PYRAMIDEN HIKING EXPERIENCE

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• 08: 30 Transfer from the hotel to the port.

• Sea voyage on a comfortable ship from Longyearbyen to Pyramiden with a stop near the Nordenskiöld glacier (duration about 5 hours).

• Grill lunch on board the ship near the glacier wall.

• Arrival in Pyramiden.

• Accommodation in the Hotel Pyramiden.

Guided tour around the town of Pyramiden with an immersion in the era of Arctic development during the period of developed socialism. The settlement has been perfectly preserved to this day and now life is being revived in it by the caring hands and warm hearts of the polar people of the 21st century. Visit the well-preserved buildings of the canteen, school and kindergarten, swimming pool, Palace of Culture with a cinema projection room and a film storage room.

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• The screening of the film with the old restored Soviet film projectors. 

The darkened hall, the characteristic noise of the old film projector and the analog image immerse the audience in the atmosphere of the last century. Two film projectors have been restored in Pyramiden, and the number of preserved films reaches 2000. In the fall of 2018, the first film screening took place, although a few years ago this seemed impossible.

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• Dinner in the hotel restaurant 

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• Overnight in the Hotel Pyramiden
   

The Nordenskiöld Glacier is the hallmark of Svalbard, one of the most beautiful glaciers on the archipelago and definitely the most famous. The tongue of the glacier turns into a plateau with an area of about 600 km2, and its wall is striking in its height and color. The rumble of breaking ice can be heard from the Pyramiden. Along the way, there is a high chance of encountering whales and polar bears.

Pyramiden is a settlement located at the bottom of the mountain and named after it. It was founded in 1911. It's a town located in between mountains, the huge glacier and moraine. In 1956 the settlement started coal production and in the 1970s-1980s a perfect socialism model system was built. In 1998 Pyramiden was preserved but its infrastructure arranged in the Soviet period has come down to us. Anyone who has spent at least a couple of hours in Pyramiden makes a point in this place's uniqueness. Today the town is open and it grows as a tourist location. A boiler house, hotel, restaurant and film stock cinema have been renovated. Pyramiden attracts not only tourists but also film directors, journalists, free riders and bloggers from all over the world.