Today we took a road trip around a bit of Western Norway, about a third of which was through tunnels. As the only tourists in the fjord region we found that there were no running ferries, which is the traditional way to see the fjords. Instead we improvised our own trip and saw some of the lesser publicized fjords. Today's itinerary included the following towns:
Voss: the adverture sports town is the home of the ski resort we are visiting tomorrow so we stopped in to see the town and grab a latte after skirting the Sorfor fjord;
Ulvick: the jumping off point for many fjord excursions in the summer season, the town's information office seemed surprised to see us stop by for some driving routes in the area;
Osa: a small settlement at the terminus of a small fjord, we are probably the only tourists that have made it to this outpost at the end of a cliff-hanging road, shadowed by ice and snowy cliffs;
Eidfjord: a scenic and touristic town that is now accessible by a new suspension bridge that joins that existing 8km tunnel in an underground rotary, we visited to see what was supposed to be a large waterfall. Unfortunatley, we took one wrong turn and ended up on a 7km spiraling climb up a mountain through snaking tunnels. By the time we could turn around the sun was fading and the road conditions at the mountain top were icy and snowy. And we never did find that waterfall.
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