Alta is a tiny town, or rather a bunch of houses which is perhaps more correct of most towns in Norway, situated on the end of the Alta fjord peninsula. Like most other places in Norway, Alta is good for all kinds of nature explorations, from fishing to walking. It also has exceptional weather conditions for seeing the Northern Lights.
Alta is however a famous place due to its collection of rock carvings, the largest in Northern Europe in fact. They are on the UNESCO's World Heritage List. The carvings were made by hunter-gatherers and are between 6200 and 2000 years old. Contraversially the museum painted the carvings red, in the colour they are originally thought to have been in, to make it easier for tourists to see them.
The unpainted carvings however can appear to rise up of the stone when the evening sun, low on the horizon, shines on them. The carvings are thought to depict daily rituals, as well as an understanding of the nature around them and also of their understanding of the universal order and spiritual side. As you can see from the pictures below they documented everything. It's like a stone age Discovery channel!
The most popualr figure amongst the Norwegians however was that of someone skiing.
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