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Fläm is a small village and the last station
in the railway (the Flämsbana) that links the
main line Oslo – Bergen from Myrdal to Sognefjorde.
From Oslo a very comfortable and modern train climbs to almost 2000 meters
and crosses the fields still covered in snow as you can see in the first lot
of photos. In Myrdal, 5 and a half hours later, we leave the train and board
the Flämsbana which took us onto an amasing train journey through tunnels and valleys. We
dropped from 1700 meters to sea level in 20 km and apparently it is the
steepest train ride without special gearing. We stayed overnight In Fläm and walked all the way to the Rjoandefossen water falls. You can see how far it was by
the length of the name…. Fläm is
situated at the end of Sognefjorde, one of the
longest fjords in Norway. The average depth of the fjord is 800 m and the deepest 1,300 meters, according to the captain
of the ferry that took us to Bergen. |
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