Kjollefjord Norway
Norway
3125
Cruises availables
At departure or passage at this port
Hurtigruten (3125 Cruises)
MS Kong Harald
508 Cruises
MS Nordkapp
530 Cruises
MS Nordlys
484 Cruises
| 28 August | 12 days | Round-trip from Bergen, Norway |
| 28 August | 7 days | One-way from Bergen to Kirkenes |
| 28 August | 11 days | One-way from Bergen to Trondheim |
| 31 August | 4 days | One-way from Svolvaer to Kirkenes |
MS Nordnorge
503 Cruises
MS Polarlys
588 Cruises
MS Richard With
512 Cruises
Frequently Asked Questions
In the small harbour, right in the centre, a few strides from the first doorways. The coastal express calls here too. No shuttle and no programme are needed: you step off and the far North is right there.
A sacred cliff whose grey spires, standing at the mouth of the passage, look carved by a Gothic architect. In fact wind, frost and the waves of the Barents Sea shaped them. Ships have slowed in front of it for generations.
Long before lighthouses it served as a landmark for navigators and a place of offering for the Sami people, who left gifts there to secure a kind sea. In winter, floodlights wash the rock face in shifting colours to greet ships rounding the point in the polar night.
On the Nordkinn peninsula, whose tip marks the northernmost point of mainland Europe, at 71 degrees north. About a thousand people live there in brightly coloured wooden houses.
The passage in front of the Finnkirka is experienced on deck, on arrival and again on departure. Ashore, count on a wander through the village, a short hike up to the ridges and, if offered, a meeting with Sami reindeer herders. None of it requires elaborate planning.
Depending on the excursions offered, yes: each summer Sami families lead their reindeer herds to the coastal pastures of the peninsula. You can meet them in a lavvu tent, hear the joik, the traditional song passed on by ear, and taste a bowl of hot reindeer soup.
Often in summer: the animals show themselves around the houses, grazing lichen between the rocks, unbothered by visitors taking photograph after photograph.
Because the village was completely destroyed in 1944, during the German retreat that razed almost all of Finnmark. The present houses, rebuilt after the war, line their red, yellow and blue facades around the harbour. Yet the settlement was a trading post as early as the sixteenth century.
A country without a single tree, where only lichen and dwarf heather find purchase. In summer a marked trail climbs the nearby heights and gives a plunging view over the crags and the open sea.
None, and that is its strength: no monument, no queue. Kjøllefjord offers exactly the opposite of the big cruise capitals. Here you measure what it means to live from the sea at 71 degrees north, between a cliff revered for millennia and winters without sun.
