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But in this instance, the shutterbugs’ insouciant next bridal-veil waterfall or red timber-clad home,
subject isn’t the least bit concerned with undulat- perched in splendid isolation like a lone cardinal in
ing dimples peppering supernatural assets. That’s a forest.
because those gob-smacking, gravity-defying For many visitors to Bergen, this bite-sized voy-
slopes belong not to a cartoonishly curvaceous age may be their only experience of Norway’s fa-
celebrity, but to the extraordinary fjords of Nor- mous fjords. That’s not because this country’s
way. craggy coast fails to intrigue, but rather because
I’m on a three-hour journey through the Oster- it’s so difficult to escape the gripping gravitational
fjord, a round-trip cruise from Bergen—Norway’s pull of this hip university city, with its picturesque
second largest city, after Oslo---to Mostraumen, harbor, colorful clapboard architecture, and surf-
where brightly-painted houses cling to the water’s and-turf Scandi scenery ranging from sea to sky-
edge beneath fir-fringed mountains. As our ferry skimming summits, easily accessed via a funicular
surges through steel-blue waters, most passen- and cable car.
gers head to the deck, eyes straining to spot the

Left: At Bergen’s BarBarista, your Above: The Fløibanen Funicular
crazy aunt’s attic meets Day of the whisks you from central Bergen to
Dead décor. Waffles are a a panoramic viewpoint on Mt.
particular specialty here. Copyright Fløyen. Copyright Amy
Amy Laughinghouse. Laughinghouse.

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