We left Bergen early on Tuesday morning for Myrdal which we reached after three hours of watching exhiliarating country pass by.At Myrdal we changed over to the Flam railway. This is a private company which runs one of the worlds most amazing lines descending nearly 900 metres down into the little village of Flam which sits at he head of the Aurlandsfjord.The journey takes an hour and covers 20 kms,through 20 tunnels and it took 20 years to build.On the way down a stop is made at a viewing platform at the Kjosfossen Falls pictured above. During this stop music comes up from the falls and two maidens dressed in traditional Norwegian costumes appear from the rocks and dance. This is part of folklore.
On arrival at Flam we disembarked and were faced with the site of a giant cruise ship moored almost on the end of the rail line. As we had a few hours before retracing our steps to Myrdal where we were to catch the service to Oslo, we went for a walk up part of the valley and caught a great view look up the fjord and this put the size of the cruise ship in perspective.
The Oslo train arrived right on time and we sat back and enjoyed our five and a half journey over some incredible snowfields, and fin ally a 13 km tunnel into Oslo. A taxi ride took us to our hotel where we booked in at 11pm still with plenty of daylight left!
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