The spiral tunnel
Turning back on itself inside the mountain.
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Preikestolen for most people: four hours there and back on a clear path, a longer season, and manageable for anyone of average fitness. Kjeragbolten for those genuinely prepared: six to ten hours with three steep ascents and descents using fixed chains, a season of two or three months, and standing on the boulder itself over a thousand-metre drop with no barrier and no protection. Do not choose Kjerag because the photograph is more dramatic — choose it if you actually walk mountains.
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Lysebotn is a small village at the inner end of the Lysefjord, with a few dozen inhabitants — but the road that reaches it is why it is known. The Lysebotn road drops from the plateau to sea level through twenty-seven successive hairpin bends cut into the mountain wall, then passes through a spiral tunnel inside the rock that turns back on itself before emerging at the village. It was built in the 1930s to serve a hydroelectric station, and is among the most photographed roads in Norway. The village itself is a starting point: from here begins the climb to Kjerag and Kjeragbolten — the boulder wedged over a thousand-metre drop — a hard mountain walk of six to ten hours there and back, far more demanding than Preikestolen. And the fjord ferries leave from its quay. The road is **closed by snow for most of the year** — it opens roughly June to September.
Turning back on itself inside the mountain.
The hardest of the region's famous walks.
Lysebotn, at the head of the Lysefjord