View from cabin at 5:30am.

6:15am sailing the Fjord to Hellesylt.

Different view during sail in at 5:15am.

6:30am sail in... view from my veranda.

6:30am sail in... wider view from my veranda.

Hellesylt Looking Back At Ship

Walking into Hellesylt from Tender

Downtown Hellesylt

Sheep Allowed to Roam Freely Throughout the Area

View on Way from Hellesylt to Hornindal

Local Bus Stop. The gate keeps the sheep out, the area free of sheep dung and keeps the sheep from bothering people at the bus stop.

This rock is known as Giftessteinem. The hole in the rock is a natural formation. The local myth is that brides pass thru the hole and if they don't make it, they are pregnant.

Sod roof not just a traditional roof. Often new construction includes a sod roof. Roof is lined with birch bark and sod is placed on top of the bark. It is cool in the summer and warm in the winter.

Alpacha from The Bus

The Raftevolds Hotel built in 1867 and occupied by the Germans. It is a Best Western today.

Seen in Gordis Sheep roaming new housing tractor eggs (bailed hay in lower left of picture)

Hornindal Lake, 514 meters deep, is the deepest lake in Northern Europe. If it were drained, The Raftevolds Hotel would look like a mountain lodge (according to legend there is a lake monster, Horny). Fantastic trout fishing... King fished there last week.

Wild Flowers

Sculpture garden in Hornindal is important because it is the first museum in Norway dedicated to a single artist (created 1950s).

Grocery Store in Hornindal

Frozen and Dairy Section

I came all the way to Norway to discover Coke's BFF Advertising Campaign

Norwegian Names on the Bottles

Share a Coke with Frode!

Stone bridge built in 1810 with no mortar held together by it's own weight

Stryn City Square

Streets of Stryn

Visnes Hotel was built in 1810 as a family home. They began renting individual rooms in 1850 and it officially became a hotel in 1890.

Visnes Hotel Dining Room (lunch)

Scenery from bus going from Stryn to Geiranger

Summer ski resort closed because there is not enough snow. The day was gloomy, rainy and very cloudy.

Pond by the ski resort

Stacked stone on stone legend that if you create a stacked stone pile, you will come back to Norway (taken from inside the bus)

Sod House. House is filled with sod in the summer and fall. In the spring they put the black soil (absorbs heat from the sun) on the snow to melt it faster (picture from the bus).

View from Dalsnibba (Crystal Symphony white dot in middle of the picture)

Rock pilings known by locals as "Troll Turds"

The proverbial Gift Shop and Giant Troll

This guy rode to the top of Dalsnibba from Geiranger (up 1500meters/5,000 ft above sea level). It took him 3.5 hours. I saw him in town later and it took him 45 minutes to ride down including making several stops along the way for pictures.

Group of Milk Maid Cabins. Cows roam free and the milk maids come up, spend the day milking the cows and the maids stay here overnight.

Crystal Symphony on the right. Picture is taken at half way point down from Dalsnibba to Geiranger.

Obligatory Pilot Ship Picture

Dalsnibba point peaking through the clouds Geiranger below

Private farm beside Seven Sisters Water Fall. Can only be reached by boat, hiking up the side of the mountain and eventually up a ladder. At one time when the tax assessor came, the farmer raised the ladder to prevent his land from being acessessed.

Seven Sisters Waterfall (during sail out).

Whisky Bottle Falls

Seven Sisters (left) and Whiskey Bottle (right)