Another two post day because of the amazing amount of scenery. This one tops the charts, however. It is singularly the most beautiful place on earth. “Wow” was the word I used over and over again to describe it, even when looking at the same thing. Looking out from the ship, you swore it was a movie backdrop because it was just too beautiful.
I woke at 6 AM, knowing we’d be in the fjord itself by that time, and as much as I wanted to go back to sleep, I forced a look out the window. That woke me up immediately. This is the first view I had, and we were still 4 hours from setting anchor.
View from the balcony, day 13
We just kept passing spectacular scenes. Cliffs, waterfalls, and the occasional house perched on the side of the fjord. I was so glad to have not missed this.
One of the many lesser falls. The fjord reaches up to 6000 feet high and 1000 feet deep.
This one emerges from a cleft
Falls a’plenty
Rounding a bend
And then we finally emerged at the end of the fjord, one of Norway’s longest, to the village of Geiranger. We scheduled the tour to the Eagle Road overlook and then up to Mt. Dalsnibba at around 5000’, and I had been a bit bummed about the low overcast, but then something strange happened after breakfast. There was a bright yellow object in the sky.
Geiranger. Mt. Dalsnibba is the lump showing way in the center background.This is a popular RV destination.
Looking right of Geiranger
Looking back up the fjord
The little village shown in the above picture is camps, but people live there year round, and it is cut off from town by road in winter due to avalanches. Two roads lead here, the Eagle Road and the Geiranger Road (heading towards Dalsnibba), the latter of which is closed in winter. Indeed, I have seen postcards with 15 foot walls of snow with a bus going through once it does open in late spring. Crazy!
Like the Grand Canyon, pictures cannot possibly convey the true beauty of this place, you just have to see it for yourself, including the fjord by boat or kayak. And this was only the beginning of the day.
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