From Bergen, Norway of the Fjords was approached on the roads along the fjords and mountainside to visit sights round about.
The town of Flam is universally known for its tourist train climbing the mountain from Flam to Myrdal with uneven of 850 meters. Its trip offers superb sights and a stop at the cascade of Kjosfossen where the tourist operator organizes a spectacle enough screamingly funny, a dancer on musical background looking as out of the cascade.
Stavkyrkjes are one of the richness of the Norwegian cultural inheritance. Three in 28 were visited of which that of Urnes registered at the World Inheritance of Humanity. It is an architecture and a process of construction starting from tree trunks drawn up vertically constituting the framework of the building.
Borgund stavkyrkje
Kaupanger stavkyrkje
Ballot boxes stavkyrkje
The day after on the road
towards Stryn, I did a detour to go to admire the Briksdalsbreen
Glacier. It is interesting less in its immaculate whiteness in the
bluish reflections than in the importance of its retreat since
1800.
Is the consequence of the
natural reheating of planet or greenhouse effect generated by the
behaviour of men? Admittedly quarrel of experts, it is plausible that
it is the combination of the two phenomena, but in which respective
proportions?
Road RV258 from Hjelle to Grotli is Turistvegen known locally under the name of Gamle Strynefjellsveg. It was built between 1881 and 1894. The snow covered landscapes are sumptuous. In July, it is possible to ski on the Tystigbreen glacier.
Road RV63, the road of the Eagles, Ornevegen, and the road of the Trolls, Trollstigveien, constitute the Golden Road which connects the town of Geiranger to other countryside. These very sinuous mountain roads enabled me to take time to contemplate the landscape.
Geiranger is
at the bottom of the fjord eponym 16 km length between the abrupt walls of
the mountain. The city dedicated to tourism, many hotels and coaches
consequently, does not have a distinctive character, aside the
splendid landscape in which it was built.
Assigned time did not enable me to go on the cruise on
Geirangerfjord.
From Andalsnes to Dombas, the
road RV9 curves in the green and wooded valley of Lagen with superb
cascades. From Dombas, the road E6 towards Trondheim crosses a
desert plateau. I forked in Hjerkinn to go to see Muskoxen in Dovrefjell. I
took the track to Snoheim at the foot of Snohetta, 2286
meters high. I was lucky to see a herd of muskoxen.
Thank you Stephen,
the scenery was dramatic.
At this stage of the journey, Norway of the Fjords was what I discovered of more majestic on the level of the cultural inheritance as well as on the level of the landscapes.
