Norway Photo Gallery - Weeks 17~18

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1 -  Ripe Lingonberries growing
 in Upper Ottadalen
2 - Lom stave church built 1170, with its dragons-head finials 3 - Gjeilo Camping on banks of
   Otta River near to Lom
4 - View from Sognfjellveg along Leirdalen towards Kyrkje peak

5 - Paul's nostalgic revisit to
Krossbu hut on the Sognfjellveg
6 - Sognefjellveg summit plateau
looking towards Fannaråki
7 -  Turtagrø mountain lodge at foot of descent from Fannaråki 8 - Looking down into upper
Sogndal valley from Sognefjellveg

 
9 - Jostedal Camping by torrent flowing from Nigardsbreen Glacier 10 - Route of guided climb
  on Nigardsbreen glacier
11 - Distant view of Jostedalsbreen and Nigardsbreen glaciers 12 - Melt-water torrent flowing from foot of Nigardsbreen glacier

 
13 - Start of the
  Nigardsbreen climb
14 - Guide leading roped group
into the ice-cave
15 - Blue luminescence
  within the ice-cave
16 - Climbing out of
  the ice-cave

 
17 - Beginning the descent route
  on Nigardsbreen glacier
18 - Among the Nigardsbreen crevasses 19 - Back at the sediment-stained foot of Nigardsbreen glacier 20 - Melt-water torrent flowing from foot of Nigardsbreen glacier

 
21 - View from Urnes across Lustrafjord towards Solvorn 22 - Urnes timber-built stave
 church dating from 1130
23 - Urnes stave church set on
 hill-side overlooking Lustrafjord
24 - Bergs Tunnel backed by
mountainous skyline of
Fjærland

 
25 - Bøyabreen Glacier lapping over
 the upper rim of Bøyadalen corrie
26 - Bøyabreen Glacier, a side-arm of Jostedalsbren 27 - Bøyabreen Glacier upper corrie
rim and ice-stub by melt-water lake
28 - Bøyum Camping in the mountain-rimmed Fjærland valley

 
29 - Norwegian Booktown village of Mundal at the head of Fjærlandfjord 30 - Book-racks by Mundal ferry-quay backed by Fjærlandfjord 31 - Among the racks of second-hand books at Mundal's Booktown 32 - Looking down over Mundal village and Fjærlandfjord

 
33 - Supphellebreen glacier with Flatbreen lapping over the corrie-brim 34 - Leading edge of Flatbreen's ice-fall lapping over corrie-brim 35 - Supphellebreen's ice-stub over-topped by Flatbreen's ice-fall 36 - Kaupanger stave church built
  amid hillside meadows in 1184

 
37 - Borgund stave church
built 1180 in Upper Lærdalen
38 - Roof supporting staves and diagonal beams at Borgund church 39 - Borgund stave church with shingle roof and dragons-head finials 40 - 18~19th century wooden buildings in Lærdalsøyi old town

 
41 - Entrance into the 24.5km
Lærdals Tunnel, the world's longest
42 - Blue-lit simulated day-light
rest-caverns in Lærdals Tunnel
43 - Flåmsbana mountain railway engineered through wild terrain 44 - Flåmsbana trains passing at
 the half-way station of Berekvan

 
45 - View from  train down into lower Flåmsdalen through tunnel openings 46 - The downward journey on the
   Flåmsbana mountain railway
47 - Undredal Camping looking
out across Aurlandsfjord
48 - 17th C artwork on barrel-
vaulted ceiling of Undredal church

 
49 - Picnic lunch by the ferry pier during our happy stay at Undredal 50 - Cheese-making goat farm
at the head of Undredalen
51 - Inner Nærøyfjord viewed
from Gudvangen ferry-dock
52 - Vang Camping at Gudvangen
 in the depths of Nærøydalen
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