Bergen 27/04/25

Rain again today, sometimes heavy but there were times when it almost stopped.

A road tunnel from the coach

I became a proper tourist today and booked onto a coach, boat, rail and coach tour of fiords.

View from the coach

An excellent drive to Gudvangen, via a quick stop at a waterfall, where there is a reconstruction of a Viking village complete with vikings, some of whom live there year round.

Reindeer skins getting wet 

We were given the tour in cold, heavy rain but it was interesting to listen to our 'viking' guide explaining the history behind it all.

On the water

On the boat then for a trip through the fiords to Flam. A wet cold trip in a specially designed electric catamaran with a good warm cabin area but also well designed so that everyone can get out to see the scenery in decent weather.

Approaching Flåm

The doors were well used as everyone nipped out for a look and a photograph before retreating to the warm and dry again until the next good view made it happen again.

An early locomotive in the little museum at Flåm

 

At Flåm we boarded the famous train which winds its way from sea level to 866 meters in 20 miles and 20 tunnels through the Flåm valley with a stop to look at the Kjosfossen waterfall, amazing!

Rainy railway view

We changed to the main Oslo - Bergen train at Myrdal for the journey to Voss where we met our bus again for the return drive to Bergen.

Village from the coach

There was a lot of snow on the heights and when I saw the conditions I wasn't that unhappy not to be walking in it! The views from the train were hampered by the rain on the windows and I think by that time we had enough photos anyway.

Bergen again

The sun nearly appeared for a moment or two as we approached Bergen at the end of a 10.5 hour trip.

For most of the pictures today I used my camera and can't transfer them to the blog

We went through 120 road tunnels in the bus today ( no I didn't count them) ranging in length from about 100 meters to 2.8 kilometres. An excellent day, pity about the weather but it could have been worse, at least the visibility was reasonable.

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