Norway - Day 3 Fjord Tour

On July 6th, we woke up to the "ship d' jour". Another cruise ship arrived about 7AM. It was not a large as the QE2.

Today, we decided to take a half day Fjord tour on the ferry. We left Flam and sailed through the Aurlandsfjord and into the Naeroyfjord, which is the narrowest fjord in Europe. We had wonderful weather, calm waters, and fabulous views.


It took about 2 hours each direction. Some of the villages in the Fjord, Drydal, are only accessible by boat. One person got off in Drydal and it appeared that the entire community came out to meet her. It appeared to be a "commune".

The Naeroyfjord is about 18km long and only 6km is covered by roads and on just one side.

On the return portion of our tour, the seagulls followed our ferry almost all the way back to Flam as passengers were feeding the birds. Several times we had to move or duck out of the way of seagull droppings.

After we finished our tour, we drove to Aurland and found accomodation for our final two nights. Then we continued on and took a small car ferry to Sogndal area. We had booked accomodations in Balastran but found a place in Sogndal and were able to cancel our the reservations. After being in Norway for a few days we decided that we would enjoy this area more and looked forward to the next day when we would hike to a glacier.

To view more photos of this portion of our trip, click here.