Scandinavian breakaway part 2 - Oslo

Well, been a long time since I updated on my Scandinavian breakaway >.< should get it done now!
Ok, we got back to Oslo on Sunday evening itself, and once we reached our host’s place, we got ourselves busy in the kitchen!!! It was CNY eve!!! And our host’s housemates happened to be home that night too, hence we had a big reunion dinner with 6people! :D 3 Swedish, 3 Malaysians (Aldrid, our host’s gf joined us later during the dinner and add up to total 7 people!!!)


The Swedish were very sweet to create a super romantic and cozy atmosphere for a great dinner!  Candles were lit everywhere! And wines were served too… (to go with Chinese food >.<)
We had a great time! Sharing each other stories, life experiences  and they were really satisfied with the food! :D It was really late after when we were done with dinner and washing ups…time for bed! (We have a tight schedule the next day to visit Oslo!)

The next morning, we took off at around 9am and headed to our first destination, the Vigelandsparken (a park basically with its famous human sculptures) which is just a stone thrown away distance from our host’s apartment.


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The sculptures were so vividly done!!! Absolutely well done!!! We did a lot of cam-whoring of course (more pictures could be found on my facebook  ) imitating the numerous poses of the sculptures. All the human sculptures were naked, man and woman, old and young. I think the creator of all these was trying to portray the idea of a life cycle, the enormous power life offers, the joy of birth! (personal opinion :P didn’t find out the true reasons behind).

Oh ya, before we took off to the park, I stopped by an ATM machine, was thinking to withdraw some Swedish kronors, happily inserted my BSN atm card, and it NEVER comes out again!!! =.= Oh my holy SHIT!!! It nearly ruined my day!!! Fortunately I was able to buck up and stayed positive that my other Maybank atm card will still work back in Ukraine later, otherwise really have to ‘makan angin’ =.= (updates: it works!!!  so I am still a happy man! Haha)

Alright, let’s get back to track; after we left the park, we headed to the peninsular of Oslo, where most of the museums are located. Our first museum, the Viking ships museum!!! :D


The ships were like a bigger stronger version of ‘sampan’ . They were humongous when we stood right next to it, but the designs were simple and solid. They were 3 ships remain exhibited inside the building. Vikings were pirates basically >.<, they had to be really tough I supposed given the necessity to travel and survive on a Viking ship without shelther for weeks and months!!! There were different type of ships, for combat, transportation or royal coffins >.< .

We then continued to next museum, called the Kon-Tiki museum, named after a raft, exhibited inside. The raft was famous in successfully sailed halfway across the pacific ocean (to an island, forgot the name >.<). There was too an art exhibition with paintings drawn underneath seawater! Cool!
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Next to the Kon-tiki museum is the FRAM museum housing another HUGE ship inside which once sailed to and explored the north pole. We didn’t enter this museum, just snapped some pictures at the entrance. >.<

There was a little cruise anchored at the shore behind these museums, which supposedly in warmer time, sail along the coastline between the opera theatre, the city center and here! Unfortunately, it was not operating during our visit.

Hence, we travelled on land by bus to the opera theatre! It is a newly built architecture, famous with its roof top gallery, AND once again the roof top was inaccessible during our winter visit!!! Haha~ >.<

Not much time left, we quickly rushed to the center and roamed around, had a glance at the university, the royal palace, the parliament and the national theatre.

Time to go back to our host place and get our bags!!! Ole (the host’s housemate) was kind enough to walk us to the train station (he walked us out in the morning too) on our way out!!! Sweet~ 
All in all, Oslo has actually more to offer and it was a pity that we didn’t have much time. Besides, if I ever have the chance, I would like to come back to Norway again and experienced the midnight sun and northern light in winter! 