Else, myself and three friends spend seven days driving our cars around parts of the west coast of Norway. The places we stopped at along the way were, Geiranger, Aure, Namsos, Offersøy, Saltstraumen, Verdal, then returned to Oslo. It was around 3000 km of driving! For the full route check out the map below.
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Highlights of the trip included:
- Borgund Stave Church
- Bøyabreen og Supphellebreen – glaciers
- Gieranger Fjord – even though it was fogged in!
- Trollstigen – one of Norway’s most famous roads
- The Atlantic Road – another of Norway’s most famous roads
- Route 17 – on the Norwegian west coast
- Svartisen – Norway’s second highest glacier
- Crossing the Arctic Circle twice
- Midnight sun
- The Seven Sisters – mountain range
- Saltstraumen – worlds strongest maelstrom
- Seeing the Hurtigruten boats at least four times
- Twelve ferry crossings!
- Getting a blow out 200 km from Trondheim and having to drive on the space saver spare tyre to buy a new tyre.
- Nidarosdomen Cathedral
All the places we stayed at were great. It seems the secret to cheap accommodation in Norway is to rent cabins, which is exactly what we did! My favourite place to stay was Offersøy. Great cabin with a view over the water, and it was nice and relaxed! For those of you with access check out all the photos in the gallery here.
Also as a bonus I managed to make eleven different beautiful landscape wallpapers you can download at full resolution and use on your computer if you want! Get them here.




