Such is Norway!

Someone from my tourist group asked me today, how many tours do you do to Norway? I said four! For a second I thought do I really have 4 tours covering only majority of Norway?

Then I thought about that day in the May of 2009, when I didn’t even know if I would be coming back here more than once or twice.

The Norway Fjords and Arctics, is something that came to my mind as I sat in my chair and toiled with the idea of doing  something more in Norway. I dint know how the itinerary would be, let alone the thought that an actual tour would be in picture in the same year of its initiation, and that too from my chair.

But here I am writing from the train which we got from small mountain town called Dombas, where we are connected with the train from Oslo to Trondheim. The last time the ticket collector was helping the people with the luggage was in Myanmar. He didn’t just help with the luggage but also played cards (gambling) in Myanmar. Norway is Norway and here it stays to the luggage. 

After two days of travel through the Norwegian West Central Fjords, I realized that how a camera is a useless device when it comes to the actual capture of natural beauty around you. I started my yesterday a little late coz I thought “I don’t want to go to the hotel for the evening so early”. I had no idea that the day would turn out be one where people even after being hungry and physically tired say, “ can we just be here for sometime more”.  It was still 30 mins and 11 hair pin bends away from our Hotel Aak, which has rooms named after the mountain peaks of the region.

Trolls Path with its hair pin bends.

Aak in Andalsnes, is known to be the first tourist hotel in Norway. So, we stayed in the first hotel that was ever built in Norway. Do I have to even mention that it had character.

The first two days of this travel took us through Alesund, Loen on the Nordfjord and finally the Geiranger Fjord which even though has 2 – 4 cruise ships coming in daily sometimes cant be taken off the number one ranking fjord in Norway. Brings me to a re thought on touristy places and how maybe I do finally have to go to Dubrownik some day. ;-). Dubrownik, the most touristy and beautiful Adriatic sea place in Croatia which I have detested going to for its sheer commercial nature and crowds pouring in.

                                                                Geiranger Fjord 

We have 5 more days on the tour. I was completely new to the Fjords in this area but for the next 5, I will be in my known world of Lofoten Islands and Tromso. I was a little worried about how the first 2 -3 days of the tour would go, whether it would be as beautiful as above the Arctic circle.

Now I am worried about what if they don’t find the north so much interesting. J

Such is Norway !