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Kongevgen: Tyinkrysset – Øye
Kongevegen over Filefjell, (King’s Road through the Filefjell Mountains) is an over 100 km long hiking and cycling trail connecting towns Lærdal and Vang. In the past, this route was part of the main road connecting East and West Norway, Bergen and Oslo. Today, the E16 route runs almost parallel, and Kongevegen over Filefjell is a tourist gem of the region. 110 km is divided into 11 sections, so there is no need to struggling with the entire distance at once. The section Tyinkrysset – Øye was supposed to be an easy and pleasant fulfilment to the hike I already made. And it really was. I was hoping for a…
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Øye – Tyinkrysset
Few years ago I spent one weekend walking on beautiful trails which were parts of Kongevegen over Filefjell historic route. I promised myself that one day I will come back in that area and take a closer look for other parts of this route. And that day already came. Kongevegen over Filefjell is an old road that has been built in XVIII century as a part of the road connecting Oslo and Bergen. Total length of that trail is over 100 km and it is divided in several sections, so there is no need to go all the way from Lærdal to Vang. You can choose suitable distance or place…
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Kongevegen: Galdane
When I finished with my Maristova – Kyrkjestølen – Maristova trip (plus one additional summit climbing) I have still a half day to organize. I decided to eat something first and good place for it is Borgund Stavkirke Museum, which includes café. It took several minutes to get there, but unfortunately museum’s door was closed. I found out that they are open up to end of September, so I came about two weeks too late. I looked at old wooden church instead. There was a young man from the museum who waited for some group of tourists, but he didn’t agree to let me in. In this case I ate…
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No name summit at Kyrkjestølen
During the hiking from Maristova to Kyrkjestølen, I haven’t got any chance to climb up to any summit. So, when I saw a path leads up to one of the mountain behind Church of St. Thomas, I couldn’t resist. There were also other peaks around that looks more interesting, but this one was the closest one. I keep in my mind, that I had to make another over 10 km walk to Maristova, so I didn’t want to waste so much time. The summit I headed to, was not so interesting only to me. When I back home and see the map, I realized that someone ignored it, naming the…
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Kongevegen: Maristova – Kyrkjestølen
Kongevegen fascinated me since I first heard about it. I started read about this trail after my June’s trip to Borgund. I put it as a one of the most desireable destination point on my hiking list.I had to wait for return to Borgund area since October. And I still had a doubt that maybe Queen’s Sonja Hiking Trail was better choice. Reading about Kongevegen I found out that whole route has over 100 kilometers and it takes about 5-6 days to run all of it. Good news are that you can take it in phases as the trail crosses in several places road E16. Most interesting for me were short…
