In the summer of 1998, we (Henry Jonker and Marcel Jonker) have been on holiday to Norway (and a part of Sweden and Denmark). From sunday 19 juli through sunday 9 august (22 days) we followed the route given in the maps above (about 5000 km). This page contains a photo and travel report of this varied holiday.

On 19 juli 1998 we (Henry on the left and Marcel on the right) leave with the car full and the bikes on the back in the direction of Denmark. We leave early to avoid traffic jam on the German roads. Denmark is like the Netherlands, only with little more hills. By Kolding, Odense and the Big Belt bridge we drive to Copenhagen.

At Ishoj, about 20 km before Copenhagen, we find a camping. The next day, we make a trip by Bike to Copenhagen.

In Copenhagen, we see a lot of parks, beautifull buildings, sculptures and of course the Little Mermaid. The Kastellet fortress looks like Boertange in the Netherlands. We cycle on the fortress wall, where we see cannons and a windmill.

Tuesday, we go to Sweden with the ferryboat from Helsingor to Helsingborg. The landscape in Sweden starts flat, but it becomes more hilly soon. Especially when we leave the highway after Göteborg towards the Vändern lake. At the east side there are multiple mountain lakes.

Somewhere in the forrest area northeast of the Vänern, we find a nice camping place. Wednesday we drive to Norway through the forrest and we see a lot of little lakes. In Oslo we (fortunately) drive exactly right in the direction of the camping at Bogstad.

Thursday, we make a trip through Oslo. At the musea island Bigdoy, we visit the viking ship museum. We cycle through the centre along several special buildings and parks. At the bay we visit the Akerhus castle. On the way back to the camping we visit the Ulleval Stadium and see that it is getting renovated.

It is as good as impossible to leave Oslo in the Northern direction from Bogstad. After a view tries, we come back to Bogstad and we decide to take the toll road through Oslo. At Hamar, we see the Viking Skipet. We explore the sideroads between Hamar and Lillehammer where we put our tent up at an elevation next to a sand road through a forrest area.

Saturday 25 juli we visit the Olympic part at Lillehammer, where we see the skipistes and the icehockey track. Here we have a nice view over the Mjosa river.

At Ringebu we take the Friisveien road to Atna. We drive through a beatifull bold landscape with only small vegetation, grass and a lot of moss.

We find a perfect camping place near a river. We decide to stay there also on Sunday and relax over there. Monday we go on to the North by Roros.

At Unsholted we take a sand road along the Kjölifell. There we see the first snow.

long the road we find again a nice campingplace next to a little lake.

Via Stjördal we go to Trondheim. By bike we make a trip through the city. We see the old colourfull houses and there is a marketplace.

From the mountains at the west of Trondheim we have a nice view over the city. We leave Trondheim and southwest we find a campingplace again. Via Hemne and Aure we drive to Halsa. We see many beautifull fjords, but they are not as big and high as we expected.

We find a nice campingplace near a meadow. When we climb the southern mountain in the evening, we have an excellent view over the area of the Korsnesfjord.

Thursday 30 juli we drive along the Trollheimen near Skei, and see the Fjords at Tingvoll, Gjemmnes en Molde. By means of ferryboats and bridges we cross several fjords.

We find at the Eresfjord a nice place to put up our tent. In the evening we see a beautifull sundown over the fjord. The next day it is raining very strongly so we decide to stay one extra day.

In spite of the rain, we decide to leave at saturday. That turns out to be a good decidion, because during the travel, the weather is getting better. The road along the Trollstigveien is really beautifull. The hairpin bending road comes along several waterfalls.

On top of the mountain, there is a big field full of stacked stones. You find these ridicule tourist-made stacks of stones really everywhere in Norway. At Stranda, we take a ferryboat and at Hellesylt we take the road to the mountains. Before that, we see astonishing beautifull fjords: the Sunnylvsfjord and Geirangerfjord.

We find a nice campingplace in the mountain area. Because of the low standing eveningsun, it looks like the steaming mountains are on fire.

Sunday we go to the Jostedalsbreen. This glacier, with a length of 80 km, is the biggest on the European continent (1150 km2). The highest point is at Lodalskapa at 2083 m. At Olden we visit the Briksdalsbreen glacier. We walk till we reach the ice of the glacier.

After some rainy days, the weather is now good. The sunshine gives some special effects on the melting ice of the glacier. In the evening we find at the Utfjord a nice campingplace again. Monday 3 august we visit the Kjenndalsbreen. This glacier is less touristic than the Briksdalsbreen, but surely as beautifull and worth visiting.

Via Geiranger, where we see the magnificent fjords, we drive to Eidsdal. At the fjord we find a campingplace. Some days earlier we have been driving at the other side of this fjord. Tuesday we drive back to Geiranger. The mountains are about 1400 meters high, with peaks till 1615 meter. There are two big cruise ships in the fjord.

The road towards the outlook point at Dalsnibba (1476 meter) is very beautifull. In the mist, we drive along several snow fields. On the top at Dalsnibba we have a great view over the Geirangerfjord and the surrounding.

In the valley next to Dalsnibba, the Djupvatnet lake (1017 m) is located. The road comes out of the snowed mountain in the background. We go further in the direction of Lomm and in Ottadalen we see a nice wild river. In Leirdalen, in the north of Jotunheimen, we find a nice campingplace.

The next day we visit Jotunheimen at Leirvasbu.Ther we see a bold rocky landscape with a lot of snow fields. The mountains are around 2 km high. We take the toll road to Ardal. At the Ardalsfjord we go through a dark and steeb tunnel where we find a magnificent campingplace with a view over the fjord.

Thursday is a rainy day. We go along the Horndalen and drive at Hornsippa through an endless long rocky area.

We go through a lot of tunnels. Via the Aurlandsfjord and Aurlandsdalen we drive to Hol, where we find a campingplace at the Holsfjord just when it stops raining.

We drive around the Hardangervidda along the Folgefonno. The Hardangervidda is the biggest national park in Norway and has an arctic flora and fauna. It is a very divers landscape. We see bold area's, fjords, waterfalls, glaciers, forrest, and much more.

After this varied trip (350 km) we find a nice campingplace along the Otra river. Saturday 8 august, we go to the ferry at Kristiansand. We can take the ferryboat at 22.00 to Hirtshals. We sleep along the highway at a parkingplace inside the car and at Sunday we drive home.