Don’t look back in Geiranger

I’m still trying to come to terms with my experience of Geiranger.

The Fjord is a UNESCO world heritage site and you can see why because it’s absolutely f*******g amazing. I’m not joking, I’ve never see anything like it in my life and the day we went the weather gods rewarded us.

Waterfalls, snow, an ice lake, standing on top of a 1500m mountain, more waterfalls, seagulls and finally a good set of waterfalls. It really was a waterfall of a day and I’ll cherish it forever.

But first, onto that mountain.

When we read the precis of the trip up Mount Dalsnibba we thought it looked okay, but didn’t actually clock onto the fact that 1500m is quite high. A fact soon made real as the bus wended its way up the hairpin bends and the green landscape turned to white, temperature dropping from 25 to 9ºC.

From up there you could see right down into the Fjord, with the tiny 200 ton ships in the distance. People who live down there do regular avalanche drills because if one crashes into the Fjord, the resulting tsunami would devastate the area. Luckily they have 12 minutes to get out of there first.