Varanger, a multi-ethnic heritage, a landscape of wide horizons and a dramatic history are found in Norway’s far east. The landscape in Varanger is a very different one from the Norwegian fjord-and-mountain thing. The peninsula of Varangerhalvøya consists of rolling hills with a rocky coastline of Cliff towards the Barents sea and a lower coast of sandy and pebbly Beach towards the Varanger Fjord. Smaller sections of the Varanger Peninsula also have permafrost, the only place in mainland Norway with real tundra. Along the lower, southern coast there are forests, and along the Tana river, there a pine forests. The landscape thus has many faces.