Norway day 9 pt2

The southern end of the 63 to Geiranger is only 8 miles or so from the end of the Gamle Strynesfellweg, which in 2011 is marked with a burnt out german bomber????


The road to Geiranger starts off following a frozen lake opposite a sheer cliff face virtually all the way to the Diupvasshytta cafe.


Past the cafe and shortly you start dropping down via a few switchbacks until you get to the Flydalsjuvet viewpoint with one of the worlds most famous views


In the picture, theres a cruise ship in and its pointing at the far shore which, if you can make it out, the zigzags of the hairpins on the Ornevegen start, and that's where I'm of next, stopping 2/3 up to catch some more magnificent views of the Geiranger Fiord





For the sake of it I travel the rest of the way to the ferry landing at Eidsdalen, then turn around and do the whole thing in reverse, but this time turning off at the Diupvasshytte to go up the 8 mile spur to the Dalsnibba viewpoint. It's a toll road with the princely sum of 100nok, but the views at the top are worth it, as is the very dusty gravel road with hairpins for the last 4 miles, not so good if your following a bus as you and it disappear in a dust cloud- visibilty nil.





As I'm going back along the frozen lake towards the junction with 15, six reindeer run across the road and onto the lake. I manage to stop and get camera out before they're behind me and away.


So, these signs aren't talking bollocks after all. Should know really with the amount of deer we've come across in Scotland