Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
For Nkr500 extra, you can sleep the night in the tower's one suite, complete with wrap-
around views of fjord and glacier - as did US ex-vice president Walter Mondale, whose
family came from Mundal, and the present Queen of Norway (not, as the charming recep-
tionist explains, on the same occasion). The restaurant serves carefully prepared traditional
four-course Norwegian dinners (Nkr360). Non-guests need to book by 6pm. On one wall
of its Mikkel Kaffe, a mountaineering theme, there's a giant evocative 1898 map of Sogne-
fjorden.
Brævasshytta Cafeteria
CAFE
( 8am-8pm May-Sep)
Do visit the Brævasshytta, built into the moraine of Bøyabreen glacier's latest major ad-
vance, even if it's only for a cup of coffee. With the glacier right there and in your face, it's
like you're in an Imax cinema, only it's real.
Information
Tourist Office
TOURIST OFFICE
( 57 69 32 33;
www.fjaerland.org
; 10am-6pm Jun-Aug, to 4pm Sep-May)
Fjærland's exceptionally friendly tourist office is within the Bok & Bilde bookshop on the
main street, 300m from the ferry point. It displays a full list of accommodation options, to-
gether with prices, on the main door and rents bikes (half/full day Nkr40/160). Also ask
about ferry and bus trips to Balestrand that take in the glacier and musuem.
Getting There & Away
A car ferry (Nkr275/360 one way/return, 1¼ hours) runs twice daily between Balestrand
and Fjærland in July and August (in May, June and September there's a daily passenger
ferry).
Buses bypass the village and stop on the Rv5 near the glacier museum. Three to six run
daily to/from Sogndal (Nkr73, 30 minutes) and Stryn (Nkr200, two hours).
