I'm norwegian, but even I know that your country has fish markets. USA has a lot of bad stuff, but it also has a lot of cool and wonderful things. It's a land of great contrasts. I really like your videos about Norway, Tyler. I'm a norwegian after all. And we just go wild if a forreigner mention our country😁 I guess it's because we feel a bit insignificant here far to the north. But you really should know your own country too. It's not all doom and gloom. It's a diverse, great country with lots of wonderful people. And it will be even better when you start to vote for politicians who care more about people than money, and you, the people, starts to care about each other. Keep up the good work with your learning and react a bit to all your video comments 🤓
We gotta find those politicians first!!😂😝
I concur. I am Norwegian too and never been to the US. USA has everything except maybe fjords. The first potential fish markets that came to my mind were in Louisiana and Mississippi. The USA has so much great nature, it is unbelievable. Just follow the Rockies and the national parks and national forrests. The state of New York and Niagara Falls. Massachussets. The East coast all way to Canada. Smokey Mountains, Olympic National Park in the state Washington, Grand Canyon, Yosemite and Yellowstone + reservoirs.
10:35 The room is called Håkonshallen and was used as the royal hall of King Håkon Håkonsson in the mid 1200s while at the time Bergen was the royal seat of Norway, in modern years it's been used for ceremonies and arrangements of various sorts anywhere from royal dinners to concerts and diploma ceremonies for students.
9:10 Fort Bergenhus is a military fort that used to protect the city..
The fort is from the 1100s, and the oldest surviving building on the grounds is from 1270 and was expanded in the 1500s. This was the the building under renovation in the video.
It's also worth noting that the dining hall section is used for state dinners.
Tyler, we're looking forward to you coming over to make your own videos. Getting some local assistance would be easy, I'm sure a whole bunch of us would be happy to help.
Yeah, that's one thing I love.
That we enjoy crowdsourcing TH-camrs visiting us. ;-)
It's a *little* bit narcissistic perhaps.
But there's a reason why there's so many people going on a RV trip around Norway these days.
They save up some themselves, but we enjoy spitting in some ourselves.
They seem to mostly be two people going at once though, perhaps that just fits that format better?
I don't know...
@@Luredreier "spytte i litt" = "chip in a bit of money".
In my opinion, reindeer meat is the best meat, by far! :D
I live in Bergen, and there is still much more to the city that I love. :)
I live in Bergen the people imo is the best part of living here its very multicultural people are helpful, and to be honest its a great place to party and just enjoy life. We have a saying here in Bergen: i'm not from Norway i'm from Bergen.
We even had a skit some years ago where we blast ourselves away from the rest of Norway and become an independent nation (VERY funny)
The best about the Amercians are their enthusiasm and positivety. Great stuff.
Proud to be from Bergen!
Yes, we are very patriotic.
❤️❤️❤️
That Sossage kiosk Tre Kroner is so famous that if you are in Bergen it is maybe one of the places you just have to go 🙂
Yes, its wellknown all over the wourld...
So many turists have been there...
fond memories of this kiosk, and Im glad its still running
Here's the thing about Norwegian. There are so many dialects that however you pronounce something, it's probably right somewhere. Your "Bergen" is very american, but also very in line with what we call it over here in the eastern part of Norway. 100% acceptable! (likely to everyone in Norway, but I won't speak for them)
I pronounce it differently depending on which language I speak,adhering to the phonetics of the language.
It is very interesting from a Norwegian standpoint to see what other people think about our country
Thanks Tyler! For your reactions to Bergen. One of the most amazing cities in Europe! 👍
Fun facts:
The ferry you see at 6:40 is 100% electric and won an international award for design. It's also easier to enjoy the trip without all the engine noise, so that's a bonus.
An important difference between a river and a fjord is that a fjord has saltwater (since it is a part of the ocean, but a river is fresh water. :)
Hi Tyler ! I am living in Oslo (Aker Brygge) but I also have a lot of family in Bergen, where i go to visit every year. I❤️ both cities ! Thanks a lot for making all your videos about my beloved country! 👌😊💖🇧🇻
I love Bergen, a lot of it has to do with how it never feels opressive by the man made structures. You don't have to go far before it allows you a breather as it opens up to a park, a lake, a plaza, the fjord or trails up one of the 7 mountains surrounding it.
Downside is, it rains like you wouldn't believe.
I'm grew up where you showed the boat scene early in the video. That orange house is a small supermarket and you can tank your boat there. That hole area is just a gem of a place. A very nice place to grow up an live.
lived in Bergen for 6 years while being a student. Great city, love it.
Edit: Oh and if you want something special for dinner, go to Voss (my hometown, 100km away from Bergen) and get yourself smalahove at a restaurant.
Hi, I live in Bergen, moved here in the early 90s. Born in Storkmarknes, Vesterålen Lofoten area in northern Norway. You will enjoy watching videos from this area in the north. Love the way you comment, nice and respectful, can't wait to see more videos from you. You are welcome to Norway, to Bergen, you will be taken care of and you will have good experiences. I also live part of the year in Fortaleza Brazil, in my paid 3 months vacation, he he. Would you like some recommendations of videos about Norway? You have a lot left to see. Roy
Vesterålen and Lofoten will blow his mind! I've never been there, but it's definitely on my bucket list. I'm originally from Oslo, but I have lived in Hedmark for 22 years. We have a lot of beautiful areas here, too, but it's definitely not wild and rugged like it is up in Northern Norway.
I also moved here in the 90s from NYC with my parents:)
Hey Tyler I think you would really enjoy checking out the train that goes from Oslo to Bergen, its called the "Bergensbanen" and it is said to be among the most beautiful train rides in the galaxy
Oh hun! The fjords are definitely more than a beautiful view!❤️
The fish from them sustained us for centuries.
Today they offer numerous recreational activities as well!
Yeey my hometown🥰 its very cool hippieish and a lot of culture , music and awsomme peeps💗
Can confirm;)
I’ve been there and booked to go back in 2023 🎉 it is beautiful ❤ the Norwegian fjords are absolutely stunning 😍 something you never forget but want to see more of 🇳🇴
Yay! I was hoping you'd do a video on Bergen 😁
Surprised he didn't mention the Edvard Grieg Museum Troldhaugen. It's where the composer behind Hall of the Mountain King and Morning Mood lived, both of which i can guarantee you've heard
Its outside walking distance of the old medieval city which is where the tourists go.
Love this video. I have grown up in the city senter of Bergen and noe live in the mountains above the city now. The night life and music scene in Bergen is also super nice!
It is very interesting to hear your comments and thoughts about these videos about Norway. I have to say; you are very positiv.
From Bergen here, come visit folks it's plenty of stuff to do and experience👌
Bergen is also one of the big concert cities in the country, lots of big artists names have performed here
who is from Norway 🇳🇴 and love to watch this 🤗
I moved here as a kid but Im more Norwegian than American now.
Do check out more amazing Norwegian cities. Me as a Norwegian can particularly recommend Tromsø in the North. Then there's Trondheim and Stavanger. There's also towns further north than Tromso, like Hammerfest and Alta, although, they're pretty small.
Tyler your pronounciation of Bergen is just fine, in Bergen they say it with the french r, almost everywhere else we roll the r. Oslo is pronounced Ochlo. Thanks for posting, you are cery entertaining 🇧🇻
People from Oslo say oschlo, but elsewhere they use the "correct" pronounciation oslo. I am from Bergen but moved to Oslo, by the way. I will never say oschlo!🤣
You may say sjino, but it is still not correct, until some generations later, unfortunately. This was the same with oscho at some time in history.
Bergen is beautiful. It can be rainy, but that's a part of the Norwegian charm. Without the rain, Norway wouldn't have fresh air and fauna.
I like your sophisticated reaction videos, and something tells me you are not as average as you say. But what do I know about it?
I also see your reaction in the UK channel you run parallel with this. Recommend everyone to look it up and give it a try.
*A canyon* is made by a large river, and is *V* shaped, as the river gradually carved itself downwards.
*A fjord* is made by the enormous weight and pressure of a glacier and is *U* shaped, as it gradually retracted through the underlaying river canyons the melting water made.
- And the reindeer hotdog is *65 kr* - ...practically 6.5 $ USD. so NOT 2$ It's still worth it though.
Yes Norwegians are in general good in english. The main reason is of course school, but nothing is dubbed. So "anything" on NETFLIX is in its original language with Norwegian subtexts. We also play games and learn english that way. And of course; its a multicultural country.
*And finally:* Do you travel to Bergen, or should you go to Oslo?
Bergen. And I will say that over and over again.
Just because Oslo is the capital, does not mean it has the most to offer. It is working _heavily_ on its cultural image though, trying to become a _modern_ tourist magnet - precisely because unlike Bergen with it's natural beauty, history and...everything! - Oslo must create it from the bottom up. It's getting there.
Heey my home city. But serious, this guy just show a few things. Ulriken and Akvariet was missing. But nice video.
The fortress and castle in Bergen is the old royal castle from the middel of the 1200s. Bergen was the capitol of Norway untill the end of the 1200s when it was relocated to Oslo.
You should react to Bergens celebration og May 17th, the constitutonal day of Norway.
The celebration is one of a kind :D
one of a kind, every year, in most cities.
very special...
@@bsrules have you been to Bergen on May 17th?
@@BTultras never have, never will, besides there are more than enough videos out there.
haven't celebrated 17th of May for...probably 20 years.
Then i dont understand why you are commenting on my post...
@@BTultras you said it's "one of a kind".
we both know that is bs, it is so similar to most major cities in norway.
small ones are obviously different because...smaller.
Been living in Bergen for 18 years (nearly half my life) and I love it here :) It's a large city from a Norwegian's perspective (it's the second largest in the country) but has the feel/atmosphere of a small town. I definitely recommend visiting Fløyen for anyone coming here, whenever I go I usually take the funicular up to the top and then hike back down through the woods, the sounds of the city just falls away and you feel like you are in the middle of nature, but you are still in the middle of the city centre.
I disagree with this guy about the Norwegian diet being mostly fish. Yes, there's plenty of fish here, but also plenty of meat dishes. There's plenty of people here who don't eat all that much fish, just as there are plenty who do.
Oh, and a recommendation for a video to watch, there's a timelapse video of Bergen which is just gorgeous.
th-cam.com/video/ey-9nW2blWI/w-d-xo.html
I used to live in Bergen and the city is beautiful, had to move a few years ago down to Sandnes which is a 20 min trip with train, really miss bergen (Bergen is also the BIGGEST city in norway and it has 3 huge mountains surrounding the city, but Bergen is extremely expensive to live in tho)
Oooo! I love Bergen i were born there and live right beside it in Askøy. It's pretty awesome there
Do note that saying fjord about any narrow body of water is only done in informal Scandinavian speech, which is common usage in some dialects and other Nordic languages. In formal speech however it should only be used about coastal features that can be described as a sea valley. In English only the formal definition is used.
As for Reindeer meat, not only is it tasty, but it's also rich in Omega 3, equal to Cod, making it an alternative for those who aren't fond of seafood.
I live in Bergen, have lived here 15 years now, it is stunning. We do have the most rain in all of Norway, but stil tops my chart one of the best places to visit in Norway =)
BTW all our insane cool fjords are cut out of the mountain by ice during the end of the iceage, some are as deep as 1300meter+ and when you consider that is between powerful mountains of the same height and higher it is kind of mind boggeling =)
You should come for a visit some time Tyler, send me a PM if you come to Bergen, I will be glad to show you the town =)
I grew up in Germany and South Africa but my granny is Norwegian. We always grew up with those little trolls in our house. I've still got one now in my room. Love me a good troll.
I took Fløybanen today, its 75 NOK now. 150 for a two way ticket.
Also I saw two people doing a street art piece in the city center. Beautiful one so they had for sure been hired;)
I will love to be your host in Bergen. I am 68 years old , and I know a lot of fantastic plases the tour office dont know about..I love your program, and I still learning.. When you one beatiful day come to Norway, you come to say, again, and again..OH MY GOOD.. I have experians that so many time I give sigt seening to forein people come to Norway. You are very velcome!!!!
Tyler, a few things. I’m just a regular average American that happens to have lived in Bergen for a few years now. I love your videos and interest in the place. If you ever want to take a trip here and have an American help you find places I’d love too help.
Also, Bergen in my view is one of the most difficult words to pronounce as bergensers do, because it uses a very rarely found retroflex.
most off Norway is beautiful. fjords in the west - but horendus amount of rain (Bergen is europes rain capital around 3 meters off rain/year- may is the driest month), mountains in the midle from south to north, valleys and the best weather in the east, stunning beauty in the north but dont expect to sweat ;-) .
Trondheim har mer regn enn bergen
@@duff0120 nope rent tørt i trondheim i forhold til Bergen-- du får gå på yr å se snittet over 30 år.
Bergen is great, but remember to bring your umbrella 😉☔
Bergen is the city in Norway were the people say we are not from Norway we are from Bergen. The rest of us really hoped it was true.😎🥳❤️🇧🇻
Yup, just like Texas 😆
Visst eg drar til Oslo, og det er Norge... Så nei, vi e ikkje fra Norge^^
@@stianbogevik3805 Jeg forstod ikke helt poenget ditt, men ja - dere sier jo at dere ikke er Nordmenn 😆. - har dere vurdert å erklære dere egen uavhengig stat, akkurat som Texas gjorde i sin tid?🙃
@@sebastianflesjandersen939 Det var vel ikke så bra formulert. Men poenget mitt var vel at Oslo overhodet ikke er Norge. Sjokkert over at jeg måtte snakke engelsk i alle butikker på mitt siste besøk...
Så det blir vel Oslo som ikke er Norge.
@@stianbogevik3805 kjære vene, Oslo er vel like mye Norge som resten av landet.
I live on one of the islands outside Bergen, So I've been to many places in the video.
Including the fort, market, fløyen, Bryggen, etc.
Fjords are the places where the SEA took over after a glacier melted.
Since Norway was totally covered by glaciers before, when these glaciers disappeared they generated a lot of fjords.
Tyler, get a PO box and have Norwegians send you sweets
..and fish!
YEAH, my beloved hometown! The most beautiful city in Norway without a doubt, of course said completely objectively ;)
But of course there is a flip side to the coin.
1. The fish market. As he says, the fish market has unfortunately become a tourist trap. Prices are unnaturally high and the average citizen does little shopping at the fish market precisely because of it. I mean, who can afford smoked salmon at NOK 1,100, ($110) a kilo or fresh cod at NOK 600, ($60) a kilo.
2. The fjords are not part of Bergen. We have cruises that start in Bergen and take you to e.g. The Hardangerfjord, or you can take a train to Flåm and cruise from there in the Sognefjord, but these fjords are NOT part of Bergen itself. We are known as "The Gateway to the Fjords" but are not part of the fjords themselves.
And the picture from the cliff overhanging Ringedalsvatnet is not in Bergen either. Trolltunga is located in Odda, Hardanger, which is more than 2 hours' drive from Bergen.
3. Bryggen in Bergen. This was the Hanseatic power center in the Nordic region where they traded fish around almost the entire world. The Hanseatic League is also the reason why many families in Bergen have German surnames (Friele, Mowinckel, Fosswinckel, Meyer, Wedeler, Martens, Wiese, Konow, Wesenberg etc.).
It was also here that the Black Death spread in Norway and killed around a third of the population.
Unfortunately, Bryggen is now in danger due to global warming causing increasingly frequent floods.
4. Bergenhus Fortress. Once upon a time, Norway's royal seat under Håkon Håkonssen, but with roots going back to 1180. King Håkon 1 built Håkonshallen, which today is used during ceremonial functions, especially by the University of Bergen and usually when the King and Queen is in town, hosting dinners in the beautiful hall.
I served my military service at Bergenhus as cook and had the honor of being one of the cooks cooking for King Harald during his first opening of Festspillene i Bergen, (The Bergen Internasjonal Music Festival) in May 1992.
5. The trip up to Fløyen is not particularly difficult. It consists of paved roads for the most part through idyllic streets filled with old villas where the upper class lived, and still lives. These are now the most expensive homes you can buy in Bergen IF you are so extremely lucky to be able to afford it and at the same time find something for sale. The homes here are mostly inherited by the family and the same families have lived here for generations.
If you take the cable car up, at least walk down so you don't miss this beautiful and historic part of town.
6. The food in Bergen. It is not true that we have a mostly fish-based diet. It's something we had in the past when Bergen was a big fishing town. Now it is more evenly distributed between meat and fish, as it is in the rest of Norway and the world. We have quite an average diet, I'd say.
The kiosk where he bought the sausage is an institution in Bergen. It's called Trekroneren, (Three Crowns) which refers to the prices of the sausages when Dag Hjellestad took over in 1978 and has been in the same place since they started in 1948. They have Europe's largest selection of hot dogs and also the world's largest hot dog at 30 cm. Not bad for a small shed of 15 square meters.
7. Street art. Graffiti was seen as a big problem in Bergen when it arose in the 80s. Instead of using the police and punishments, the politicians in collaboration with the artists came up with a solution that I think is very ingenious. They put buildings and walls at the disposal of the practitioners to do whatever they wanted, provided they did not commit vandalism elsewhere. We now have quite a few walls in Bergen that have been set aside by the politicians for street artists to use for their art. The largest and most famous is in the old Sentralbadet, where several of the walls are decorated with constantly changing art from various artists. A great initiative from both politicians and artists that became inspiration for other cities and countries in Europe.
He forgot an important part about Bergen. Bergen is the origin of the second wave of Black Metal with bands such as Immortal, Taake, Burzum, Hades Almighty and others. The studio in Grieghallen under Pytten is the place where the unmistakable cold sound of True Norwegian Black Metal originated and bands from not only Norway but large parts of Europe were queuing up to record in Grieghallen at this time.
Unfortunately, this was also where some idiots took things too seriously and WAY TOO far when they started burning churches and murdering each other and innocents who had nothing to do with the metal scene.
I love your enthusiasm. Fun fact: There actually is a nature kindergarten on Mount Fløyen, so those kids are up there every day. ( You might want to check out the nordic nature kindergartens btw, I'm not sure you have those in the US: th-cam.com/video/vo0LqjSjeKg/w-d-xo.html )
Boy do you get around lol. I’m now subbing to your third channel. How many more are there?
Bergen was the capital of norway back in the day and it is the 2 biggest city
Eyyy, my city! Well, I live a bit outside it (in a fjord, naturally). Now you wanna be careful about getting into pronunciation, cause we Bergenians have a rather particular dialect compared to other places in the country. For example Norwegian typically has rolling Rs, but in the Bergen dialect it's a harsh R similar to French. Being born here but growing up on the other side of the country right by the border to Sweden where the Rs were super soft or even non-existent really did make me stand out... In a not too fun way for a kid, ha ha.
Thank you very much for doing this in Bergen!
You prenounse it fine too. There is soooo much moore here to exspirience
But if you needs someone to guide you around on your private, i 'd love to do that.
Have a plesent Sunday
Hi Tyler i am a swede and i have to say that this Fjord in Norway are just amazing the as are smaller the the most fjords are really long fjord a norwegian friend to me but me in a boat with no engine and we just traveling on the water as was pumping out to the atlantic and treveling back when the water pumping back in to the fjord in the beginning when we start going back in the fjord is was a really fast speed on the but it calm down after 20minuts this movement of water dont we have in sweden we only have like your in US one direction down the river this was 30 year ago and i wondering if they still juse this naturtraveling today i have asked many norweigan but they dont know so much about this traveling very strange my bee it was a old traveling style as they not juse today and they give warning for sailboat to traveling in this small fjords because of the ruff water and like you say Tyler we in Scandinavian living here because it is Animals.Lake and woods near us and that is because we can't exist without the nature we can't make a Beach without check if the fish and bird life been destroyed by the changes 🇺🇸🇳🇴🇸🇪👍🏼. THX Tyler for your intrest in Norway 👍🏼👁️ And sorry Tyler for my as we called swinglish on my english 👀👁️🇸🇪
cities in sweden are 10 times more beaitful than ours, we have got ridd of all the most beaitful stone buildings and exchange it with ugly ass glass buildings. Oslo had the stone theme just like Stockholm and gøteborg, but the politics fucked up Oslo
Puncuation! Please😭
@@duff0120 the Swedish politics been realy bananas for the last 8 years in just stockholm has it been crazy our goverment take in imigrants in places they never seen before and the criminality is sky high there they put this poor syrians as running from war in to the criminal war as the goverment off sweden make in the last 15 years when we swede metting your imigrants you have taking care of they are really good people as you in norway are.. that means that you in norway are 10 times better then sweden to help people as need help..but now i hope the new government as been voted by the Swedish people are cleaning up the criminality in or country and make laws like Norway and Denmark 🇸🇪❤️🇳🇴❤️🇩🇰
@@Hammarspiken i was in stockholm this summer, downtown, airport, all the nice places. there were more young arabs than young swedes itself. literally all who worked at the airport were arabs, pakistanic, somalians, and i would say 20% of the young ppl i saw in stockholm were ethnic swedes. stockholm dont feel like europe at all, i mean. its crazy, the only reason why the etthnic population in stocholm is like 60% is because of the old white population, imagine when they die, sweden will literally be a arabic country, thats why the meme ``swedenistan`` is from. shame to see, malmø is even worste. in oslo, 50% of the young population are immigrants, only the older population take the % higher for us. when the 1940s,50,60s generation dies, GG (
You have Grand Canyon, though. That's pretty amazing and exotic and different for us. I'd love to see that in real life someday!
Old local joke from Fisketorget, customer vs. salesman.
- This fish really doesn't look all that good.
- Oh it's worse than that, ma'am. It's dead.
Bergen granted it´s city status in 1070, at that time the City name was Bjørgvin and until ca 1300 the city was considerd to be the capital city. in the 1600 Bergen was considerd to be the larges city in the Nordic contries, but due to the plage Bergen lost the lead of beeing the larges populated city, In Bergen we do have a big outdoor/housing museum called "Gamle Bergen museum" or Old Bergen museum. where many of the historic old trehousing is moved to, here you can meet actors in histoical clothing that represent the timing of when the housing was build.
Bergenhus like Michael says is a millitary fort, the fortress includes Rozenkrants tårnet (the large structure that was under renovation the video), Håkonshallen (the banckethall) and Koengen all of them is guarded by the millitary. Koengen is moustly used as a consertarena during BergenFest (a festival in preformans arts and music), but also during Bergen Food Festival.
In Bergen we do have to active naval schools: Håkonsvern and Sjøkrigsskolen.
If you are intrested in WW2 history you may come across a histori about a School bombing, (Holen) during WW2 the British airforce was trying to bomb "Bruno" a submarine base build by the germans during the war. unfortnally a navitational error was made, and the Birtish faild in the attempt to destroy this structure, and hit a children school. "Bruno" is now considored a historical sight, and is to be preseved.
He mentioned Fløyen (Fløyan as he wrote), mount Ulriken do we also need to bring out. this mountan has also to ways up and down, a hiking path and a cabelcar. Ulriken is considerd the higest mountian that is sourinding the citycenter of Bergen. Each year her in Bergen there is a mountain hiking race call "7 fjellsturen" (7 mountain). this 7 mouintains are the 7 tops sourinding the city center.
If you ever deside to come to Bergen, Bring a raincoat- we have many suuny days But Bergen is famous for the rain...
I not been to many places in America but Seattle is on of the places and it does have a similar fish marked to Bergen.
Worth a mention is that shrimps are cooked on board of the fishing boat, than fozen with a thin layer of water, so the taste is so much... more....
And Seattle is the friendship town to Bergen.
Bro, you should definitely do a workcation to Norway some time, make a traveling vlog out of it
Love this channel espeacially bc i live in Norway and this vid is better bc i live in Bergen
And yes you you say every city in norway wrong😂
I just love compliments
Yo, I'm from Bergen! Your pronunciation is good.
Theres a pretty cool and famous fish market in San Francisco.
They show a ton of nature stuff that you wont really find inside the metropolitan area of Bergen but I suppose you can access it readily enough(kinda how upstate NY isnt part of NYC proper ).
I moved to this city from the US when I was abt 7,the novelty kinda wore off in due time though.
Any visitor from stateside that Ive hosted always love the city and think it looks like a fairytale city,I agree but I also see the issues it has like every other city on earth.(which is also part of its long and storied history).
Few tourists venture out of the historic medieval core into the other newer parts of the city(the core is compacted between mountains inside a valley,so to grow it kinda had to push beyond the mountains to extend the urban growth.)
As a result it can look deceptively smaller then what it is(you cant see the whole city from Fløien dude;) ).
The Farmers Market in Seattle has a fish market! Been there many times myself! Stay safe!
Bergen used to be Norway's capital, Originally called Bjørgvin. According to the myth this is where the black plague started in Norway
It's not a myth, it's historical facts.
It came by ship so yeah not a myth.
@@Valfodr_jr The Black Death being spread by rats is a myth, though.
@@Aewon84 We are well aware of that. It's not a myth but a truth with modifications. The rats themselves did not spread the Black Death, that's true, but they did spread the fleas that carried the virus with them. The rats spread in Bergen, (which was then called Bjoergvin), and the fleas jumped to people who became infected.
So it's at least a partial truth, one might say.
@@mari97216 Fra Bergen skal smitten ha spredt seg som en farsott over hele landet. Men disse gamle kildene hadde kun oversikt over kysten på Vestlandet og nordover.
Nyere kilder argumenterer derimot for at svartedauden ankom Oslo havn allerede i 1348, og at den spredte seg til deler av Østlandet derfra fram til vinteren samme år. Men så ser det ut til at den gikk i vinterdvale før den på nytt spredte seg våren 1349.
Out of all the videos on norway you watched this is the one that contained the least amount of information that was either incorrect or outdated. He managed to get most of it right, but there are still a couple of things that needs clarification.
Fish market
His point on the prices being touristy is bang on, the quality is decent but the fish market used to cater to the locals. The past 20 years or so it's been more for tourists and the prices reflect that. Fortunately it's mostly good quality fish still.
The fjords
Bergen being marketed as "the gateway to the fjords" is both correct and incorrect. Bergen itself does not have any fjords and the closest fjord is hours away. If you travel to Bergen and expect to see the city and the fjords in a couple of days you will be disappointed. But it is a great place to start if you plan properly. Enjoy Bergen for a couple of days and then continue up the coast, going slightly in at times) and you'll see almost every fjord in norway. Or use Bergen as a base and make day trips to the closest fjords when you feel you've seen everything you want in Bergen.
Bryggen
All the shops are unfortunately the same tourist traps you'll find all over norway. Trolls have no uniquely historical connection to the city of Bergen or it's culture, feel free to walk around the narrow streets of bryggen, but don't buy anything there.
Bergenhus festning
The tour is interesting enough if you're into history, but make your way up to the upper ramparts of "Øvre Sverresborg" and you'll get the best view of both the fortress, the city and the port that you can get without having to climb a mountain.
Fløyen
Although he got the name wrong, he got most of it right. Yes, it's a mountain, one of the seven mountains surrounding Bergen, from which the city takes it's name. Take the funicular up, enjoy the view, go for a hike and walk down. Restaurant is good, but not worth the price. You can get better food in Bergen for less.
Food
Here he got one thing right, 3kroneren (the hot dog shack) is absolutely a staple of Bergen. While reindeer are not native to Bergen it's still locally produced using sausages from Solheim kjøtt. He did however miss out on a lot of the really amazing food that is available in Bergen. Colonialen, Banzha and Cornelius (more for the experience than the food) to name a few. And if he kept walking past 3kroneren and made a right turn down skostredet he would have discovered some of the best chocoloate in the world from Fjåk and locally made ice cream with amazing and inventive flavours like skillingsbolle (Bergens version of cinnamon bun) from Hallaisen.
Street art
He got the url wrong, it's streetartbergen.no but other than that you can find a lot of cool pieces just walking around the city.
Eh,is not the city fjord a fjord? or askøyfjorden and so on? Theres Matrefjorden,thats definately a fjord and that starts inside the metropolitan area (of Bergen).
I think it's time you visit Norway. Take a look further north and Finnmark where the sami people live, :)
Also check out facts on Tønsberg. We have a lot of Viking history here! And is also the oldest city in Norway ☺️
Bergen is my hometown, and this video is cool, but it’s highly exaggerated how much fish we eat 😂 Norwegians eat steak, tacos, pizza and whatever. I feel like it’s normal to have fish like once per week, or some other type of seafood. Fun fact, Bergen is also a very rainy city, but beautiful! (The most beautiful in my humble opinion😅). It also used to be the capital of Norway back in medieval times towards the end of the Viking era.
"Norwegians eat steak, tacos, pizza and whatever. I feel like it’s normal to have fish like once per week, or some other type of seafood."
Are You sure about that ? If so, well that food is not really healthy. and You are waisting Your money on crap as there is nothing really impressive about norwegian pizza except for the price. Your WILD (not cultivated) fish however is both superhealthy and crazy cheap, especially when You consider how healthy wild fish is... I spent one year in Stavanger eating almost nothing but wild fish caught in the north sea and it made wonder with my health and my brain. I retrieved my ability to read one or two books in a day. Something I thought I had lost with my youth . Now I am back in Sweden and I still eat a lot of wild fish but here it is like two or three times more expensive and the fish is not quite the same and sometimes there simply is no wild fish in the stores here. You just do not understand how lucky you are to have Your north sea fishing industry supplying You with plentiful of the best food in the world from unpolluted waters ! And at prices that allows all norwegians access to this great fountain of health ....
another video about Bergen that forgets to check the Fantoft church which is simply amazing.
Hey, consider setting up a crowd sourcing campaign for a visit here?
Ideally one that doesn't have a end date so you *will* reach the goal eventually.
Then just pin a link to it in all the Norway videos or something?
If you can manage to ge a 1 month unpaid vacation at some point and save up for a RV trip through Norway with some money spent on exploring things too.
Food, plane tickets, fuel, the RV rent, tickets to various things here, tolls, ferries, etc, etc...
You can make up your own mind about where you'd like to visit then and how much time to spend in each place. :-)
(Honestly 2 months would be better, but I suspect that would be difficult with a American employer)
Keep the schedule a bit loose as you might want to include weather forecasts in your planning, if there's bad weather on one side of the mountains staying on the other side might be a good idea.
Make sure that you get a discord channel or something and get a community that can back your visit.
We can give you lots of suggestions about places to visit.
And if you happen to come close to one of us you may even be able to meet them and go and drink a coffee or something with them and talk with them etc.
They can probably point you in the direction of local destinations worth visiting depending on what you're interested in. :-)
Norwegian is our main spoken language, but English is our second spoken language we are taught in school. You can later on in school learn a 3rd language if you so choose, between French, German or Spanish.
Norway knew from early on that, if we were to trade and work internationally, we should be good at both writing and speaking the language most of the world speak and write in. And English is the main language used in trade and commerce.
You should take a look at tromsø! It’s quite pretty:)
14:41 Ah, 3kroneren, of course.
15:05 Just because some of our politicians and celebrities seemingly can't speak English doesn't mean the rest of us can't.
Hey mate, the reason why fjords can be hard to understand is because there are several definition. For the vikings a fjord is any waterway. But stick to the geolocial definition: is that the water is deeper between the mountains and more shallow further out.
Fjords are like this: When you cut mountains with a 1000 meter ice knife heavy full of rock particles it will create a much sharper valley then simply pouring water. But all this carved out rock needs to go somewhere, and that's why you see flat farmland with shallows on the western shore of Norway while the western interior is mountains and deeper.
For example Lysefjorden (google this place) is 550 meters deep between the mountains but only 14 meters further out.
For anyone who wants to try the "Æ" "Ø" and "Å" here's a quick lesson.
"Æ" is pronounced the same way you say "bad" without the "b" and "d".
"Ø" is the way you pronounce the "e" in "early"
"Å" is pretty close when you say crocs, but remove "cr-cs"
Do car trips in norway! visit Loen (Stryn)
Please do a video about the sami people in Norway
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There's no silent letters in "Hanseatic".
The second "a" is just as clear as the first one and sounds the same.
Hi Tyler, I have noticed your confusion about the fjords 😃 I think if you look at a map and notice our coastline, it will make sense to you. All those thin fjords stretching in from the coast, thats it! Btw, I'm from Bergen, a Bergenser as we call ourself, with a tiny bit of hanseatic blood. The little kiosk that sold reindeer sausages has been there, selling sausages for more than 75 years.
I LIVE IN BERGEN. I NEVER BEEN IN THE USA. LOOK SO COOL IN THE STATES. WANT TO TRAVEL THERE🤩
Its pronounced Bärgen (Bærgen)... Sort of
You should react to something about Stavanger. Its the oil capital of Norway. Stavanger metro area, Stavanger/Sandnes is the 3 biggest in Norway with about 250k people. Stavanger and Sandnes are two cities that have grown together. Stavanger is the starting point for alot of Beautiful places. And mostly the "pulpit rock" where Mission Impossible 6 was filmed.
And Stavanger and Bergens Football (Soccer) teams have a FIERCE rivalry. Viking from Stavanger and Brann (means Fire) from Bergen. Viking is these days without a doubt the best teams of the two.
Go to Bergen and rent a car or take the ferries between the islands. :)
TH-cam apparatly doesn't allow me to paste here a link to another TH-cam video...so, Tyler, check out the "Norway" episode from travel channel "Anton somewhere". You will not regret it and you may even redefine the definition of the word "epic" in your dictionary.
Regards from Bergen.
what to do in bergen? wear a huge rubber suit or catch pheumonia from all the rain. bring earplugs if you plan on spending alot of time amongst locals and you dont want to develop a headache. :D
It's easy to pronounce the name Bergen; the E is pronounced just like the Æ in Bærum, which is easy to remember, because the Æ in Stabæk is pronounced like the first E in "esoteric", just like the second E in Bergen. :)
Bergen in NEW YORK are named after Bergen in Norway and are pronounced the same
Hi, Norwegian here, moved to Bergen in 2011, and worked in tourism prior to the covid outbreak. If you want to try Norwegian cuisine, I would try some of the restaurants along Bryggen or Pingvinen, over the fishmarket, I know it looks cool, but it's a tourist trap and locals always complain every time they try to eat there more or less.
When it comes to the Bergenhus Fortress, he visited the Rosenkrantz Tower and King Haralds Hall, the Tower has a great exhibition you need at least 1 hour in there, btw, and a lot of tourists get a bit disappointed with the King's Hall since it's mainly the Hall and the lower rooms. If you're visiting during the season may to September and plan it, you can sign up for the guided tours through Bryggen museum and the other 2 attractions, it will give you a way better insight into why these buildings are important.
5 min away there is the military fortress museum, it's free of charge, 3 floors of amazingly detailed information about not just the fortress but also Norways military history, highly recommend it.
Mount Fløien probably sounds intimidating to hike but it takes you max an hour and a half to walk up if you're slow, I've hiked up there within an hour several times on spontaneous hikes with friends and I'm in really rubbish shape. Take the vernacular up and hike down, you'll be back in the city within 30 min.
The Fjord trips with the cruises as their called, the boats you see in the video are great. If you're thinking of hiking to see the view in the video remember, if the authorities tell you not to go because of bad weather, stay away! It's really dangerous.
Just a little more detailed info on what you saw in the video, hope it helps. 😊
If you like lots of rain welcome to bergen
That is a very cheap reindeer hot dog. 20 krone works out at £1.56. That's insane! I want to go to Bergen now...
7:51 He sounded like a Minecraft villager lmao
Pike Place Market in Seattle has a famous fish market, though. 😉
I live in Bergen😍
We had a lot of american tourists in Bergen this summer 🎉🇺🇸
If I’m gonna live in Norway, I’m gonna live in Bergen. For sure.
Take it from someone who’s born and raised (but with much travelling behing her).
Definitely recommend a visit!
And your first pronunciation of “Bergen” was the most accurate in terms of English-speakers. But absolutely not how we would say it ourselves!
We also, obviously, have the best dialect out of the whole country. Pretty much its own language that noone can replicate. Honestly, we’d basically identify as our own country if we could!
"If" you're gonna live in Norway? You already live in Bergen 😋
@@siljebeatesolfjell854 of course!
I just mean, unless I live abroad, I will live in Bergen, and not anywhere else i Norway.