Another place of interest is something called Flor og Fjære. This is more or less a botanical garden that is located on an island called Hidle (just outside Stavanger). In this pretty, harsh environment you come to the "Garden of Eden" and I guess I can understand their slogan "a break from reality".

Out on these small islands you normally don't see much of plants and stuff but here you will find all sorts of plants that you don't normally see in Norway. You will even find palm trees, pumpkins, chilis, a lemon tree and so on. The company sells a package and for the money you get the boat trip out to Hidle, a tour around the garden where they try to explain how they manged to make such a beautiful garden and in the end you can get excellent food...and they use ingridients that are taken from the garden of course.

There are more information on their website http://www.florogfjare.no/