The stepped bridge
Crossing the chasm for the view from both sides.
Kenny Louie — CC BY 2.0 · W. Bulach — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Holger Uwe Schmitt — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Holger Uwe Schmitt — CC BY-SA 4.0
No. Trolltunga alone is a full day of walking before you count the drive, and there are about two hours by car between the two. Even Vøringsfossen by itself is three hours out from Bergen and three back, which makes an acceptable but tiring long day. The sensible arrangement is a night in Eidfjord or Odda, seeing the waterfall one day and the rock the next without rushing — or settling for a single day of Steinsdalsfossen and the Hardanger bridge and heading back.
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Vøringsfossen is Norway's best-known waterfall: water dropping one hundred and forty-five metres in a single fall at the head of Måbødalen, where the Hardangervidda plateau ends abruptly and breaks off into the valley as a vertical wall. The place has been known since the nineteenth century — a compulsory stop on the European travellers' tour, with a hotel built above it for the purpose. What has changed recently is how it is seen: a **stepped bridge across the gorge** opened in 2020 with ninety-nine steps, joining the two lips of the chasm and letting you look at the fall head-on, from above and from the opposite side in one circuit. It was designed to put the visitor in the air over the void rather than behind a railing. Access is easy: the fall is on national road 7 between Eidfjord and the Hardangervidda plateau, with parking right at the edge. It is free. The ground is slippery and the spray carries far — respect the barriers, because the drop here does not forgive.
Crossing the chasm for the view from both sides.
Where the Hardangervidda breaks off vertically.
Måbødalen, Eidfjord