I remember sitting in Dan and Kim's living room months ago discussing our itinerary. I believe it was Kim who found the Norway in a Nutshell tour. It was great but grueling; a real endurance test. We were up for it.
What a long strange trip it was. Up and out of our flat by 5:30 am and down the hill with bags full of damp clothes [my jacket didn't dry out till Bergen] to catch a tram to the train station for our long, long train ride
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| Railroad Museum |
across the top of the fjords,
but we didn't really mind as we were thoroughly entertained by the alien landscape.
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| This is where we caught the Flam train [Myrdal]. |
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| Gello |
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| Fjord top |
We reached Myrdal where we caught a train that zig-zagged down the fjord to the sea at Flam.
Bikes & glaciers
More bikes
Daniel tried to hire a bicycle to ride down,
but they were all spoken for, so we enjoyed our wild ride hugging the fjord all the way down,
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| View from the train |
and at one waterfall we stopped and had a photo op with a singing water maiden perched near the fall with amplified music.
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local color
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Top of the World
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| rocks |
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train fall view
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| fjord bottom |
Had to wait for hours for our 2 hour ferry tour
of the fjords which was breathtaking and worth the wait. We all had ‘eye burn’ from looking at hundreds of waterfalls. Yosemite [and I love Yosemite] is lame compared to the Norwegian fjord falls - they’re 3 times as high!
Have to go to a part two on this. Too many photos for some of my e-mails.
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