Norway 2014
Photos of my June 17 to July 9 trip to Norway. Two nights in Oslo, 14 days and 1600 miles in rental car, then 6 nights train and bus to Bergen.
On my way home I stopped in Iceland for 6 days, July 9 to July 14. See the Iceland slide show for those pictures.
1 - I started touring Oslo, Vigeland Park
2 - Oslo Vigeland Park
3 - Oslo Vigeland Park
4 - Oslo from Bygdoy Peninsula
5 - Bygdoy waterfront
6 - Oslo waterfront
7 - Oslo waterfront, Opera House
8 - Oslo waterfront, sculpture
9 - View from my Oslo Anker Apartments room
10 - Oslo Holmenkollen Ski Jump
11 - Oslo Holmenkollen Ski Jump
12 - Oslo Hotel near the ski jump
13 - Oslo from near the ski jump
14 - After 2 nights in Oslo, took a bus to Sweeden to get a rental (much cheaper) and headed west, this is a lake in Telemark
15 - Now getting into the Suleskarvegen mountains
16 - These multifalls are really more impressive than this picture
17 - Slick rock falls, they are falling away from us
18 - The upper part of the previous falls
19 - Really impressive slick rock falls; actually part of a swimming area
20 - Many houses in high country had grass roofs
21 - We are in the mountains now
22 - So I climbed one to take this panoramic shot, see my car on the side road that is blocked with snow
23 - Looking south
24 - Mountain I climbed the get the previous shots
25 - You want WHAT for dinner?
26 - It's amazing how wide some waterfalls get
27 - Mountain lake
28 - Waterfall into it
29 - Falls
30 - Falls
31 - Looks kind of like Yosemite
32 - Looks like a fjord, but it's just another lake
33 - Free camping here
34 - Stavanger camping with an attack swan
35 - Stavenger waterfront
36 - Stavenger church
37 - Stavenger park
38 - Stavenger
39 - My first ferry, of many. Pulpit Rock ahead (around the corner of the middle sheer face)
40 - Around the corner from that face
41 - Lysefjord
42 - Preikestolen is the famous rock I am about to climb (We call it Pulpit Rock)
43 - The basic hike is about 2.5 miles in and 1100 ft up, a half mile in view of the car park below
44 - The trail is mostly on rock
45 - A lot of it
46 - My first glimps of Preikestolen
47 - About 2000 ft above the fjord
48 - Me
49 - Lysefjord from the rock
50 - Preikestolen!
51 - Lysefjord and Preikestolen
52 - Most people went back after they got to the rock; I kept climbing
53 - Great views
54 - Different angles
55 - Am I boring you yet?
56 - Even higher, see the rock? They are coming in droves
57 - Both ends of the fjord
58 - Close to the top, there's the bridge
59 - From the top
60 - The top, I saw no one after the first half of the climb
61 - Stavanger from the top
62 - On the way down, skull?
63 - Now a pleasant drive north
64 - We are in Fjord country now
65 - The views just kept coming
66 - And coming
67 - Yep
68 - Falls
69 - Falls
70 - Mountains are getting bigger
71 - Feeding more falls
72 - I went through at least 100 tunnels in Norway
73 - Latefoss, impressive double falls, the ending foss means falls
74 - A bigger roar a few hundred yards below Latefoss
75 - Falls
76 - Otta campiing site
77 - Glacier
78 - Same glacier
79 - Mirror
80 - Another mirror
81 - Not so much
82 - Voringsfossen #2, with a hint of #1 in lower right
83 - Voringsfossen #1, with a some of #2 on the right
84 - Voringsfossen info
85 - More falls
86 - Edifjord free campsite
87 - With sunset, almost no night this close to the artic circle
88 - Mirror 3
89 - $25 to cross this new bridge
90 - Voss church
91 - Voss Extreme Sports Festival in progress
92 - Enthusiast from around the world doing extreme stuff, most of it in surrounding venues
93 - Tvinnefoss
94 - Headed towards Gudvagen
95 - Gudvagen
96 - Falls, headed towards Flam
97 - Four waterfalls
98 - Took a side trip to Undredal
99 - Undredal waterfront, 180 degree panorama
100 - Undredal
101 - Leaving Undredal
102 - From Flam beach
103 - Flam
104 - Aurland
105 - Flam left, Aurland below
106 - And Uredal is hidden around the corner
107 - Uredal left of the cruise ship
108 - Way above Aurland
109 - Aurland
110 - Me
111 - Observation point way above Aurland
112 - View hiking to my mountain top campsite
113 - Good night
114 - The next morning
115 - That's Flam way down there
116 - I drove back to observation deck the next morning to see what it looks like with morning sun
117 - Then further into the mountains
118 - On one of the national tourist routes, 243
119 - Lots of snow
120 - Melting
121 - Beautiful
122 - And icebergs
123 - And waterfalls
124 - The longest tunnel in Europe is below me, much nice up here
125 - Falls on my way down
126 - Lone kayaker
127 - A ferry from my ferry
128 - Postcard
129 - Falls
130 - Remote
131 - Highway 55 to Lom gets high too
132 - With glaciers
133 - And art
134 - And me
135 - Want to go mountain climbing?
136 - Many to choose from
137 - See the hiking trails
138 - Summer practice
139 - Falls
140 - On the way down
141 - Lom Stave Church
142 - Back up to high country, on dirt road 258
143 - Plenty of snow here
144 - Shoot, the ski area is closed
145 - Falls
146 - Headed back down again
147 - On to Geiranger
148 - Notice the switchback road out on the right?
149 - Now I am on it
150 - From the top
151 - Falls side campsite
152 - Did I say falls or falling (off the cliff); only semi-level spot I could find
153 - Much of my driving was on one lane roads
154 - Roadside view point and rest stop cafe for Trollstigen
155 - View point center below me, I'm headed the the falls on the right
156 - Now I'm at the falls on the opposite side of the valley. See the boardwalk and viewing area? Left and just above the fat part of the falls
157 - Back to the viewing platform
158 - Me
159 - The falls under us
160 - Leaving, the waterfall I hiked to is upper right, viewing platform below it, main falls are hidden
161 - Inside the cafe
162 - Now I get to drive down to Andalsnes
163 - The main falls from below
164 - The lower part of the falls I hiked to
165 - Looking back from the ferry to Molde
166 - The Ocean Road
167 - Built to attract tourist like me
168 - It was pretty cool
169 - And we got much more than a surrealistic highway
170 - The boardwalk was not open, still unmder construction
171 - I liked it so much, I camped here
172 - Next day, my grass roof cabin in Gjora
173 - Next day, my riverside campsite south of Dombas
174 - Next day, from my Lillihammer riverside campground
175 - Next day, my fort view campsite in Halden
176 - Fredricksten Fortress, Halden
177 - From town
178 - Turned in the rental car, now on train, Oslo to Myrdal
179 - From the train, Oslo to Myrdal
180 - From the train, Oslo to Myrdal
181 - From the train, Oslo to Myrdal
182 - Myrdal information center
183 - Downtown Myrdal
184 - My Myrdal campsite, for 2 nights
185 - Falls below my campsite
186 - Day hiking around Myrdal. Falls and the trail down to Flam I will take tomorrow
187 - The famous Flamsbana Myrdal-Flam train, the steepest non-cog or cable train in Europe
188 - My hike continues
189 - Back home again
190 - I start my 21k hike down. Falls below Myrdal
191 - More falls further down
192 - Falls
193 - Finally out of the steep hiking
194 - But now we have traffic
195 - Falls
196 - Falls
197 - Falls
198 - Falls
199 - Falls
200 - Train, my heavy backpack went down to Flam on the train
201 - Falls, rain
202 - Falls
203 - Flam, again
204 - Voss hike, lots of rain
205 - From the bus, Voss to Bergen
206 - From the bus, Voss to Bergen
207 - Bergen seafood market, great food
208 - Bergen seafood market
209 - Bergen warehouses, now tourist shops
210 - Cable car to top of Mt. Floye, I hiked up
211 - My hotel from the top of Mt. Floye
212 - Bergen, see my hotel?
213 - Waiting for a sign?
214 - Bergen
215 - Bergen
216 - Mt. Floye
217 - Bergen as I leave for Iceland
218 - Map of my 2 week route in the rental car
219 - ch.jpg
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