With the current corona situation going on, we decided to travel at home this year, and fortunately, Norway is one helluva country to explore with its winding country roads among fjords, mountains, and waterfalls. We have previously traveled to Lofoten by plane, and we have jumped on a train to Flåm and Bergen. This summer, we decided to take the car and go from Oslo to Ålesund and the Atlantic Ocean Road on the west coast via the spectacular Geirangerfjord. When planning the trip, we put together a route with places we wanted to see using Google’s My Maps and it turned out to be a really good one. In this post, I will give you all the details from our trip and you can also see the map with our route at the bottom of this page.
Day 1 – Lillehammer, and Lom (347 km)
Storgata in Lillehammer.
Eastern Norway (Østlandet) is not as spectacular as western Norway (Vestlandet) which is a region along the Atlantic coast of southern Norway, boasting the spectacular fjord and mountain scenery that Norway is so famous for. With that said, it doesn’t mean that eastern Norway is not beautiful — you will pass several gorgeous valleys such as Gudbrandsdalen, home to the well-known winter Olympic city of Lillehammer.
After a two and a half-hour drive from Oslo, we stopped in Lillehammer for some lunch at the main street, Storgata, with small old wooden houses. Since we have visited Lillehammer before, we continued after the lunch to Lom two hours away to set up a tent at Lom camping situated by a beautiful river behind Lom Stavkirke, an impressive stave church which dates back to 1158-59.
