Day 6 Getting to Jørdeland

Going to ride the Lysevegan and then get a ferry down the Fjord to Forsand....We'll be riding down the mountain though, rather than the better way of riding one of these hairpin roads - which is up!! It's so much easier going up. We may have time before the ferry to ride back up and then down again.

Google maps couldn't route the trip in early May as the Lysevgan was still closed - hopefully it will be open before we go. Normally opens spring time, May/June so fingers crossed for this!!🤞🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️

Lysevegen Road – Lysebotn voted in the top 5 roads to ride in Norway

The 18-mile road carves its way over the mountains above the tiny village of Lysebotn, which is located at the foot of a fjord in southwest Norway. Once you’ve travelled over the mountains, the road plunges down to the floor of the fjord from a height of around 1,000m in a succession of 27 tight and steep hairpins that are just a joy to ride.

The photo above looks enticing but it’s only when you ride the road that you realise how steep those hairpin turns really are. The best part of the Lysevegen Road? It’s the only route in and out of Lysebotn, so you’ll get to ride it twice. Unless like us, you get a ferry down the Fjord. 

Ok - it's the 1st June and we're about to leave Farsund. I think we're going to get a tad wet today - will check in later and update on the progress and see how wet we actually got....

 

As it turned out, not that wet at all. It stopped raining  as we left the hotel and whilst the roads were wet and a bit greasy, the rain was no more!!

 

This was a day of 2 halves - The morning has been spent riding some more of the most fantastic roads, rising high up into the mountains where there was still the residue of snow and to our right and left, 100's of mountain lakes, large and small. The roads were winding, challenging, unforgiving and probably shouldn't be tackled by inexperienced riders. The side of the roads just dropped away into deep valleys below and they were very narrow in places.

 

Loads of tunnels and bridges across ravines - it truly was a great morning ride. Not sure we passed another car all morning. Nothing on the roads.

SO here we are at the top of the twisty, 1,000 foot drop road with 27 hairpin bends - got to be honest the previous 4 hours riding had been much better, as all we did was stick the bikes in 2nd gear to engine break all the way down. Yes we can say that we have ticked it off, but probably not worth the hype - the previous 140 miles were though!!

The 2nd part of the day was taking the ferry from Lysebotn which was a bit of fun and we got some fantastic views of Lysefjord from the ferry down to Forsand.

We did arrive a little too early and had to wait around for a couple of hours, but that was fine it was relaxing and gave time for a breather. Fortunately the rain had stayed off as there was very little to do and not much shelter in the extremely isolated place at the end of a fjord.

This is that very famous rock where the cliff can be seen on Youtube/Facebook, but it does not justify how high it actually is. I always thought it was photo-shopped with people standing or sitting with their feet dangling over the edge, but if you look carefully at this zoomed in photo you can see people right at the cliff edge!!!!!!

Eventually trundled in to Farsund and made our way across the suspension bridge and up to the hotel.  Once we arrived, obvs we had a customary tinny and off for tea - no beer in this Steakhouse, so went for Coke and a Kebab!! Called in at the super-dooper on the way home for some cheap beer, only to find Norway doesn't allow the purchase of beer after 8:00pm and we were 10 mins late!!! Oh well there's going to be zero beer tonight then. 

Early to bed to get ready for a ride along the west cost up to Bergen and for a well deserved day off - Airbnb tonight so that means Mrs C cooking and purchasing affordable beer and a bottle of wine!

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