We had a small dilemma this morning - to either continue our super
form of walking up the crazy steep mountains, or use the road that was
available for todays expedition to Kjeåsen, an 'abandoned' farm near
the town of Eidfjord.
To help our decision we couldn't actually find the start of the
walking track (I think we were all rather relieved), so it was Pat's
turn to do some work!!
It turned out that the road up was a little more interesting than the
final destination. The road consisted of number of hairpin bends,
then a 2.5 kilometre tunnel that was still too steep for Pat to get up
in anything higher than 2nd gear!! Oh, and you could only go up the
road on the hour, and down the road on the half hour to save meeting
anyone on a tight spot.
The view at the top was lovely but there wasn't much else in the way
of explaining any history about this small farm purched high up above
the fiord, and what confused us a little more was that this 'abandoned
farm' had a house that was been lived in, and sheep enjoying the view
in their respective paddocks??
Poor Pat's brakes got a little warm on the trip down, but we made it
down safely after a rest halfway and headed for the nex big attraction
- Voringfoss waterfall. I think we really have come at the best time
of year, as with all the melting snow, these waterfalls are all rather
spectacular!!
Back down the hill, across a fiord in the ferry, checked out Ulvik,
past another 50 waterfalls, took every free English pamplet out of the
Voss information centre then took in more scenery before finishing up
for the night at the world's narrowest fiord - Nærøyfjorden. Driving
along it felt like you were following a perfectly still river at
times. Our resting spot for the night was surrounded by 1000 metre
cliffs all round!!!!
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