Roadtrip Norway 2021 – Part 3

Hi All,
In case you missed part 2.

Days 5 was mainly 1 really nice hike and day 6 was going towards the largest glacier in continental Europe (Jostedal glacier).

A noteIf you want to see larger images, please go to the bottom and click on the images in the gallery

Day 5 (Hike up Kvamshesten / Storhesten):
Day 5 was all about 1 hike, which was to ‘climb’ Kvamshesten, also known as “Storehesten”, since it’s the highest of the mountains with the name “hesten” (= Norwegian for Horse). This hike has 2 options, the short and the long one. It was not recommended to take the short (and steep) option when you were not known, but the guy at the campsite told me that it was pretty well indicated where to go on the steep part. To be honest, where the route split, the indicator to the ‘long’ path was overgrown with plants and I didn’t see it and I took the short path. This path definitely had some steep parts where you were almost literally climbing and you should not do when you are afraid of hights.

View from the hike towards Storehseten
View from the hike towards Storehseten 2
View from the top of Storehseten towards Askvoll
View from the top of Storehseten towards Bygstad

Day 6 (Sande – Fjærland):
Today it was finally time to drive towards the large Norwegian glacier (Jostedalsbreen / Jostedal Glacier). To drive here, I spend a bit longer on the road to also drive 1 of the 18 Scenic Routes through Norway again, in this case the Gaularfjellet which had some amazing views!

Hestadfjorden
Likholefossen
Viewpoint Gaularfjellet

After taking the above pictures, I had the pleasure of driving down the road on the picture 😊

View over Sognefjord towards Menes
View over Sognefjord towards Fjærland

That was all for part 3, continue to part 4

Cheers,
Paul

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