Train from Oslo to Bergen

We woke up super early Thursday morning and dragged our luggage to the train station. We took a train from Oslo for five hours to a city in the mountains called Myrdal. This was super high up - much of the area we were in was above the tree line, and covered in snow still, and people still lived up there!
From Myrdal we took a train down to a city called Flam. This is a really famous railway because it goes down the side of a fjord and is really steep with some awesome views. It was really amusing too because everyone kept switching sides of the train and every time we came out of a tunnel it was like playing peekaboo.

At Flam, we took a boat for two hours through a tiny finger of the inner fjord. It was raining and freezing, and full of a giant group of Chinese tourists, so it was kind of miserable and crowded but we survived. I put a picture of a map of the part we went on, compared to the whole fjord to show an idea of how giant these are!
we took a boat from Flam, on the bottom right to Gudvangen, on the bottom left. It took about two hours.

my finger is right underneath that horseshoe that is in the above picture.

We got off the boat in Gudvangen, and took a bus up the other side of the fjord, which was probabl my favorite part. It was super steep and winding, and gave us some amazing views of the fjord. None of my pictures do any of this justice though, so I didn't take toooo many.


This is video from the bottom of the fjord right before we got onto the bus..

.The view from the bus back towards the water on one of our switchbacks.


Then we got off at Voss, and took a train on to Bergen. In total, this trip took about 13 hours so we went straight to bed after taking nice warm showers.This is from the train between Voss and Bergen


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