Hordaland is the third largest county in Norway. Me and my friend Guillaume had plan an itinerary to do it, but some unexpected things happened and we needed to change our plans. We made it in three days. So, I will make this first article for 1.5 days and a second one to tell you the end.
First day:
We left Bergen on the first Tuesday of November with a car rent at the airport. Our first stop was Flam, a little city in the north. We decided to do a hike to see a waterfall. It was nice but instead of 1hour of hiking we made 3hours because of the markup. In fact, at the tourist information they said “you just have to follow the red arrow”. The problem was that the red arrow go to the top of a high mountain. Nevertheless, the hike was nice, we just finished it in the dark because an early sunset (5pm).
Norwegians are very fond of hike. In many cities, you have an information panel with all the possibilities to hike. I made some and even when the difficulty is green, you need to have hiking shoes. I slip down several times with my running shoes. We saw in Vandal, one black hike of 18hours!
After the hike, we went to Stegastein to spend the night and eat. Our project was to sleep in the car, we had taken blankets from our apartment.
Second day:
At 8am we discover a wonderful view without any other tourists!
After a breakfast, we drove in the direction of Ustaoset with our little Toyota. Ustaoset is close to Finse, the highest point of the Norwegian Railway System at 1 222 meters above sea level. But, there is no car road to go to Finse, that’s why we decided to go to the closest city, Ustaoset.
We discovered the city and those amazing landscapes during the path between Oslo and Bergen in train one month ago.
But we didn’t think about how the road will be. Certainly, it was magnificent in train with all the snow but in car it’s not the same:
You will discover in the next episode what we have decided to do!
