Bergen, a fjord cruise and an epic railway journey
We spent the next couple of days in the Folgefonna National park, home to the third largest glacier in Norway. One hike led to a serene little lake and up the mountain in steep serpentines to another one. The lower lake is very popular, since the path is pretty level and even, but there was no one at all at the one higher up! The other trailhead was down a long and winding, single lane road, then up a 20% incline, snaking its way up the mountain in tight curves. From there a 6km track lead through a rocky valley and over a slightly swinging bridge to end at the foot of Svalgabreen, one of the arms of the Folgefonna glacier. To the left in the background, that´s the glacier The weather has been sort of cooperative now for a couple of days and it looked to stay that way for a little longer. Which bode nicely for our visit in Bergen, Norway´s second largest city with close to 300.000 inhabitants. Bergen is another stop on most cruise ship routes, which was evident immediately - the c...