Northern Norway Flåm Railway

This excursion started with a train journey, then a bus, then a ferry and then we ascended 846m by train. The views from all 4 were spectacular.

There is so little fjord traffic that the water surface had frozen: the boat's wake pushed water, broken ice, and air under and over the sheet ice - it looked amazing

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The harbour at Flåm - and a village closed until the season starts again in May!

There had been 15 of us on the ferry, but 4 stayed in Flåm, so just 11 of us on the train up the mountain. The track took 20 years to build: 18 tunnels all cut by hand - each metre took a month to cut!

The original village of Flåm

 

The two horizontal lines you can see here are the train lines higher up the mountain

A beautiful waterfall - frozen

looking down into the valley