2011-08-05 -- 13: Nordic trip part 2, Höga Kusten to Bodö, Norway.

After saying goodbye to our young ones in Gävle, we continued to Höga Kusten (High Coast). We passed the famous Höga Kusten bridge, which is kind of a port to this beautiful area when you drive from the south.

To avoid traffic and enjoy the drive fully, we selected smaller roads. After many days of beautiful weather, it is now and then rainy, but the drive is still very scenic.

Höga kusten ends at Umeå, and here we took a left turn and started driving E12 or Blå Vägen (Blue Road) as it is called. The road follows the river Ume älv, and is really beautiful. The fishing in the area is suppose to be very good, so we tried our luck a couple of times without any luck. We are a little bit more lucky when it comes to picking blueberries.

More or less every night we spent next to a river in the wilderness.

We had a overnight stop in Tärnaby - the village that produced top skiers like Ingemar Stenmark, Anja Persson and Stig Strand. From Tärnaby we headed towards the border to Norway. Our first destination in Norway is Svartisen - a glacier north of Mo i Rana. We used the road signs and ended up in a camping just next to a lake with a fantastic view to the glacier. There was a small ferry that offered transportation to the other side of the lake, but we decided to let our GPS (Gertrud) find the roads to Svartisen glacier. Our GPS didn´t make it, and Svartisen is still an illusion for us.

We stopped at the Arctic Circle monument for a short brake, before we continued towards Bodö and the ferry to Lofoten.
 











Some more pictures: NordicTripPart2