Ok finally me and my roomie decided to explore Norway and its beautiful fjords. I had researched a lot on what to see in Norway and there were so many places I wanted to visit. We booked the tickets for the famous "Norway in Nutshell" tour. This would take us from Oslo-Myrdal-Flam-Gudvangen-Stalheim-Voss-Bergen-Oslo.
As we started the journey from the Oslo Terminal, it was really exciting and cold. The train from Oslo-Bergen was voted the best among the top 20 railway lines during 1999.The morning shivers and the excitement made it more interesting. I had my camera all ready for any nice capture from the train. :)
The train passed over a few places on the outskirts of Oslo and after a while I could see snow for the first time in my life. It felt so fresh and bright!!! Although i captured a few snaps of the snow, the best moment was when we reached Finse which has a station 1222 meters above sea level. Everything except the tracks were covered in snow. There was a heavy breeze blowing and everyone in the train was excited by the beautiful sight. We got a couple of minutes to get down of the train and have the touch of snow!!!
Ah.. here you go with a nice picture of Finse station.
This was one of the best travel experiences for me. After a few minutes, the train driver announced that there is a glacier on our right side and boy was it not beautiful. You should see it for yourself below!
Isnt it beautiful? And dont fail to see those small houses at the bottom of that picture. How I wish to stay there for a week drinking beer along with coffee. Travelling around to see the beautiful snow capped mountains.
As we were approaching the Myrdal station we had a glimpse of a beautiful snow capped mountain. It seemed as though that mountain is a part of heaven. A place where there is nothing regarding your daily jobs, no news of killings, no news of political instability!
Finally we reached Myrdal where we had to change the train to travel to one of the most exciting train journeys in the world and the most beautiful one! Since the train from Bergen got delayed by 1 hour, we had some time to explore the beautiful sights surrouning Myrdal.
Myrdal seemed to be inbetween mountains and we were left alone in between from the outside world. It seemed that we were in a valley of several mountains around us.
There are so many pictures which I can show you all, but probably you have to visit my photo album.
But i cannot resist myself from including one more picture for this post as it would seem injustice to one of the best trains' Flambana. This train starts from 800 mts above sea level and reached 2 meters above sea level in 20 kms. It takes around 1 hour to reach Flam from Myrdal.
This train is a cable pulled train and is the first of its kind in the world. The train stops at the best locations so that people can enjoy the beautiful mountains and waterfalls. One of them is the Kjosfossen waterfall.
We finally reached Flam from where we had to board a ferry. Reaching Flam seemed like reaching a new world alltogether, it was in the center of many mountains and so peaceful and beautiful. See for yourself the beauty of Flam and my photography. :)))
From Flam through the Fjords... will continue!!!
Happy Reading!
