Fall Break – Sørsidevegen & Solvorn

Last autumn, we stayed for a week along the Lustrafjorden in western Norway. On one of the days, we decided to do a donut around our arm of the fjord to explore the villages of Skjolden, Ornes and Solvorn.

Sørsidevegen is a tiny road that winds along the fjord from Skjolden, a town at the very end of Lustrafjorden, past Feigefossen (the waterfall we could see from our rental across the fjord) and ends at the village of Ornes. We wanted to check out the Urnes Stave Church but there was a construction crew outside so we just took a quick peek before we boarded an old ferry that chugged us across Lustrafjorden to the very cute village of Solvorn.

Here are some images captured along Sørsidevegen as well as in the village of Solvorn last fall.

White houses in Skjolden across the turquoise waters of a river that is about to enter the Lustrafjorden
Looking from Skjolden over Lustrafjorden
The tiny Sørsidevegen
Farms with a partial view of Feigefossen (our view from our rental was better, actually)
Some shaggy friends on the hillside
Signs of fall (which came late again this past year)
A small set of twin falls along the roadway
Urnes Stavkyrkje apparently having gotten some beauty work done
Looking through a porthole in the ferry at the village of Solvorn (most car ferries in Norway are now electric so this old chugger was a bit of a throwback)
A large tree next to the oldest family-run hotel in Norway
Some of the trees in Solvorn were just starting to turn as colorful as the rorbu
Rocks and red rorbu
Looking the other way from the beach
Close on the colorful rorbu
Just a couple of buoys having a break
Someone’s tiny cottage
Another look at rocks and rorbu
The diving platform
Can’t get enough of rocks and rorbu
See how the turquoise water looks in the shallow, sandy areas near the beach

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