Hardangervidda is a large area of land most of which is now a national park. It is inland from the Hardangerfjord that was once the only access to this part of the area. There are roads but they spend a good part of the year covered in snow and ice.
This picture above is a typical mountain home that many Norwegians keep up in the mountains as a place of their own for vacations, to enjoy the outdoors. They are not normally lived in all year round. This area is covered in Snow in the Winter and is an area with many ski slopes. The first snows normally arrive at the end of October.
This is the Fossli Hotel, built out of timber (most of the houses are) in the late 1800’s. It was built here because of its fantastic views of the Voringfossen waterfall. The area is also good skiing country in the Winter.
This is the Voringfossen waterfall. The photos do not give justice to the beauty of the scenery. Nor does it demonstrate how deep that valley is, the drop is 182 metres or 597 feet.
This is the Sysen Dam, you may be able to make out a couple of people walking across the top.
We were very lucky with the weather. Autumn doesn’t last long in Norway and they told me that Winter usually arrived at the end of October. There is snow on the tops of the mountains, but that normally is there all year round. We had two sunny days and one rainy day in Norway with temperatures about 15 degrees centigrade (about 60 Fahrenheit) which was milder than I was expecting. I packed for the Arctic, but it wasn’t that bad at all. The air was so clean and fresh and the scenery was Amazing.
I will definitely be going back to Norway at some point, It was so lovely, but I will have to start saving up, it is not a cheap place to visit.
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Tales from the mind of Kristian 
I remember feeling that the air was fresher and cleaner when I was in the North of Sweden. There are so many similarities I noticed as I was reading your post and looking at your pictures. Clean, fresh, beautiful, but yes, expensive!
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I bought some goats cheese and some crackers in the supermarket in Eidfjord and they came to 77 Krona, or £7.70! It was lovely there though.
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Beautiful, love the way the housing is built, just like a fairytale
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All of Scandinavia is beautiful but eye-wateringly expensive. A cruise is probably the best way to go as eating out and drinks there are prohibitively expensive
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The cruise was a bit disappointing, for the price you pay it didn’t seem as classy as I was hoping. It seemed like they were cutting down on quality to make profits. For example the orange juice at breakfast was yellow and obviously watered down. I will definitely go to Norway again though. I still haven’t been to Oslo. I’d like to see Iceland too.
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I absolutely want to go to Iceland, it fascinates me. I want to see all the natural wonders but I’m fascinated and intrigued by the tales of the hidden people.
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That does sound intriguing
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Beautiful views, and the weather looks and sounds perfect! It was 32 F (0 Celsius) this morning in Southern Ontario, literally freezing (hee hee) to me, but as my husband would say “Zero degrees, neither cold nor hot”
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Brrr, I prefer to be cold than hot, but that sounds cold to me. We normally only get a few days a year that get down to zero in my part of the UK, and that’s not usually until mid january. 🙂
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So striking in its geographical formations, a beauty of its own.
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I had high expectations of the scenery and it exceeded them every time. The photos just don’t do it justice. 🙂
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