August 14th - Aurland, Sogndal and Balestrand

The last morning of our stay in Aurland, we spent a little time looking around the house of the owner of the place we stayed. So I took some pictures for those of you who are antique lovers. The grandfather clock was owned by the owner's great-great-great-great-great-grandfather. The clock was built in 1780.

She didn't know for sure about the hanging corner cabinet but suspects it was right around the same time.

I took some more pictures of Aurland before we left but when the rain clouds settled in. Even though it looks dismal and dreary it was still a great little fjord town and very beautiful.

Sogndal was also rainy and cloudy but it was on a very pretty fjord arm. Here are some pictures I took on the way to Sogndal in the bus.

If you zoom in on this picture you'll see a couple sheep in the front lawn of this house. I'm standing on the street looking up through the apple pear and plum orchards that people seem to have any place they have extra space to grow something.

I found this rather amusing. Who was the first person that thought that body rafting would be a good idea going down through rocks and rushing water?

We are now on our way from the fjord town of Leikanger, where we caught the ferry, to the next fjord town of Balestrand where we will be spending the next couple nights.

We made it to Balestrand and these next few pictures are from our room.

This was our view from our table in the restaurant where we ate dinner last night. It doesn't look all that great and because of the darkness and the clouds, but it was really gorgeous.

Even though there were some clouds, we did not pass up the opportunity to take a hike. All the pictures below are from our hike.

Even the forest was pretty with what looked like lush green carpeting.

This is what happens when trees grow on top of solid granite. If a tree falls in the forest and nobody's there does it make a sound?

For all the hikers reading the blog you'll notice this trailblazer looks like a giant fishing bobber that is wired into a tree rather than painting the trees.