Day 5 of our trip to Norway. As it’s Sunday, it’s fairly quiet. Which was just as well, because today we had a long drive to Bergen and it was good not to have to contend with a lot of traffic. What did we learn today?
That a great part of Norway’s surface area is lakes and fjords. And that Norwegians do waterfalls like no one else on earth! As N pointed out, any Norwegian visiting Australia would find it incredibly funny to see what we classify as a waterfall. Now this, for example, is a waterfall – and we drove right through it! The power of the Latefoss waterfall was awe-inspiring and terrifying. And we were standing on the road right under it!
And this was the other side of the bridge – a real contrast.
We also learned that it’s hard to take a bad shot – even from a moving car – in Norway:
We learned that Norwegians like to build tunnels. This was the longest of the many, many tunnels we passed through today. It was a tunnel just out of the zinc smelting town, Odda and it was 11km long:
We learned that Norwegians rely heavily on large car ferries to get them from one side of a fjord to another – and that they’re very affordable and pleasant to sail on:
When we had almost reached Bergen we decided to make a short detour to a small village called Salthus to visit an old knitting mill. It was interesting to see a small coastal village and learn about its economic history before and after industrialisation and the huge impact of its now defunct mill.
And that’s it for today. It was time to continue onto Bergen and book into our hotel. More about Bergen tomorrow!
