Alta

For other places with the same name, see Alta (disambiguation). Alta is the largest city in the county of Finnmark, in Northern Norway. Understand Alta is also known as "the Aurora Borealis city". Get in Alta Airport is the busiest airport in northen Norway. Widerøe [1] provides services from regional destinations including Kirkenes and Hammerfest while Scandinavian Airlines [2] and Norwegian [3] has depatures from Oslo and Tromsø. Get around See Alta rock carvings Prehistoric rock carvings - UNESCO World Heritage Site [4]. Rock art is found in five separate areas in Alta, the largest being at Hjemmeluft/Jiepmaluokta, where Alta Museum is situated. This is the only area available to the public. In the summer season, groups are offered guided tours to the rock carvings. In the winter, the rock carvings are covered with snow, and not available to the public. The rock carvings in Alta were made by hunters and fishers in the Late Stone Age/Early Metal Age, between 6200 and 2000 years ago. Do The tourist information seems to move around on a daily basis, so the first thing you might do is wind up traveling all over Alta looking for it. As of 29/06/2012, the information center is in the Nordly hotel, on the left, just as you enter town from the South. (You may notice other information signs as you travel through Alta, but almost all of them point to centers that have closed.) Buy Eat Drink Sleep Alta HI Hostel, Kvenvikmoen, 9518 Alta, ☎ + 47 48241169 (alta@hihostels.no), [5]. This hostel is about 14km from Alta, so it is hard to get to without a car. A public bus passes it once in the morning on the way to Alta, and there is one bus back in the afternoon.  edit Get out Routes through Alta Kirkenes ← Lakselv ←  N  S  → Skibotn → Narvik This article is an outline and needs more content. It has a template, but there is not enough information present. Please plunge forward and help it grow!