Waterfalls everywhere
October 1st, 2005
Diane and I started our 2 day trip to hardanger on Friday. We drove along the northern side of Hardangerfjord first to Granvin, then to Osa, with the ferry from Bruravik to Brimnes and finally to the hotel in Eidfjord.
Saturday morning we reached our main destination: Vøringsfossen. The highest waterfall in Norway with a free fall of over 180 meters. We saw it from the tourist platforms on the top and it was already quite impressive. In a brochure I had read about a path along the river in the valley to the foot of the waterfall. The path is not easy to find: you have to park the car on the side of the road right at the top of MÃ¥bøtunnelen and then walk along a small pedestrian road that leads you to the river path. The hike was quite rocky, but the view from the bottom of Vøringsfossen all the more impressive and we got to walk over a very cool “Indiana Jones”-like swinging bridge.
On the road back we stopped by on the bank of Sørfjorden to have some sandwhiches and continued through Odda and the 11km long tunnel Folgefonntunnelen. At Løfallsstranda we missed the ferry by 5 minutes and had to wait for 1h20 before setting over the Kvinnheradsfjorden and driving home to Bergen through narrow roads in the dark under pouring rain.
You’ll find the map of the trip at carwalks.com.
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