Not that far away from our hotel lies Hemsedal, Norway's second largest skiing area, where we have short stop...
... before continuing our way...
... to another stave church in Borgund, not far from the municipality of Lærdal at the southeastern end of the famous Sognefjord:
Between Lærdal and Aurland we take Europe's longest tunnel (24.5 km), the Lærdalstunnelen:
At the inner end of the Aurlandsfjord, an arm of the Sognefjord, ...
... lies Flåm (below picture), a popular tourist destination. The almost 450,000 visitors a year come to enjoy the spectacular 20 km Flåmsbana railway between Flåm and Myrdal, one of the steepest railway tracks in the world.
However, we only stop at Gudvangen, another popular tourist destination at the bottom of the Nærøyfjord, the western branch of the Aurlandsfjord (as you can see on the above map)...
... where we have lunch in a Viking style restaurant called Gudvangen Fjordtel.
Leaving Gudvangen we continue our tour through the valley of Stalheim, stop for some photographs at the waterfall "Tvindefossen"...
... pass Voss (a notable center of skiing, water sports, skydiving, paragliding and other adventure sports) to finally arrive in Bergen - just in time for having 2 hours of free time to spend under the rain of Norway's wettest city (therefore also its nickname The City of Rain):
Strolling through Bryggen, the Hanseatic quarter of Bergen, a series of Hanseatic commercial buildings lining the eastern side of the fjord coming into Bergen and since 1979 also on the list of UNESCO World Cultural Heritage sites:
Drenched with rain we drive for the overnight stay to a hotel close to the airport.
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