Norwegian Fjords Charter Itinerary

Norwegian Fjords Itinerary

Norwegian Fjords Yacht Charter
The fjords were cut by ice, and the ice has not entirely finished ’ the Jostedalsbreen ice cap still feeds glaciers that come down almost to the fjord head, and you can walk to the snout of one in an afternoon.





This route is the inland one: deep into the Sognefjord and the Geirangerfjord, north to Trondheim for the cathedral, and back down through glacier country. It trades the outer coast for sheer walls, waterfalls and villages with a hundred people and a jetty.





Every route we shape is a starting point, not a fixed schedule. Stay a second day where the light is right, move with the weather, or follow a captain who knows the cove worth the detour. That freedom is the point of chartering. What follows is one considered way to read the Norwegian fjords; the rest we tailor to you.
Day 1

Bergen

Begin at Bryggen, the Hanseatic wharf, whose crooked wooden facades have been rebuilt after every fire since the fourteenth century. Fish market for lunch, the funicular up Fløyen afterwards, and a seafood dinner over the harbour. Then north, into a coastline that will not straighten out again all week.
Day 2

Ålesund

An overnight passage up the coast brings you to Ålesund, rebuilt in Art Nouveau after the 1904 fire and unlike anywhere else in Norway for it. Hike to Aksla for the panorama over the islands. Eat klippfisk ’ salted, dried cod, the trade that built this coast and is still shipped to Portugal by the tonne.
Day 3

Geirangerfjord

Into the Geirangerfjord, a UNESCO site and the crown of the whole system: fifteen kilometres of dark water beneath cliffs, the Seven Sisters falling opposite the Suitor, and derelict farmsteads perched where no sane person would build. Hike to Flydalsjuvet for the view, or kayak beneath the falls and get soaked.
Day 4

Trondheim

North again to Trondheim, Norway’s medieval capital, built on a bend in the river. Nidaros Cathedral stands over the grave of St Olav and was the northernmost pilgrimage site in Christendom. Cross the old bridge to Bakklandet ’ wooden houses, coffee, bicycles ’ and the city stops feeling Arctic entirely.
Day 5

Olden & Sognefjord

South to Olden, at the head of a green valley beneath the Jostedalsbreen ice cap. Walk up to the Briksdal glacier, which has retreated a long way in thirty years and is still an unnerving mass of blue ice above a meltwater lake. Then into the Sognefjord, deepest and longest in the country, two hundred kilometres inland.
Day 6

Flåm & Gudvangen

Flåm sits where the Aurlandsfjord ends and the mountains take over. Ride the railway up the valley through twenty tunnels. In the afternoon, cruise the Nærøyfjord to Gudvangen ’ at its narrowest, the walls are seventeen hundred metres high and a quarter mile apart. A Viking settlement has been rebuilt at the head of it.
Day 7

Return to Bergen

A last day working back down the fjords, waterfalls on both sides and the water black and depthless beneath. Bergen by lunch. Buy a sweater you will wear once a year, walk Bryggen one more time, and leave a coast that has spent a week refusing to look like anywhere else.

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