Today was our big tour day – bus/ferry/train and train day. I had finished my scarf so seeing we were
going to be out in the cold it seemed a good day to wear it.
The bus stop was right outside the front of the Hotel. Two buses headed off on the “Norway in a
Nutshell” tour. Our bus took us towards
Gudvangen, lovely sights along the way but the high light was the 18% gradient
road down into the valley. The views were
fabulous – I cannot do them justice so just look at the photos – imagine
everything two to ten times higher bigger and that is the best I can do.
From Gudvangen we boarded a ferry to cruise through the narrow
Naeroyfjord. This was absolutely
magic. Waterfalls everywhere, huge cliff
faces that were snow topped and disappeared into the white of the overhead
clouds. Once again I’ll let the photos
tell the story.
We arrived at Flam. Time
for a quick lunch – hmmm a reindeer hotdog.
It was delicious – the Americans near us ordered them too and she
commented that she was sure it wouldn’t be one of the specially named ones.
So at Flam we boarded the train to take us further up the
mountains to Myrdal. It was great but
the ferry ride was a hard act to follow.
The train made a quick stop at the biggest waterfall and we all dashed
over took photos and then back onto the train.
This area was snow covered right down to the tracks. Very unusual they were saying seeing it is
their summer. It was very Christmas card
like.
So from Myrdal we crossed to the other side of the track and
boarded a local train and arrived back in Voss.
We had met some other Aussies staying at our Hotel who went on the tour
so it was nice to sit in the afternoon sunshine on the Hotel terrace and chat
about each other’s trips.
Tomorrow we all head off to Oslo.
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