Tromsø 2025

November 5th, 2025

The alarm clock rang at 6:00 a.m., and at 7:00 a.m., we set off at dawn (the sun came up at 8:31 a.m.) on our day trip to Sen­ja, Nor­way’s sec­ond-largest island, locat­ed west of Tromsø.

Although the island is only about 90 km away from Trom­sø, the rugged land­scape with its many fjords and the road con­di­tions (snow and ice) meant that it took us a good three hours to cov­er the 180 km dis­tance. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, the weath­er was not very kind to us. It rained on and off.

The land­scape was stun­ning. It remind­ed us part­ly of the rugged West­fjords in Ice­land, part­ly of the Engadin in Switzer­land. Here are some impres­sions from the rainy drive:

Red wood­en cab­ins can be found all over Nor­way, pro­vid­ing a beau­ti­ful col­or con­trast to the blue sea and sky:

Okay, the sky was­n’t real­ly that blue this time 😉.

Unfor­tu­nate­ly, the weath­er was ter­ri­ble all day long, so we decid­ed that we would have to go back there again, per­haps with a motorhome on a longer tour of Norway.

In Fjordgård, we first looked for a café and found a very nice one. Har­ry wrote some­thing in the guest book, which was imme­di­ate­ly placed in front of us. From here, you can start a hike on the Segla Trail. Segla is the steep moun­tain that appears in many pho­tos of Sen­ja.

The hike to the moun­tain peak is pop­u­lar on Sen­ja. A steep path leads up the south side of the moun­tain to the sum­mit, which is 639 meters above sea lev­el. Once at the top, you have a mag­nif­i­cent view of Mefjord and the sur­round­ing moun­tains. The steep west­ern cliff gives any­one who dares to look over the edge an adren­a­line rush.

But the trail was impass­able in the rain. What’s more, the hike along the steep coast­line was far beyond our alpine skills. Instead, we opt­ed for the much eas­i­er option and launched the drones.

For the way back, we took a short­cut and board­ed the fer­ry from Botnhamn to Bren­shol­men on the island of Kval­oya. The cross­ing took about 40 min­utes and was around €20. Only the license plate num­ber was reg­is­tered on board, and the cost was added to the final rental car bill. Very convenient!

From the har­bour, it was still a good 1 1/2 hour dri­ve back to our vaca­tion apart­ment, where we spent a qui­et evening.