I thought it was funny that we decided to have our summer holiday on a place where there is still snow. It was not really summery in the mountains of Norway. It wasn't even hot on the sea level, but warm. Which in a way is good. Car trips in colder areas are more pleasant than in hot ones.
The highest place where we visited was in bit less than 2000 meters (6500 feet) from the sea level. Up there were very litle anything growing. No trees, just grass. Because the fjords are formed like they are we drove up and down and up and down again. Our ears were popping from all the pressure changes.
There was still quite a lot of snow. In Stryn area there is even one ski center that is only open from spring to mid summer since on winter there is too much snow.
Sun was melting the snow fast and we saw amazing waterfalls. And we saw those everywhere.
In Finnish we have a saying that "Small streams make a large river". Is there similar in English? I tried to google about it but couldn't find anything. Anyway the saying really was visible in the mountains in Norway. The closer to sea level we went the bigger the creeks got.
While we were looking for a cabin for the next night just south from Oppdal we accidentally bumped on river which was the scaryest but yet most beautiful rapid I've ever seen. It was called Magalaupe. It had huge potholes which were formed in the ice age and the water raged through deep grooves in the rock. I'm afraid our photos show no respect to the actually fearsomeness of the rapid.
I made a map of the route we drove on our trip. Click on the Google map and you can zoom in. I marked all the places we spent a night in with blue and also marked a few of the best places with yellow.
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The scenery is breathtaking! Love all your photos especially the ones with the waterfalls...
ReplyDeleteI like those more too. Eventhough up on the mountains the scenery was suberb, but it's difficult to take pictures of the openess and harsness, also it was usually cloudy on the mountains so pictures didn't end up as sharp.
Deletesuper duper cute!! i love it :)
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DeleteThose water falls look amazing.
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DeleteI really appreciate the map. What an interesting trip. There are afe places here in the Rockies which have stone that looks similiar to Magalaupe. There's softer stone in bewteen which the water wear away. Amazing force of the water--and yes, difficult to capture! You did well-gorgeous photos.
ReplyDeleteI think I've seen pictures of the rock formations in the Rockies. I'd love to visit there too. There are so many amazing places in the world, if we just had enough time and money!
DeleteI've never heard a saying like that in English, but I like it! The pictures are gorgeous and the map was a great touch. Do you know which photo(s) you are going to put on display in your home yet?
ReplyDeleteThe saying usually refers to money like "save a penny there and there and soon you've saved a whole dollar"
Delete:) No, I don't know yet. I would like to have something really huge on some wall but those prints are quite expensive and I'd like to be really sure to pic the perfect one. And that could take some time to deside. Also there have been so many other trips with amazing pictures too. Gaa! too many options.
So pretty pictures! My parents visited Norway recently too and showed me their photos, and I would SO much like to go there and see all those beautiful places. Why is the world so big and there is so little time and money?!!
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