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berry and apple farm (they make and sell tasty juices from both). The hostel
rents bikes and helmets to non-guests for 150 kr/day. If you plan to bike along
the fjord from Urnes, consider that if you stay at the hostel, the free bikes will
save you 300 kr (for two people).
Eating in Solvorn: Sleepy Solvorn is blessed with the cheery Linahagen
Kafé, nextdoortoWalakerHotel,wheredelightful Signeandherfamilyserve
up good meals (120-kr dinner salads, 140-kr dinner plates, June-Aug daily
12:30-19:30, closed Sept-May, tel. [phone]).
In Sogndal
Sogndal is the only sizeable town in this region. While it lacks the charm of
Solvorn and Balestrand, it's big enough to have a busy shopping street and a
helpful TI (mid-June-mid-Aug Mon-Fri 9:00-18:00, Sat 10:00-16:00, closed
Sun; shorter hours in May and Sept, closed in winter; in the Kulturhus at
Hovevegen 2, mobile [phone]).
$$ Loftesnes Pensjonat, with 13 rooms, houses travelers mid-June
through mid-August, and mostly students—reserving four rooms for travel-
ers—during the school year (S-400 kr, Sb-420 kr, D-600 kr, Db-650 kr, no
breakfast, kitchen, above a Chinese restaurant near the water, tel. & fax 57 67
15 77, mobile [phone], [e-mail] ) .
$-$$ Sogndal Youth Hostel rents good, cheap beds (bunk in 4-bed
room-225 kr, S-310 kr, D-520 kr, Db-725 kr, 10 percent less for members,
includes breakfast, sheets-70 kr, towel-40 kr, fully equipped members' kit-
chen, mid-June-mid-Aug only, closed 10:00-17:00, at fork in the road as
you enter town, tel. [phone], mobile [phone], fax [phone],
www.vandrerhjem.no , [e-mail] ) .
Lustrafjord Connections
Sogndal is the transit hub for the Lustrafjord region.
From Sogndal by Bus
Buses go to Lom over the Sognefjell pass (2/day late June-Aug only, road
closed off-season, 3.25 hours), Solvorn (4/day in summer, 2/day in winter,