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| Description: Oslo
train station |
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| Description: boarding
the train at Oslo headed for Myrdal and Flåm |
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| Description: view
of countryside from the train north west of Oslo |
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| Description: Train
gains elevation and mountain lakes are more prevalent |
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| Description: Getting
up into snow country |
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| Description: more
beautiful scenery with snow and mountain lakes |
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| Description: Serious
snow in the glacier country |
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| Description: cold
high country lake |
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| Description: waiting
at Myrdal for the famous Flåm Line train |
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| Description: Another
view at the Myrdal station |
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| Description: High
country leaving the Myrdal station |
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| Description: Interior
of Flåm Line train |
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| Description: spectacular
waterfall on the Flåm Line |
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| Description: Waterfall
looking from across the aisle on the Flåm Line train |
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| Description: Lots
of water descending from all that snow in the high country |
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| Description: A
sense of the drama of the Flåm Line with a tunnel ahead |
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| Description: Meeting
the other Flåm train coming up the line |
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| Description: Mountain
farm |
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| Description: another
tunnel ahead |
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| Description: A
spectacular view of Flåm as we come closer to the terminus. |
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| Description: The
end of the line at Flåm. |
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| Description: From
glacier to sea level, we now await our express boat for Balestrand |
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| Description: Keith
downloads the digital photos while waiting for time to board our express
boat (in background) |
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