Geiranger
Everybody photographs this view! This is the third biggest cruise ship port in Norway and it receives 140 to 180 ships during the four-month tourist season. In 2012 some 300,000 cruise passengers visited Geiranger during the summer season. Several hundred thousand people pass through every summer, and tourism is the main business for the 250 people who live there permanently. There are five hotels and over ten camping sites. The tourist season stretches from May to early September; in the off-season the pace and activity are reduced to that of a normal small Norwegian town. We were told that Geiranger is existing on borrowed time because one day part of the mountainside is going to plunge into the fjord in a similar fashion to what happened in Lodalen where 1905 and 1936 part of the mountain broke off causing a tsunami which destroyed the villages of Nesdal and Bødal. 135 people lost their lives.
Geiranger
Everybody photographs this view! This is the third biggest cruise ship port in Norway and it receives 140 to 180 ships during the four-month tourist season. In 2012 some 300,000 cruise passengers visited Geiranger during the summer season. Several hundred thousand people pass through every summer, and tourism is the main business for the 250 people who live there permanently. There are five hotels and over ten camping sites. The tourist season stretches from May to early September; in the off-season the pace and activity are reduced to that of a normal small Norwegian town. We were told that Geiranger is existing on borrowed time because one day part of the mountainside is going to plunge into the fjord in a similar fashion to what happened in Lodalen where 1905 and 1936 part of the mountain broke off causing a tsunami which destroyed the villages of Nesdal and Bødal. 135 people lost their lives.