Scandinavia 2019 Travel Blog – June 20
seabertsonScandinavia 2019 Travel Blog – June 20
By Kim Andersen
Today was a logistics day getting from Bergen to Oslo: 6 hours and 45 minutes, one of the most spectacular train journeys on the planet. The train slowly crawls up through rocky terrain, thick forest thinning and eventually giving way to a moonscape of intermittent snow-piles and icy streams cascading down west. From the village Finse at 1222 “m.o.h.” – as the digital information screen in the train told us: “1222 meter over havet” = meters above sea level (4,009 ft), the highest point in the entire Norwegian rail system. From there streams cascade down the other direction, towards east.