HAL Tour - , Best of Skjolden, which didn’t show us much of the hamlet, but lots of the mountains and surrounding area. We passed the ice-blue Lake Fantesteinsvatnet before climbing about 4,700 feet through the Breheimen National Park to Northern Europe’s highest pass at Sognefjell Mountain. Along the way we saw many stone cairns, called varde, which marked safe trails over the passes. We lost ...
To get to Skjolden we journeyed down the longest fjord in Norway, and one of the longest in the world, the Sognefjord. The village of Skjolden was at the very end of the fjord which took about eight hours of cruising from open water to get to! Needless to say, if you can get up early to experience some of the journey before you get to Skjolden, it's worth it! When we arrived the weather wasn't ...