Flåm —> Oslo

We said goodbye to Flåm today and made our way to the Norwegian capital, Oslo. The first leg of the train journey was the traditional scenic Flam railway line up the mountain to the town of Myrdal. It has a lot of hairpins and goes through the mountains a lot so it was an amazing to think about the construction of the roads and railway (the roads were built in the 1800s and the railway was built between 1923-1940). The railway is 20km long and it is one of the steepest standard gauge trains in the world (80%). There are 20 tunnels (and 18 of them were built by hand!) 20 is an important number for the railway because it also took about 20 years to build and cost around 20 million NOK (Norweigan currency).

The views were very beautiful and we even were able to stop and get off the train at a waterfall!

After the 45 minute trip, we changed trains onto the mainline to Oslo, arriving around 3pm in the main station. We walked to our Airbnb and had a chilled afternoon, doing some travel admin and shopping before cooking ourselves a stir fry for dinner. We then just watched some Netflix before going to sleep.Read more