anticipated. Wind, rain, sleet and snow battered the van throughout
the night. Daniel declared it "cosy" whilst the others put on long
johns and extra sweaters. Never mind, after hot chocolate and omlette
for breakfast we were off, over the pass and back down to sea level
where it was a little warmer.
After stopping off at Lærdel and reading up about the transportation
challenges faced over the centuries, we headed for Borgund to view
Norway's best preserved stave church - dating back almost 1000 years.
From here we took a walk over the historic Vindhella road dating back
to 1700's with some impressive hairpin bends. It wound up a seemingly
impossible hillside with a 1:5 and sometimes 1:4 gradients.
The main road then took us back into the mountains, past the Filefjell
ski area and up to Lake Tyin. We felt as if we'd reached the shores of
the Arctic Ocean with snow and melting ice floating like icebergs as
far as the eye could see.
After stocking up on food at Øvre Årdal we found another camping spot
at the starting point for the approx 1 hour walk up to yet another
waterfall - Vettisfossen is supposed to have one of the largest
freefalls at about 300m
We finished dinner about 21:00, but there is no relaxng for this
intrepid trio; we figured we better check out this waterfall NOW
incase the weather turned again tomorrow. We were not even certain if
we were on the right track nor how far the walk actually was; but an
hour and a half later we made it to Vettisfossen.
After a week in Norway, a country of a thousand unnamed waterfalls, we
consider ourselves waterfall connoisseurs. The verdict was that this
wasn't quite as good as Latefoss. Latefoss had been one of our first
waterfalls and at 22:30 all this spray was pretty damm impressive but
a bit cold.
What was more impressive was when we got 'home' after midnight it
was still light enough to comfortably see where we were going.
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