Flaam, Gudvangen, Voss, Bergen

Tuesday , 5, July 2011 Leave a comment


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Guys. Beautacular today. For real. I took more photos today than I think I ever have ever in my life, and I took the least bad and posted them. There’s a lot more, but like.. you know, I don’t wanna go crazy. I embedded a map of where we went.

We started off in Flaam, this old, tiny little town where we did the biking yesterday. There’s not a lot to do there, so we wandered around, did some reading in the sun, skipped rocks, etc. I took off my shoes and socks and tried to wade into the water, but it was so. so. cold. Like at the end of a barbecue when you reach into the cooler with all the melted ice, but there’s still a couple of ice cubes in it, and you hold your hands in there for as long as you can, but after about ten seconds they start tingling? It was like that.

Around three we took a boat up our little leg of the big fjord we’re on (Sognefjord, fwiw) and then down a different little leg to a town called Gudvangen. At that point we switched to a bus to go to Voss, then took a train into Bergen. Nice little trip.

The point is that it was super pretty. There were so many amazing waterfalls that my dad stopped saying “Look at that beautiful waterfall” and instead assigned that sentence the codeword “6.” Whenever he saw a good waterfall (always), he’s just point and say “6.” Indeed. There was some looking to be looked.

So we’re at a hotel in Bergen with a pretty nice internet connection, so I may try to post a video or something tomorrow. Since I can. For now, here’s a bunch of photos of prettiness. Pay special attention to the sunglasses I’m wearing in the last photo. Pretty ep’.