The wild beauty of Norway through the train of Flamsbana
A holiday in Norway means exploration of dreamy places and enchanted landscapes that seem to come out of a storybook. Trip & Travel Blog
has previously described these beautiful lands advising you to take the
boat cruise in the fjords of Norway to see these amazing works of
nature.
Norway Rago National Park
Today, however, we want to talk about another interesting way to see Norway.
Through the spectacular railway Flamsbana. If you consider the coast
lovely, the interior of the country is just as nice. Especially the
Norwegian Alps where the green forest alternates with white snow and the
turquoise of the fjords. It’s no coincidence that every year this
stretch of railway attracts people from all around the world making the
Flåm Railway one of the most important tourist attractions and most
scenic in Norway.
Norwegian Alps
This is an incredible journey by train
from the station of Myrdal on the Bergen line, up to Flåm station, a
charming village situated on the sea on the Aurland fjord. Travelling
along the 20 kilometers of Flamsbana you can enjoy some of the wildest
and most inaccessible landscapes of Norway: rivers running through
gorges and ravines, waterfalls flowing down from snow-capped mountains,
alpine meadows and farms clinging on to greener pastures.
Flamsbana is the steepest trainrail in the world.
The Flåm Railway is one of the steepest
standard gauge lines in the world. Its slope, in fact, is 55/1000 on
almost the entire route, which reaches a maximum altitude of 863 meters.
The journey takes about an hour and a half mainly due to stops in small
towns typical of the Norwegian Alps. At the foot of the mountains you
can enjoy the natural beauty of the Flåm Valley and admire the majestic
Aurlandfjord and the world’s longest fjord, the Sognefjord.
Aurlandfjord Norway in mid May