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Amazing roadtrip on the Brokke - Suleskard road

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On the 31st of May we had an amazing drive from Flekkefjord to Kristiansand via the road from Suleskard to Brokke. This is a winter closed road, and it opens the last weekend of May. We drove here just a few days after the opening, and the amount of snow in the mountains were stunning! I can recommend this route through this amazing landscape in south of Norway. Driving from spring to winter in a couple of hours  Photo taken from the ascent of the road looking towards south-west My husband standing next to huge amounts of snow I can barely reach half of this edge We tried to drive up to the Roskrepp dam, but the road was so narrow here that we had to drive back in reverse.  The highest of the snow edge was probably this one which is about 9-10 meters tall.  Descent towards Brokke Just a couple of days later the road had to close again for a couple of days due to more snow, and they couldn´t keep i...

Amazing Norway - day 1

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The summer holiday is finally here, and we have planned a journey in Norway. We started out early sunday morning at 07.30. The weather was not looking good but we started out in Flekkefjord as planned. First stop was Dorgefossen on our way to Sirdal. This is an amazing waterfall with several potholes.  The water has really carved it´s way into the mountains. We went from Flekkefjord to Sirdal, and drove over Suleskar to Brokke in Setesdal. The weather was with heavy clouds and some rain.  Further on we decided to eat our home made sandwich-lunch at Haukeliseter with this beautiful view from our car.  After some rather long tunnels we arrived at Låtefossen on our descent towards Hardanger. This is a spectacular waterfall with lots of tourists. It is amazing to watch these huge amounts of water just falling down the mountain with an incredible force.  The car can almost get "washed" from driving across this bridge.  Hardan...