Flamsbana

By Prapti

#Flamsbana is a spectacular train journey that offers a panoramic view of some of the wildest and most magnificent nature in the Norwegian fjord landscape.

Flamsbana is one of the steepest trainlines in the world on normal tracks, where almost 80% of the journey has a gradient of 5.5%.

The train journey runs through fantastic nature, past the Rallar road, steep mountains, breathtaking waterfalls, through 20 tunnels and offers so many viewpoints that many feel like travelling multiple times between the mountain and the fjord. In the span of a single hour, the train takes you from the ocean level at the Sognefjord in Flam, to the mountaintop at Myrdal mountain station on Hardangervidda, 863 meters over the ocean.

Myrdal is also a station on the Bergen railway, which means that Flamsbana corresponds with the trains on the Oslo - Bergen line.

National Geographic Traveler Magazine has named the Flam Railway as one of the top 10 train journeys in Europe and Lonely Planet named it the best train journey in the world in 2014.

The Flam railway has been named one of the most beautiful train journeys in the world and is one of the leading tourist attractions in Norway.

Combine a historical room at the Fretheim Hotel with one of the most beautiful train journeys in the world. Summer evenings gives you the opportunity for a beautiful and relaxing journey on the Flam railway.

Join a fjord cruise from Flam through the UNESCO World Heritage landscape with a stop in Undredal, known for the amazing goat cheese and the little stave church.