Day10 - from Alta to Bogen

Miji wakes up and wants to surprise Isabel with some nice coffee. He asks at the reception, but the camping where we sleep offers none; he knocks at several caravan’s doors until he finds a nice German guy sipping a hot coffee in front of his caravan and luckily, the guy even has a Nespresso machine! Coming back to the cabin, Isabel is awake, getting the bags ready for leaving and ohhhh!! What a delicious coffee for this tough wake up...  

Just before leaving the camping we briefly stop at the reception, and there, the receptionists stops by and brings us -feeling so bad that she couldn’t offer Miji any coffee earlier- two cups of hot coffee and some cookies! So nice! Perfect start into a sunny and hot day!

We then start our journey to Bogen. Nice scenery all around!

Miji discovers the troll’s buttocks-mountain and the troll's unnamed-finger… Loana Liplanet cannot find these references in any touristic guide… still Miji is enchanted giving names to every rock referring to a part of troll’s anatomy.

On the way, Isabel loses the lens hood of the camera… probably while standing on the bike during Miji’s accelerations….some say it’s still a mystery why it fell off, Miji just says it’s someone’s fault. Anyway, here we found a pic while it was falling off.

The mood is a bit tense until all of a sudden Isabel discovers dolphins in a fjord! We stop several times enjoying this unexpected event. The dolphins are too quick to be captured by camera, but all tension is forgotten and here you have some more pics of the fabulous landscape instead (without lens hood).

We constantly see animals in our path: obviously reindeers, and even eagles.

The fish farms are all around, and we also see reindeer "zum-Mitnehmen".

Landscape changes all the time and as the sun sets, it creates beautiful shades.

 

We arrive on normal time at the hotel, 23h. The hotel is almost empty, so that the nice overly tattooed owner offers us his best room: directly over the fjord, with view of the dolphins (at least we think they are dolphins). We follow the sun going lower, presenting us an ever-changing view so astonishing that we cannot stop taking pictures.

The owner, a former whale hunter, tells us very interesting stories about the time he used to hunt.  He also recommends to Isabel to go and see the whales; it would only be a 200km detour (one way) as the trips to see the whales leave from Andenes. Isabel is enchanted by this idea! Miji frowns, but he knows he needs to start the replanning of the route: the next day we have to leave the latest at 7h to participate in the whale safari at 10h! The night will be short; we are kept awake by the view until 3 o’clock a.m.