To make things clear from the start, this is not a product placement, only my personal (unpaid) experience that should help you on your way through Norway.

Going into Norway and skipping Fjord tour is like… well actually anything that is unthinkable ?

I always love to plan our vacation. Finding a local experience, looking up a meal related to the region or the right place for a good coffee is actually my personal brand of heroin. Btw. I found the best café in Bergen, check that out check that out.

In the end, looking up the best fjord experience that fits our timetable, presents the best of the best, gives a variety of routes and doesn’t cost a fortune was the biggest challenge.

After arriving to Bergen we went into visitor centre right next to the Fish market. I have never seen a visitor centre filled with people, waiting with numbers to be called. Yet, I have never ever went into visitors centre before ?

While waiting we went through all the brochures of all the companies that provide the cruises. To my surprise we found out that company Rodne that I already found out at home on the internet as the best reviewed possibility was the one that fitted us the best.

We’ve chosen 3 hour round trip to the inland’s spectacular town Mo. It may sound silly but one of those perks I was looking for was drinking a freshly captured water from a mountain waterfall that is served on some of the boats. This is not an always option. It depends on the actual state of the currents which can move a ship a lot and you don’t want to be in a stick-length distance from a rocky mountain in that moment.

After sailing from the port you finally get to appreciate Bergen as a whole. Colourful national heritage houses, steep hills and mountain tops, breathtaking nature and a sound of a ship that sails you off the coast.

While passing a private boats docked in the marina you discover that there is where the life is. A lot of them fastened one to another they create a multi-ship experience. Young people with a loud music on, just enjoying the day and partying in the daylight. Elderly cooking together some fish. Others playing a four table chess. What a view.

As the sounds of Bergen fades in the distance something loud attacks your senses. The deafening tranquility. The blinding nature. Firm touch of salty wind touching your skin. The taste of the salt on your lips…

A dead end appears in the distance, right in from of you. As the ship approaches it opens majestically up for us to go even further. This is the halfway. While no civilisation to be found we just stood there and enjoyed the moment of how it was before the Man.

And than my man next to me went really hungry. In the lower covered deck we took out a treat we bought in the morning that day. 4 sweet buns, so typical to the region. Yeah, it may not be the healthiest lunch and someone may argue that this is not a lunch. Call it whatever you want I call it YUMMY ?

Strengthened up just in time for this sight of our lives. Once again it seemed like there is a dead end. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. But we are no fools so as expected a beautiful strait around some local houses in the middle of nowhere showed up and we headed that way.

Once just had to wonder. Is this house just some kind of retreat from the civilisation? There was no road around to be found. No ship docked. Maybe they work in Bergen. At night and on the weekends they spend their family time here in their own little sanctuary…. 

On the way to your final destination you see lots and lots of waterfalls. Sometimes tiny sometimes huge. Wide or narrow. If you just stare for a minute you might be surprised how often water makes it’s way through the mountains.

But here, in the bay of Mo there are two giants. One reaches to the highest heights and gives formidable background to a collection of a few houses bellow. 

The other one is so close so you can almost touch it. From this one we get our long waited mountain water. An experience that everyone wanted to enjoy (we drank two buckets). 

And this is the end. Not of our journey. That one was reversely repeated on our way back. But here water meets land. In a bay of beautiful scenic town of Mo. I just wished we docked and were able to see it up front. On the other hand, to see and not to be able to touch makes it even more special. Less touristy and noisy. Just as was intended to be in the times when it was built.