The night before, I had a short, interrupted and jet laggy night's sleep. This did allow me to take a time lapse video of the sunrise (as described in a previous post).
We had breakfast, took a couple of pictures from around the Juvet grounds and then I took a nap for two hours.
After the nap, we decided to check out of our room at Juvet before heading to Geiranger Norway for dinner, since we had to leave at 4am the following morning.
Mistake #1: I checked out, swiped my credit card for like a hundred thousand Kroner or something and then checked the total cost on xe.com. "Hey," I said to Krista, "it is a lot more than I was expecting." We looked at the website and hadn't realized that the price for the room was per person.
There was a funny feeling like, "I wish I'd known, because I would have appreciated it more." But that's a silly thought. I appreciated the HELL out of this place. The room was awesome, the view was unbeatable, hike was amazing, food delicious, etc etc etc. In the end, we realized we would not have booked it, if we'd read the website correctly, but we're thrilled we got to stay here and CAN afford it, with some doing. Happy accident #1.
Ok, off to dinner.
The GPS told us that Geiranger (a UNESCO World Heritage site) was about an hour away. Ok, a little longer than we expected a "nearby" town to be, but it'll be worth it. I mean, everything we see is flipping gorgeous. There must be a kaboobillion trees in Norway. So green and lush. So beautiful! An hour is fine! So, we drive for 30 minutes and it says to exit left down a road...
Mistake #2: A ferry! Oh, crap. The ferry is here, people are lined up to board. Does this cost money? We don't have any Kroner. Is this the right ferry? Do we want to find another route to the town? Oh, they're leaving. We missed it. "Let's blow off dinner and drive around." I do a quick lap around the parking area and we find that there is no other route to Geiranger. We decide to be brave and take the ferry when it comes back...in 30 minutes!
We boarded the ferry first, paid with card (something like $14 each way) and didn't think twice about it.
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First in line |
The drive to Geiranger was STUNNING, windy (like curvy), and fun.
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| Little rainbow |
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| Grass roofs (that word doesn't seem right to me). It's making a comeback! |
Geiranger is a cute waterside (fjord-side) town. Most shops were closed because we arrived after 4 (shutting your shop at 4 or 5pm is a thing in Norway!). We walked to a local waterfall, had a yummy dinner and head back to the ferry....after spending something like $60 on chocolate. We shopped while hungry (semi-mistake, but worth it!). Flavors were: Blue Cheese chocolate, brown cheese, beer, whisky, etc. I mean, how could you pass it up?!
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| Geiranger fjord |
Side note about a town nearby. In January 1905, a huge chunk of the mountain broke off dropping 870,000 tons of scree (rock, gravel and dirt) into the fjord. It caused a tsunami with a 40 meter wave (120 feet). It swept away ALL the houses in that town. A tourist boat was washed 350m inland (about 1,150 feed). A bunch of people, cows, horses and pigs were killed. The mountain is still unstable to this day and they predict another incident like this happening in Geirginger the future, completely wiping out the town.
Back to Juvet to pack our bags and sleep.
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| Traffic on our way back up the switchback road |
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| Trolls are be here! I think I mentioned that, right? |
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| I am the goat whisperer! |
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