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The Jostedals Glacier

The Jostedals Glacier

The Jostedals Glacier

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Explore the Hanseatic delights of Bergen; discover Oslo with its extraordinary Vigeland sculpture park; cruise on the world’s longest fjord and through Western Norway’s archipelago; stop off at old working farms for a glimpse of Norwegian life and take in the extraordinary Flåm mountain railway.

A highlight of this arrangement is a trip along the Fjaerlandsfjord, which leeches off the Sognefjord and at whose head is the Jostedalsbreen glacier, the longest glacier in Continental Europe. Apart from their sheer awesomeness glaciers are visible barometers of climate change with the finger glaciers behaving individually and idiosyncratically: Nigardsbreen is virtually unaffected whilst other glacier arms are melting away. The Norwegian Glacier Museum is a superb example of what a museum should be with a multi screen film presentation of the glacier filmed from a helicopter and exhibits showing a glacier to be much more than a blob of ice.

DAY 1: UK– BERGEN

Scheduled SAS flight from UK to Bergen , self transfer and overnight at Hotel Rica for 2 nights.

DAY 2: BERGEN

Day at leisure. Sitting in the embrace of its seven mountains and latticed by fjords, this charming Hanseatic harbour town is a delight. Bryggen, the medieval quayside and Troldhaugen, Edvard Grieg’s home, are probably Bergen’s best known attractions. The view from the top of Mount Floyen is truly breathtaking.

DAY 3: BERGEN-BALESTRAND

By high speed  ferry out and along the skerry littered  coastline before turning  into the Sognefjord and disembarking  at the village of Balestrand. Hotel bus transfer to Midtnes Pension. Dinner at Hotel.

DAY 4: JOSTEDALSBREEN GLACIER

By ferry along The Fjaerlandsfjord to the head of the fjord and a short bus ride to the Glacier Museum  for a  self-tutorial  on glaciers including their relevance as barometers of climate change. Thereafter a choice of glacier excursions (payable locally) before returning to Balestrand. Dinner at the hotel.

DAY 5: BALESTRAND-FLAM

By ferry to Flam on  the  opposite side of the Sognefjord and check in at Hotel Freheim. Afternoon at leisure before early   evening  excursion along the Aurland and Naeroyfjord with stops where seals, porpoises and eagles are known to breed as well as Undredal whose goat population (500) exceeds its human one (85). Dinner at hotel.

DAY 6: FLAM-OSLO

Ride  up the awe inspiring Flam valley on the mountain railway with its vertiginous 1 in 18 gradient and at Myrdal board the Bergensbanen for  a journey across the ‘Roof  of Norway’ to Oslo. Overnight at Hotel Victoria.

DAY 7: OSLO-UK

Morning at leisure before SAS return flight to UK.