Travel Bug entries...Journey destined to? (31 March-3 April 2007)

My travel trails took a turn towards the west coast and the northern Norway during the Easter vacations.

I headed off to experience the majestically towering mountains with scenic beauty of gushing streams of water running through the huge rocks. Taking the night bus from Trondheim to Stryn, the journey is worth mentioning for the following reason; I was captivated heart & soul by the majestically gigantic snow-covered mountains under the starry sky.

Though my stay destination was at Innvik (a small town with 600 inhabitants), I visited the "Utvik Fjell" (the mountains of Utvik, a part of Gloppen Kommune), for some skiing- being highly unsuccesful though.
Thousands of tourists flock to this place to experience cross-country and down hill skiing, enormously facilitated by the huge mass of snow.

Nature's Catastrophes- 1905 and 1936.

Driving through the hair-pin bends, my next visit was to Lodalen. Ironically, nature has intervened three times in the last century to reshape Lodalen's landscape, twice with the loss of Human life and enormous material damage in 1905, 1936 and 1950. The catastrophes were the landslides from the mountain, which are the biggest in the Norwegian history.