Flåm
A village at the head of the Aurlandsfjord, reached by one of the world's most beautiful railways, walled in by green vertical rock.
Flåm exists because the Flåmsbana exists — twenty kilometers of railway built in the 1920s to connect the high Bergen Line to the Sognefjord. The drop is staggering: more than 800 meters in elevation across the small valley. The village itself is a single street with a brewery, a couple of inns, and the kind of silence that only comes from being surrounded by a vertical kilometer of rock on every side.
What we plan to do here
- The Flåmsbana down, on purpose, slowly.
- Aurlandsfjord by ferry to Gudvangen — narrow, deep, and cold.
- Walk the old road in the upper valley.
- One night, then north.
What we hope to learn
What it actually feels like to stand at the bottom of a fjord. Words won’t quite do it.
Journals from Flåm
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