On Thursday 4th of June we first visited the town Molde. Stopped by for a coffee and cake at Romsdal Museum.
Then we decided for the Trollkirka hike. The round trip of about 5 km takes you to the stunning limestone cave system featuring a waterfall and an underground river. It consists of 4 caves, with the last one supposed to be accessed from the top of the hill, which we could not find. Back then to the parking place there was the helicopter bringing the young guy, quite disoriented.
Our way then took us this time to the west coast and yet another remarkable scenic road – Atlantic Highway, 8.3 km long coast road, which leads across the archipelago of small islands and islets with eight dramatic bridges. Especially Storseisundet Bridge is known from James Bond movie “No Time to Die”.
For a short break we chose Haholmen parking by the Geitøya island, where Miska cooked some delicious food for us. Then taking the Atlantic highway left to right several times we finally left it for the town Kristiansund.
Starting our road trip in Kristiansand, we decided Kristiansund will be the northernmost (furthest) place we reach, before returning towards south.
In the late evening we parked the camper by the Gjevillvatnet lake, in the area called Osen, just nearby Osen bathaven, outside of Oppdal.
On Friday 5th of June I remember we were somehow not satisfied with the hospitality of the Oppdal town. We did go for shopping, but could not get to the tourist office.
Later we left this town, which has its own Oppdal Skicenter and on the way south we stopped by Magalaupet. A natural washing machine 😃 officially a 100 meter long wild zig-zag on the Driva river, at one point narrow only 1 meter.
Later on the way towards Dombås, we suddenly stopped again… as also several other cars were aside of the road. All the people from these cars were watching a couple of musk ox, very rare arctic mammal, which has a population only 200 to 300 animals in Norway – being the only place where it lives in Europe.
As we moved on down the road E6 we soon arrived to Dovrefjell mountains, near Hjerkinn, where we did a short hike to the Snøhetta viewpoint. Its modern and unique architecture, including a fireplace hanging from top, is an observation pavilion situated on the edge of the Dovrefjell–Sunndalsfjella National Park. And yes, we saw another couple of musk ox from there.
Later we also stopped, just for a short break on the Sohlbergplassen viewing point, which is a concrete platform surrounded by high pine trees, above Atnsjøen lake.
In the evening we were searching for a spot to oversleep.
Well, yeah! what a place we found!! Perhaps the most beautiful one, nested in the nature, under the trees overlooking wetland clearing of mountains of Jotunheimen National Park. This place we found as we passed Randsverk village and turned left to Riddersprangvegen from Fv51 road. It is close to the Sjoa river and its Knight’s Leap (Ridderspranget).
Even though that day was bit wet, I still managed to light a small fire in front of our spot and the magic was complete 🔥