European Travel: Visit Geilo in Norway

Standing at eight hundred meters, scenic Geilo one of the places you have to visit while in Norway. With one of the highest ski lifts in the world (3887 feet long), skiing enthusiasts and families flock to this holiday destination yearly for the snow and the slopes. Geilo is ideally located at three and a half hours from Oslo, Capital of Norway, and has railways and roads leading to neighboring villages.

Geilo attracts ski enthusiasts, snowboarders and families to its scenic grounds. Visitors are hosted either at the Highland four star Hotel, or at one of their several lodging houses. Accommodation can be purchased in packages. Other than traditional snowboarding and skiing, you can also try out the sleigh rides, wildlife adventure tours, ski orienteering, tobogganing, snow shoe walking, dog-sledging, kite-skiing, night-skiing, and freestyle snowboarding at Geilo.

Geilo is extremely family friendly. Accommodation come family sized, with family packages that start from a thousand dollars for bed and breakfast for a week. If you and your family are new at skiing, you can purchase a "Family Starter Pack" of skiing lessons starting from two hundred dollars for a day's worth of lessons. The "Starter Pack" can get your family up and running on your slope of choice just after one day. For the families visiting during the Christmas season, there's the Christmas Bonanza to look forward to, when Santa pays a visit to the slopes of Geilo on his reindeer on Christmas day itself.

Skiing season at Geilo begins somewhere in August and stretches all the way into end March. Research is being put into the "Avalanche Technology", which allows the manufacture of snow from water. If this new technology works, then Geilo will become the only ski resort where skiing is available all year round.