Fall Break – Sørsidevegen & Solvorn

Last autumn, we stayed for a week along the Lustrafjorden in western Norway. On one of the days, we decided to do a donut around our arm of the fjord to explore the villages of Skjolden, Ornes and Solvorn.

Sørsidevegen is a tiny road that winds along the fjord from Skjolden, a town at the very end of Lustrafjorden, past Feigefossen (the waterfall we could see from our rental across the fjord) and ends at the village of Ornes. We wanted to check out the Urnes Stave Church but there was a construction crew outside so we just took a quick peek before we boarded an old ferry that chugged us across Lustrafjorden to the very cute village of Solvorn.

Here are some images captured along Sørsidevegen as well as in the village of Solvorn last fall.

White houses in Skjolden across the turquoise waters of a river that is about to enter the Lustrafjorden Looking from Skjolden over Lustrafjorden The tiny Sørsidevegen Farms with a partial view of Feigefossen (our view from our rental was better, actually) Some shaggy friends on the hillside Signs of fall (which came late again this past year) A small set of twin falls along the roadway Urnes Stavkyrkje apparently having gotten some beauty work done Looking through a porthole in the ferry at the village of Solvorn (most car ferries in Norway are now electric so this old chugger was a bit of a throwback) A large tree next to the oldest family-run hotel in Norway Some of the trees in Solvorn were just starting to turn as colorful as the rorbu Rocks and red rorbu Looking the other way from the beach Close on the colorful rorbu Just a couple of buoys having a break Someone’s tiny cottage Another look at rocks and rorbu The diving platform Can’t get enough of rocks and rorbu See how the turquoise water looks in the shallow, sandy areas near the beach #Architecture #church #Churches #Fjord #Norway #Ornes #Photoblog #Photography #Sheep #Solvorn #Travel #Waterfalls