Traveling by car through picturesque western Norway

Norway a car trip from Belgium. Getting on the boat in Kiel Germany, to arrive in Oslo the next morning.
Visited in early September. We were lucky with the nice weather.
The locations below are places we stayed overnight, with beautiful sights driving there. Some locations we spent one other two days overnight.
Nature in norway is breathtakingly beautiful, the fjords, the reflection of the mountains in the water, … it is a painting you are not going to forget easily.
Flå
-
Bjørneparken
Bjørneparken , formerly Vassfaret Bjørnepark , is a zoo with Norwegian predators , wild deer and domestic animals . The park is 267 acres and is located right by Flå in Hallingdal , close to Vassfaret . The park also has activities such as an obstacle course, playground equipment and a newly opened roller coaster. Indoors there is a large playroom with a climbing frame, a predator center and Norway's largest crocodile land. In the spring of 20 …
Geilo
-
Prestholtskarvet
Prestholtskarvet is a peak on the southeastern part of Hallingskarvet , in Hol municipality in Buskerud . The peak has an elevation of 1,859 meters above sea level.
-
Prestholtseter
Prestholtseter a farm cafe based on traditions. Prestholtseter is located by Hallingskarvet at 1242 m, by Hallingskarvet National Park. It is a popular destination both summer and winter. The café offers waffles, buns, the local specialties "lefsekling" (thin, sheet bread), "Rummebrød" (thin cakes made with sour cream), cakes, omelets, buns and rolls. In summer you can also get cured meats and tasty sour cream porridge By Prestholt …
-
Geilo beach ( Ustedalsfjorden )
Ulvik
-
Hardangerfjord
The Hardangerfjord (English: Hardanger Fjord) is the fifth longest fjord in the world, and the second longest fjord in Norway. It is located in Vestland county in the Hardanger region. The fjord stretches 179 kilometres (111 mi) from the Atlantic Ocean into the mountainous interior of Norway along the Hardangervidda plateau. The innermost point of the fjord reaches the town of Odda.
-
Vøringsfossen
Vøringsfossen (English: Vøring Falls) is the 83rd highest waterfall in Norway on the basis of total fall. It lies at the top of the Måbødalen valley in the municipality of Eidfjord, in Vestland county. It is located near Norwegian National Road 7, which connects Oslo with Bergen. It has a total drop of 182 metres (597 ft), and a major drop of 163 metres (535 ft). It is perhaps the most famous in the country and a major tourist attraction …
Bergen
-
Fløibanen
The Fløibanen is a funicular railway, owned by Fløibanen AS, in the Norwegian city of Bergen. It connects the city centre with the mountain of Fløyen, with its mountain walks and magnificent views of the city. It is one of Bergen's major tourist attractions and one of Norway's most visited attractions. The line is 848 m (2,782 ft) long, covers a height difference of 302 m (991 ft), and carries nearly two million passengers a year.
-
Bryggen
Bryggen (the dock), also known as Tyskebryggen is a series of Hanseatic heritage commercial buildings lining up the eastern side of the Vågen harbour in the city of Bergen, Norway. Bryggen has been on the UNESCO list for World Cultural Heritage sites since 1979.
Dragsvik
-
Norsk BreMuseum
The Norwegian Glacier Museum (Norwegian: Norsk Bremuseum) is a museum in Fjærland, Vestland county, Norway. The building was designed by architect Sverre Fehn. In 2002 a decision was made to build an extension to the museum, which was also designed by Fehn. The museum also houses the Ulltveit-Moe Climate Centre, a Fehn-designed addition that opened in 2007.
-
Gaularfjellet
Gaularfjellet is a mountain area in central Vestland county, Norway. The mountains is crossed by the border between the municipalities of Sunnfjord and Sogndal. Norwegian County Road 613 (formerly County Road 13, Norwegian National Road 13 and Norwegian National Road 5) crosses the mountains through a pass that follows the river Gaula, and has a hairpin road. Before the Høyanger tunnel was opened in 1982, a ferry over the fjord or the road over …
-
St. Olaf’s Church
St. Olaf's Church (Nynorsk: St. Olafs kyrkje and Den engelske kyrkja, "The English Church") is an Anglican church in the village of Balestrand in Sogndal Municipality in the county of Vestland in Norway. The church was built in 1897 as a stave church imitation and has 95 seats. St. Olaf's Church is notable as the inspiration for the chapel in Elsa's coronation scene in the 2013 Disney film Frozen.
Loen
-
Loen Skylift
Loen Skylift is one of the steepest cable cars in the world and lifts you a thousand meters almost straight up - to the restaurant on the edge of Mt. Hoven. Up here, you come into close contact with the mighty nature. Whether you sit inside the comfortable amphitheater in the restaurant, stand up on the roof or go hiking in the mountains up here, you get a nature experience on the edge of what you thought was possible. From fjord to sky in 5.
Valldal
-
Trollstigen
Trollstigen (or trollstigvegen; English: The troll path) is a serpentine mountain road and pass in Rauma Municipality, Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of Norwegian County Road 63 that connects the town of Åndalsnes in Rauma and the village of Valldal in Norddal Municipality. It is a popular tourist attraction due to its steep incline of 10% and eleven hairpin bends up a steep mountainside. During the top tourist season, about 2,50 …
-
Gudbrandsjuvet
Gudbrandsjuvet is a river gorge in the Valldøla River in Fjord Municipality (formerly Norddal ) in Sunnmøre . Visitor centers and viewing platforms are part of the National Tourist Route along County Road 63 from Geiranger to Trollstigen . County Road 63 crosses the river by bridge over the gorge. Gudbrand Bridge is a dry-walled stone arch bridge built in 1919 as part of the main road Valldal-Romsdal. The stone arch bridge replaced an old bridg …
Ålesund
-
Alnes Lighthouse
Alnes lighthouse was established in 1852 to guide fishing boats safely to the harbor of the small fishing community of Alnes on Godøy island on the west coast of Norway. It is located on the north side of Godøy island in the municipality of Giske in Møre og Romsdal county, about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) northwest of Leitebakk.
Farstad
-
Vinnufossen
Vinnufossen or Vinnufallet is one of the tallest waterfalls in Europe and the eighth-tallest in the world. The 845 m (2,772 ft) tall tiered horsetail waterfall is located just east of the village of Sunndalsøra in the municipality of Sunndal in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The falls are part of the Vinnu river which flows down from the Vinnufjellet mountain and it is fed from the Vinnufonna glacier. The falls flow into the Driva river near t …
-
Atlantic ocean road
The Atlantic Ocean Road or the Atlantic Road (Norwegian: Atlanterhavsvegen / Atlanterhavsveien) is an 8.3-kilometer (5.2 mi) long section of County Road 64 that runs through an archipelago in Hustadvika and Averøy municipalities in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It passes by Hustadvika, an unsheltered part of the Norwegian Sea, connecting the island of Averøy with the mainland and Romsdalshalvøya peninsula. It runs between the villages o …
Skåbu
-
Valdresflye
Valdresflye, also spelled Valdresflya and Valdresflyi, is a mountain plateau in the easternmost part of the Jotunheimen mountains in Norway. The plateau lies in Innlandet county, mostly in Øystre Slidre Municipality, but a small area extends into Vang Municipality as well. The Norwegian County Road 51 runs over the plateau, reaching 1,389 meters (4,557 ft) above mean sea level, but this road is only open in the summers. A drive wi …
Oslo
-
National Museum of Norway
The National Museum (Norwegian: Nasjonalmuseet, officially the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design) is a museum in Oslo, Norway which holds the Norwegian state's public collection of art, architecture, and design objects. The collection totals over 400,000 works, amongst them the first copy of Edvard Munch's The Scream from 1893. The museum is state-owned and managed by the Norwegian Ministry of Culture.