View from the train.

Another, completely different, view from the same train.

We spent the day on Hardangerfjord. The weather was absolutely perfect for a boat trip: unending sun and a bit ton of wind.

Hardanger is known as the “Garden Fjord” because of the numerous fruit orchards that line its lovely banks. Nice work glaciers. You’ve done well for yourself!

We spent our lunch break in the town of Eidfjord. Supposedly there is a Viking burial ground, the largest Iron Ace burial ground in West Norway with almost 400 graves, in the hills surrounding this town. After several hours of hiking, we were never quite sure if we had found the site. There were several signs, but I guess we needed a Las Vegas-style indicator to make it clear! Perhaps the burial ground was under these rocks.

Or somewhere in this field.

Or maybe, after several thousand years, it had been washed away by the Fjord tributary.

Regardless, it was a great hike – buried Vikings or not!