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36 sculptural groups reside on the monolith plateau around the main section of the park: an impressive monolith at almost 54 feet high, carved from one single granite block.
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The Wheel of Life, positioned at the very end of the 2,550 foot axis, continues thematically the journey-of-life motif prevalent in the rest of the park. It represents eternity, with four human figures and a baby locked in a circle, floating in harmony.
Wheel of life close up
Beautiful roses in bloom in the park
Walking down the main walkway with statues on both sides
Norway’s most famous boy, the angry boy, is located in the middle of the bridge together with more than 50 bronze sculptures where the artist wanted to display mainly young people and show the relationship between men and women.
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The tree lined walkway is beautiful when a moment in time no one was walking through the trees.
A statue of Vigeland  to the right at the street entrance.
Looking the distance of Vigeland Park from the street entrance to the monolith.
Walking across Oslo there are so many great bakeries that temp you to stop and buy some of the fresh pastry items.
Oslo in the summer season has many out door venues to enjoy dining.
Lots of people out walking in the warm summer afternoon in the city.
View of the harbor on the way to visit the FRAM just across from the city center.
Arriving dockside to visit the ancient sailing ship the FRAM across the harbor from the city.
FRAM - THE POLAR EXPLORATION MUSEUM
Nansen took his ship Fram to the New Siberian Islands in the eastern Arctic Ocean, froze her into the pack ice, and waited for the drift to carry her towards the pole. Impatient with the slow speed and erratic character of the drift, after 18 months Nansen and a chosen companion, Hjalmar Johansen, left the ship with a team of Samoyed dogs and sledges and made for the pole. They did not reach it, but they achieved a record Farthest North latitude of 86°13.6′N before a long retreat over ice and water to reach safety in Franz Josef Land. Meanwhile, Fram continued to drift westward, finally emerging in the North Atlantic Ocean.
The Fram was the first ship specially built in Norway for polar research. She was used on three important expeditions: with Fridtjof Nansen on a drift over the Arctic Ocean 1893-96.
Forcing ships through the arctic ice to reach the North Pole had been tried and had failed many times already. Nansen conceived the plan of building a ship “so small and so strong as possible ... that it was improbable that it could be destroyed by the ice".

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