Norway travel health
Required is not recommended: the first is what the border asks about, the second is what a clinic would suggest. Both, for Norway, then the number to dial and what care costs a visitor. Applies to every guide in Norway: Lofoten, Bergen, Tromsø.
Required to enter
Nothing. No vaccination certificate is asked for at the border.
Recommended
- Tetanus up to date
- Tick-borne encephalitis for a summer spent in forest
Emergency number
113 for an ambulance, 112 for police
Care for visitors
Excellent and cheap
Excellent, and free at the point of use for emergencies. The EHIC and the UK GHIC are accepted. Lofoten’s nearest hospital is at Gravdal on Vestvågøy; anything serious is a helicopter to Bodø or Tromsø, which is routine here and is why the mountain rescue statistics are survivable.
Nothing infectious worth planning around. Hypothermia and falls are what the clinics treat: the mountains are small, steep and slippery, and Reinebringen has an accident record. Ticks are present in the summer scrub in the south.
The general rules — clinic timing, water, mosquitoes, insurance — are in travel health tips.
The guides in Norway
LofotenNorwayMountains that come straight out of the sea, above the Arctic Circle, in a place the Gulf Stream keeps liveable
BergenNorwayWooden warehouses on the wharf, seven mountains behind, and the gateway to the longest fjords in the world
TromsøNorwayThree hundred kilometres inside the Arctic Circle, with the northern lights overhead and a sun that does not set in June