Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Sit back and relax at the jetty's edge and enjoy a drink and one pretty panorama in this
welcoming place. The menu takes in those old Norwegian favourites:
svele
(pancakes),
pizza and burgers.
Kjellar'n
PUB
( from 10pm Sat)
The Grand Hotel Bellevue's cellar bar, backlit in startlingly citified pink and lime green, is
where the town meets on Saturday nights to drink, chat and dance until late.
Information
Tourist Office
TOURIST OFFICE
( 71 22 16 22;
www.visitandalsnes.com
;
9am-8pm Jun-Aug, rest of year 9am-3pm Mon-Fri)
At Åndalsnes train station. They rent bikes (hour/day Nkr60/185).
Getting There & Away
BUS
Buses along the spectacular National Tourist Route to Geiranger (Nkr265, three hours), via
Trollstigen, the Linge-Eidsdal ferry and the steep Ørnevegen (Eagle's Way), run twice
daily between mid-June and mid-August.
There are also services to Molde (Nkr145, 1½ hours, up to eight daily) and Ålesund
(Nkr295, 2¼ hours, four times daily).
TRAIN
Trains to/from Dombås (Nkr230, 1½ hours) run twice daily in synchronisation with
Oslo-Trondheim trains. Trains connect in Åndalsnes twice daily with the express bus ser-
vice to Ålesund via Molde.
Valldal & Around
Valldal is a place that travellers tend to pass through, on the way to or from the famous
Trollstigen pass or after the blissful ferry journey from Geiranger. Perched in a nick of
