Geirangerfjord Winter Cruise

Enjoy powerful and peaceful close contact with reindeer and rugged nature - whether you are here when the landscape is sparkling with autumn colors, when it is covered with snow and ice, or when it bursts with spring. A completely different calm rests over the landscape in autumn, winter and spring: the air is sharper, the light clearer and the shadows deeper.

Tour description

The trip starts from Ålesund with a modern fjord boat into the fjord towards the heart of the UNESCO area: Geiranger. While sitting comfortably in the fjord boat, you get to experience how the mood changes as the landscape changes: from the open horizons by the coast to the dramatic and more mysterious fjords inland. The last half hour of the trip goes through the vast Geirangerfjord, past abandoned fjord farms, high mountains and mighty waterfalls. Maybe you go up on deck to get a light and refreshing shower of mountain water on your face?

Included in the trip is the Fjord Ranger from the World Heritage Center Norwegian Fjord Center. The fjord ranger will tell and explain how glaciers, rivers and other forces have shaped the landscape, about the great diversity of plants and animals that live here, and about people who found themselves in completely incredible places.

In Geiranger you go by bus to the spectacular lookout point Flydalsjuvet, where you get the chance to take iconic pictures of the fjord and Geiranger. The tour also includes a visit to the Norwegian Fjord Center, which is an exciting visitor and information center for the West Norwegian fjord landscape and for the Geirangerfjord heritage area. Anyone who wants to, can walk the 'Waterfall walk' (327 steps) down the magnificent river at Norsk Fjordsenter and back to the boat.

After a day filled with winter impressions from Geiranger, it feels good to get on the boat again for a relaxing trip back to Ålesund.