NORWAY

On this page we present complete information, photos and a travel diary on the wonderful Norway.

Information and travel tips for Norway

Why go? It is not a very original statement, but those who go to Norway by looking spectacular fjords and uncontaminated nature will surely be satisfied.
when to go? Unless you are interested in sledges and cross-country skiing, summer is recommended. In the south, spring is not bad: in Bergen it rains 400 days a year (a statistical impossibility that amazes scientists), but April and May are typically drier. The first May bridge, for example, could be a good opportunity to visit the city and the surroundings.
How to move? From Europe it is easy to reach Norway with a cheap low-cost flight (and, if desired, you can use an internal flight to move between north and south). Once arrived, I recommend the rental car to move freely in nature (traffic, in fact, does not exist). Public transport is efficient and expensive.

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How much does it cost? Norway is a dear country. Sleeping and eating can spend 80 euros respectively per night (for a double & quot; cheap & quot;) and 30 euros per meal. Bar, supermarket and hostels can help you contain your budget. The rental car, if you are at least in 2, will save you compared to public transport.

Keep in mind that in what it costs I take into account the whole journey ... from the middle for the airport of departure to the drink passing through meals and souvenirs.
For an idea on hotel prices in Norway Click here to compare hotels and find Cheaper accommodation.

Where to go? Bergen and the fjords. Travel itinerary Simple but spectacular.
Other destinations? All Norway, and in particular the coast, deserves to be visited in search of paradise views. North Cape can be the point of arrival of a much longer travel itinerary.

Travel Diary in Norway

Norway should be the goal of a long and wandering holiday. This country, in fact, offers boundless wild views and thousands of miles of winding roads that line fjords and overtake mountains. However, you can have a tasty tasting of Norway also thanks to a convenient long weekend and a rather small travel itinerary.
From Oslo, where we rented the car, we immediately headed northwest, looking for wild views . The first destination for the holiday was Flaam, a village located on the Fjord of Aurland .
We would reach him by driving through attractive highlands, on beautiful roads little traffic. met semi-icy lakes and forests. We immediately realized that traveling in Norwegian nature was a real pleasure .

A Flaam pernottammo In the bungalow of a campsite we had booked from Italy. The hotel rooms are expensive in Norway (like everything else) so it is convenient to make sure the cheapest beds with due advance. You think that the simple shave when I slept, free of a bath, cost us over 80 euros a night.

(And the toilets of the campsite were a hundred meters from the bungalow, practically a trip when there are six degrees!) If you could be an acceptable solution to sleep, eating was even more difficult. We realized that Flaam's night was non-existent. At 9 pm the only open room was a desert bar, which was still to close, where we spent 10 euros each for a squalid sandwich tuna and a beer. Our vacation risked luo expensive. MANCO restaurants to talk about it, or maybe they had already closed. At Norwegian discloses it is necessary to say that it was not yet full tourist season.

The next day every suffering there was but rewarded. Flaam was in fact in a fantastic location at the bottom of a branch of the Aurlandsfjorden.

It was strange to think that we were on the sea, although the open sea distances about 150 kilometers as the crow flies . (Don't you believe it? Eh, it looks strange, in fact. But trust yourself, or checked on a map: The Aurlandsfjorden sets in the Sognefjord, one of the most extensive in the world with its 200 and over lengths long.)

We decided to use public transport to make a spectacular tour of that area of Norway. The itinerary began by boat, from Flaam to Gudvangen, a village positioned at the bottom of another branch of the Aurland fjord.
Along the route in the fjord we saw mountains, waterfalls and characteristic villages. Norway has a surface similar to that of Italy, but it is largely uninhabited, but the most interesting thing is that its 3000 km of coastline become 20000 if you take into account your wonderful flutter of fjords (as well as islands and islets ).

Arrived in Gudvangen we took tickets for the bus that took us to Voss through 45 kilometers of the panoramic road. Compared to the tiny villages seen up to that time, Voss was a town, in a beautiful position on the lake, with several hotels and restaurants.

From Voss Our travel itinerary in Norway continued by train to Myrdal, crossing fascinating snowy highlands. Myrdal was a pretty uninhabited village, still covered by impressive amounts of snow, made of a few houses surrounded by woods and mountains .

The station in the middle of the mountains is more useful than anything else for tourist purposes because from here an ancient rack that leads to Flaam.

Before taking the train we considered a walk in the surroundings, in the middle of the snow before and between coniferous woods.
The rack journey up to Flaam was the last extraordinary part of that day of contemplation. The train stopped properly in some panoramic points, leaving us photographing waterfalls and mountains. Finally, we returned to the campsite, where we took the car looking for a place to dine. First, though, we reached a nice panoramic point on the fjord, on the road to Aurland, a village not far from Flaam.

The next day I drove up to Bergen , the second city of Norway. The bay on which it overlooks, the features and the tree-lined hills behind make a wonderful destination for a holiday, despite being one of the rainiest cities in Europe. Furthermore, the fish market offers fresh fish at a good price.

We stayed, for a 70 euro expense for a double, in the citybox, a "automatic" hostel without staff: you pass the credit card and enter. The decor was very functional, so as not to remove the impression of sleeping in a box.

Bergen was a real city, with a social life. In the evening we found not only to eat, but also a bar with live music. In the morning we left civilization again and we continued our travel itinerary in Norway through landscapes that are always pleasant by driving to Eidfjord. Admirammo The Fjord of Ulvik , so closed to look like a lake

Then, we discovered farms in panoramic positions, hundred and fifty-fifty meters waterfalls ( voringfoss ) and icy lakes.

Eidfjord is a village resting on a fjord (obviously), with beautiful colored houses . In the visit to the nearby Fattoria Kjeasen , highly recommended for the panorama offered, the sun had made us delude that even in Norway could exist. In the evening, however, the frost dropped again and our walk to Eidfjord was quite fast. In those four days of vacation we were in front of time with time: sun, fast clouds, a single short moment of drizzle. May is a great month for a holiday in Norway, with long days and frequent sunshades (headed north, in the northern northern Norwegian, the night practically does not exist, around the summer solstice).

Cenammo in un Restaurant managed by a Dutch that for some obscure reason had moved to Eidfjord, who prepared the fat and delicious pancakes while from the windows of the tavern we saw numerous bird flocks flying and crossing and playing and exchanging place on the trees. A fascinating and incomprehensible show.
The next day we left Eidfjord. Unfortunately we were at the end of our brief travel itinerary. There were 6 car hours that separated us from Oslo: even in that case it was not heavily driving between snow-covered highlands, lakes and forests. We also had the opportunity to admire the Stavkirke , a wooden church with truly original shapes.

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