Passing under Preikestolen
The famous platform from below rather than on top.
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Two entirely different experiences rather than alternatives. The climb is a four-hour return mountain walk on uneven rock, giving the famous view from above and requiring fitness and proper shoes. The boat is three to four hours seated, giving you the scale of the walls from below, and it suits anyone who does not walk far and works in weather the climb does not. With two days do both; with one day and the fitness, climb.
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The Lysefjord is a sea inlet forty-two kilometres long running east of Stavanger between rock walls reaching a thousand metres above the water — the best known and most dramatic of southern Norway's fjords. The name means the light fjord, and is attributed to the reflection off the pale granite that forms its walls. It was cut by ice into a deep valley and then flooded by the sea as the ice retreated, so its floor drops to four hundred metres below the surface at the deepest point. Three features on it are known worldwide: Preikestolen, the flat rock platform six hundred metres up; Kjeragbolten, the boulder wedged between two walls over a thousand-metre drop; and the Hengjane waterfall. A boat trip from Stavanger is the only way to see the fjord from below, passing directly beneath Preikestolen and stopping at the waterfall.
The famous platform from below rather than on top.
A close stop whose spray reaches the deck.
Lysefjorden, Rogaland county