Longyearbyen Sightseeing - English


This three-hour sightseeing tour takes us comfortably and with many photo-stops over almost the entire street network of Longyearbyen and the surrounding area. All highlights will be explained and visited. The tour starts in the diverse Adventdalen, where a part of the Svalbard wildlife, a lot of history, coal mines, research stations and great views await us. We continue to the west of the settlement, the airport area with a second beautiful viewpoint, the world-famous global seed Vault and among others the Arctic World Archive. At the end o of the tour we visit Longyeardalen and the settlement where exciting details about the daily life of the settlement in the past but also today are explained. The long-time and local guide leads the tour in English, but can also give information in Norwegian and German in between conversations. The perfect start for your Svalbard trip and recommended as a first tour to get a good overview and important info. You will see on the tour: The settlement of Longyearbyen, the global seed vault, university, church, cemetery, huset, hospital, municipality building, power plant, governor's mansion, governor's office, dog kennel, EISCAT radars & Kjell Henriksen observatory (in good visibility), Coalmines 1-7, Operafjellet, Hotellneset, airport and much more.

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