Neither these few written comments or the pictures will begin to do justice to the amazing Norway Fjords. And notice we specifically mention the fjords, because if one would travel to Norway and not travel into the fjord region, then it would be like driving up to the entrance of Disney World and turning around and going home.
The mixture of the fjords with the snow-capped mountains, the quaint homes very small villages along the fjords, majestic waterfalls, boats and ferries, trains, endless number of tunnels, glaciers and even ice covered (in June) mountain lakes makes travel through this area just so special. And yes, we were fortunate enough to even see reindeer; our tour escort who had made hundreds of trips through this area could only remember seeing reindeer in this area a couple of other times.
The Norwegian people are very genuine and friendly. The speak good English. The service at all hotels and restaurants was as fabulous as the accommodations and the food.
And do you want to get away to where it is quiet; in the little village of Balestrand we went for a 40 minutes walk on the main road one morning and saw one car.
Its easy to see why National Geographic often rank the Fjords of Norway as the number one tourist destination in the world. We were very blessed to have been able to visit!
The pictured Stave Church was built in 12th century. The top of the ski jump is the site of the 1994 Winter Olympics at Lillehammer. They were doing practice jumps while we were there; we passed when they offered to let us a take a jump or two! Some of the pictures are from our hotel rooms.
1 comment:
Hallo,
Sweet! The picture with the reflection of the mountains and the small boat is great.
Lucky you!
Rich
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