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This gallery is from our 10 day journey through "Fjord Country" in Western Norway. We started our journey in Oslo. We then boarded a train that included the "Flamsbana" that took us to Flam, a tiny village on the edge of Sognefjord. |
"The train journey provides some of Norway's wildest and most magnificent scenery. On the 20 km-long train ride you can see rivers that cut through deep ravines, waterfalls cascade down the side of steep, snow-capped mountains and mountain farms cling dizzily to sheer slopes.
The Flåm Railway is one of the worlds steepest railway lines on normal gauge. The gradient is 55/1000 on almost 80% of the line, i.e. a gradient of one in eighteen. The twisting tunnels that spiral in and out of the mountain are manifestations of the most daring and skilful engineering in Norwegian railway history." |
From Flam, we took a ferry through the narrowest fjord passage in Norway to Gudvangen. From Gudvangen we proceeded on to the hip coastal town of Bergen. We ditched the train in Bergen and hired a car for the rest of our journey that led us to Jostedalsbreen (largest ice cap in Norway), Geiranger, and finally back to Oslo. |
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