Prepare for a biking expertise like no different! Prepare for a tour of Norway by bicycle!
Bicycle Touring Professional invitations you on a memorable 10-day bike tour throughout fjord Norway with Uncover-Norway.com. Throughout this unimaginable Scandinavian biking vacation you’ll cycle throughout scenic vistas, cruise previous lots of of gushing waterfalls, zip downhill to the sting of Norway’s most well-known fjords, after which spend the night time enjoyable in a high quality resort, being served scrumptious meals and drinks, and soaking in a magical summer season sundown.
My good friend Eric joined me in Norway just lately on two back-to-back self-guided bike excursions with an organization known as Lively-Norway.com. Video episodes #1 – 8 beneath are from our first bike tour with the corporate – the Biking Hardangerfjord Bike Tour, whereas episodes #9 – 13 are from the Round Sunnhordland by Boat & Bike tour. Watch the movies beneath and picture your self taking part in an analogous tour of Norway!
When you don’t have the time to look at all 13 movies, I like to recommend you watch video #4. It’s actually the primary official day of biking on the bike tour… and it’s the day when Eric runs into his first massive hill. Watch and see what occurs!
#1 – Biking To Disneyland in Oslo, Norway
Earlier than my bike tour Lively-Norway.com may even start, I wanted to succeed in the town of Oslo, Norway – the place I deliberate to fulfill my good friend Eric who was flying in from Los Angeles, California. After biking to Oslo from Copenhagen, Denmark, I met up with Eric and we jumped on an in a single day prepare and headed west towards the town of Bergen, Norway, which is the place our bike tour was scheduled to start.
#2 – Video Tour of Bergen, Norway
After we arrived in Bergen on the in a single day prepare, we walked across the metropolis for some time earlier than checking into our resort within the metropolis middle after which taking part in a strolling tour of the Bergen metropolis middle, the place we discovered concerning the metropolis’s well-known 4 “Fs” – fishing, fires, fjord and the funicular railway.
#3 – Touring by Practice to Voss, Norway
After choosing up a rental bike for Eric to make use of over the length of our bike tour, we jumped on one other prepare and headed east for 2 brief hours to the close by vacationer city of Voss. As soon as there, we walked across the metropolis, checked into our resort, and ate a scrumptious meal in our resort restaurant.
#4 – “The Massive Hill” & Eric’s First Day of Bike Touring
Earlier than the beginning of the Biking Hardangerfjord self-guided bike tour, Eric had infrequently ridden a bicycle, so he was wobbly and timid when he first received on the bike. Any little hill he’d come throughout was a serious problem. After biking greater than 30 kilometers already, we encountered a 6 km uphill climb and Eric was in for his first main problem of the tour.
#5 – Lively Norway Biking Hardangerfjord Bike Tour
On the second day of the Biking Hardangerfjord self guided bike tour, Eric and I left the Strand Lodge and cycled south alongside the sting of the Hardangerfjord earlier than crossing over the water on the Hardangerfjord bridge after which crossing the fjord but once more on certainly one of Norway’s many ferry boats.
#6 – Glacier Hike
As soon as we reached our resort within the metropolis of Norheimsund, Eric and I had signed up for a guided glacier hike on the close by Folgefonna glacier. We needed to take a ferry boat and a bus to get there, however the views from the highest of the glacier have been actually well worth the journey.
#7 – Biking the Hardangerfjord in Norway
The day after our lengthy glacier hike in Norheimsund, Eric and I jumped again on our bicycled and pedaled south on what could be the longest day of our bike tour in Norway – about 70+ kilometers. After passing by a sequence of brief tunnels and taking one other ferryboat throughout the waters of the Hardangerfjord, we reached our charming lodging for the night time – the Rosendal Vacationer Hotell.
#8 – Epic Fjord Hike in Rosendal, Norway
Rosendall, Norway is a very particular place. We had scheduled one other day of relaxation in Rosendall, fortunately, so Eric stayed in mattress to atone for sleep, whereas I hiked to the highest of a close-by mountain. It took me about 2.5 hours to succeed in the highest, however the views from the summer season have been actually well worth the effort.
#9 – Sunnhordland Norway by Bike & Boat
After our relaxation day in Rosendall and our second night time of sleep and high quality eating and the Rosendal Vacationer Lodge, Eric and I started the primary day of the Round Sunnhordland by Boat & Bike tour. Our first tour with Lively-Norway.com (the Biking Hardangerfjord Bike Tour) was now formally over and we have been solely simply beginning on the primary day of our second tour with the corporate – the Round Sunnhordland by Boat & Bike tour.
#10 – Island Hopping Tour of Norway
The second day of the Round Sunnhordland by Boat & Bike tour was distinctive, as a result of it was an out-and-back day, the place we cycled to a close-by metropolis, then rotated and got here again the identical approach we had simply dwelling – which doesn’t sound all that unusual, but it surely’s actually not that widespread to go out-and-back within the bicycle touring world.
#11 – Biking Throughout 9 Islands in 1 Day
Lastly, on the final official day of our bike tour in Norway, Eric and I left the Bekkjarvik Gjestgiveri (our lovely waterfront resort within the tiny harbor city of Bekkjarvik, Norway) and cycled north for about 20 km to the ferry touchdown on the far facet of the island. Whereas the others waited for the ferry, I took off by myself on a street extending out to the west – permitting me to cycle throughout 9 small Norwegian islands in a single day. Then, I made it again to the ferry simply in time for our journey again to Bergen and the official finish of our two bike excursions with Lively-Norway.com.
#12 – Two Bike Excursions Collide in Oslo, Norway
With our travels by bike in Norway now over, Eric and I took the prepare again to Oslo, Norway the place we rented an condominium within the metropolis middle and met up with my good friend Roberto LoRusso, who had flown in from Italy to hitch me for the subsequent leg of my travels in Norway. My bike tour with Eric and Lively-Norway.com was now over, however my cross-country bike tour with Rob and central Norway was nearly to start!
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