Some Norwegian roads ask a little more of the driver, and this is one of them. Running through the valleys toward Odda in the Hardanger region, the route squeezes between steep mountainsides on roads narrow enough that meeting an oncoming car means slowing right down and easing past with care.
This is a corridor that draws both industry and tourism, and you'll understand why the moment the valley walls close in around you. The roads are tight and the close calls are part of the experience — but, as the drive shows, local drivers know the score and take it easy. In exchange for the concentration, you get genuinely captivating scenery: sheer rock, tumbling water and the kind of dramatic, hemmed-in landscape that the Hardanger area does so well, all building toward the town of Odda.
It's a reminder that in Norway the journey really is the destination. Press play to thread the valleys from the driver's seat, and find more of my fjord-country drives on my channel.
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