Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Setesdal and Telemark regions of Norway

July 21-25, 2019

We spent 5 days driving around the Setesdal and Telemark regions of southern Norway. The area has lakes and mountain views in every direction. We had a mix of rain, mountain hugging clouds, and clear blue skies. It didn't matter what the weather was, we enjoyed our time spent in the area.

Wateralls are a common sight.


Roads in Norway have lots of tunnels. In this area there were small one lane roads around the tunnels (mainly for bicycles who are not allowed through the tunnels). We tried to take as many of these alternate routes as we could. The views were great, much better then a tunnel.







Road side view.

Rygnestad Farm Museum - The house was from the 16th century.



Rest area near Valle.

Farm house - A sod roof is very popular in this area.

Mountain huts 

Our camping spot on Hwy 41 along Nisser Lake



Beautiful high mountain drive from Rysstad to Lysebotn.





From Lysebotn we took a 2 1/2 hour ferry ride down the fjord to Lauvvik.

View of Preikestolen, Pupit Rock, from the ferry. Look close and you can see people looking down. This is a very popular hike.

The narrow flat top rock in the top middle of the photo is Preikestolen.

Lysefjordbrue - another beautiful bridge over a fjord.

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