Balestrand to Innvik
A slow start to the day as the cruise we had booked didn’t leave until 12 and the town of Balestrand very small. There were only about 12 of us on the trip and it was two days before they stopped cruises for the end of the season.
It took us about an hour and a half to travel the length of the fjord, where we saw the usual sights of small villages, canyon walls covered with trees and waterfalls.
We reached the small town of Fjærland to find a bus waiting for us to take us to the glacier museum. We were left there for an hour (when half that would have been sufficient) and then taken to a viewing area for the Jostedal glacier.
The glacier wasn't close enough that we could reach the ice, so it wasn't as spectacular as the ones we'd seen in Iceland, though we learnt at the museum that it's part of the largest ice cap on mainland Europe.
We made it back to Balestrand around 4.30pm and drove three hours north to our evening destination of Innvik, only to find we ended up driving right past the glacier museum and the glacier viewing area we had visited earlier - we could have saved a lot of time if we'd planned it better!
In the little town of Innvik we once again had a room right on the fjord with a glorious view of the water from our bed.
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