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Important!
About the roads to Geiranger in April/May, don't just trust your GPS!
This is the
information that you GPS doesn't know:
1. In April:
In April the road to
Geiranger from the east is still closed. It is also not possible to
take the ferry on the Geirangerfjord.
If you are coming from Oslo, the best way is
to take the EV 6 from Oslo to Lillehammer, Otta and Dombås.
Then turn left on the E136 passing Åndalsnes, Vestnes to Sjøholt. Here you
turn left (FV63) and go to Linge and take the car ferry to Eidsdal (time: 10 minuttes leaving quite
frequently until 11.00 in the evening). The trip from Oslo to Geiranger will
take about 10 hours by private car.
2. Between the 1st
and the 25th of May:
In spite of what your GPS tells you:
In the beginning of May the road
FV63 from
Geiranger to Langevatn/Grotli is closed. Normally it opens between the 20th
and 30th of May (some
years earlier, some years later, depending of how much snow there's left in the
mountains).
The fastest way from Oslo
to Geiranger is to take the E6 from Oslo to Otta, then turn left to Vågåmo,
Lom, Grotli and further to Stryn. You then turn right and go to Hellesylt and take the ferry to
Geiranger. (For timetable, please see below). The trip from Oslo to Geiranger will take about 8-9 hours.
Very important: the last ferry in the evening leaves Hellesylt at 18.30 in the
afternoon!
If you don't reach this ferry, you can still reach Geiranger, but you have to
make a 2 hours extra drive: Stranda - Linge - Eidsdal - Geiranger.
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