Private Tour
The Paris of the North: A Self-Guided Walking Tour of Tromsø
Overview
Available languages
30 minutes
Mobile ticket
This tour of Tromsø tour takes you along the seaside, where you'll experience a magnificent view of the Arctic Cathedral, and later you’ll find yourself at the Polar Museum, where you’ll learn about famous Polar researchers like Fritjof Nansen and Roald Amundsen. Along the main street, take a stop at the main city square, before you continue to the Tromsø Cathedral and finally the tour ends at the Hurtigruten port.
In this first VoiceMap story from Tromsø, you’ll join Lars Engerengen who takes you on a walk from the port, and then along the seaside and the main street, and then back to the port again. You’ll see the Polar Museum, the Roald Amundsen statue, the main city square and Tromsø Cathedral.
The tour automatically plays audio at exactly the right time and place using your smartphone's GPS and the VoiceMap mobile app. Downloaded the tour in a wifi zone and the app works offline.
Additional Info
Wheelchair accessible
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Service animals allowed
Public transportation options are available nearby
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Cancellation Policy
All sales are final. No refund is available for cancellations.
What‘s Included
VoiceMap Application
Offline access to audio, maps, and geodata
Lifetime access to Tromsø: The Paris of the North tour
Smartphone
Transportation
Food/Drink
Tickets or entrance fees to any museums or other attractions en route
What To Expect
Perspektivet Museum
This museum features photography on the diversity of Tromsø. There are around 500,000 photos. They give a unique insight into Tromsø's history from the 19th century to the present.
Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum
Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum is a Norwegian visual arts museum in Northern Norway. It claims to be the country's youngest and geographically northernmost art museum.
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The Paris of the North: A Self-Guided Walking Tour of Tromsø
Reviews
18 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
Short but interesting
rallisilea,
Sep 5, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
4.00Tromsø is a sympathetic town, the city tour was short-lived, a bit short for the money, but interesting. You should make them right at the beginning of the journey.
a bit exaggerated tourism publicity
TanielV1918,
Jun 25, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
4.00There is not much to see in Tromsø itself. Not much to do either - but good places to eat and/or drink (prices are usually fair, people are nice and well-behaved, there are no safety concerns). But there are a lot to see, all around, not so far from the town. So, it is a good place for lodging. Note : a this moment (end of June 2025), there is a lot construction/repairs work going on here., in the streets. It is slightly annoying, considering the noise, the dirt and also some alteration of the immediate scenery. The never-ending daylight is quite an experience...
A nice abbreviated justice tour of Tromso.
311thomasr,
Mar 6, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
4.0030 minutes of the main highlights. There are longer organized tours, but this gave us all we needed to appreciate this lovely town.
Just OK
bartpic,
Dec 10, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
3.00It is well produced but seems a little thin. For the price , it's not bad, but don't expect much. We think you can buy one tour and share on two phones, but that was not clear in any of the instructions. So we paid for two tours and probably didn't need to.
Link did not work.
timgF3211ES,
Dec 5, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
1.00I left this to our last afternoon and the link did not work. I tried and my son tried and it came up with an 'invalid code' message. As I left this for my last experience i did not believe I would get a response sufficiently quickly to be able to do the walk, so did not try.
Got lost but still very good!
bnpenny2,
Nov 25, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
4.00The tour assumes the cruiseship docks in Tromso with the starting point close by. Our cruiseship docked 2kl out of the city with the shuttle in to Tromso dropping us off in the middle of downtown. We asked for directions to the statue starting point and were directed to a statue but the wrong one. We used the tour but found out we were following it backwards. Dialoque was still quite good at all of the points of interest. Polar musseum was very good.
Great Way To See The City At Your Own Pace
Luci J M,
Jul 19, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00I downloaded the tour and it was not too long, not too short, it was just right! We went at our own pace and could stop the narration to go into shops or take photos. Glad we did it!
Short and sweet
fahanks,
Feb 28, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Short and sweet audio tour. Perfect for our family with 2 teenagers who hate this sort of thing, and we definitely saw parts of the city we had not been to. We were all able to use the same login so only paid once for the 4 of us.
Convenient way to learn a little bit more about Tromsø
Danielle C,
Jan 26, 2024
- Review from Viator
5.00I would recommend doing this walking tour the first chance upon arrival in Tromsø. It would have truly helped to see where everything was from the start. We did it on our last day, but it was still interesting to hear a little bit more history than we had before. It was great that the tour automatically paused until you got to the next stop. Made it very convenient to get those photo opportunities, if we needed to go off the tour path for a few minutes.
A nice walk through the city
N K,
Jan 1, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00The tour worked out perfectly, the walk through the city is very nice and the facts about Tromsø and its history are interesting
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