Voyage North - photo essay (18) Geiranger

The village of Geiranger lies at the top of Geirangerfjord - the 'most beautiful', 'most photographed' fjord in Norway. The postcard photos typically show it bathed in sunshine . . . that wasn't the weather that we had!

approaching Geiranger village

In this next photo you can see two ships moored, one (the larger) on the pier and the smaller at anchor. The latter is the ship that I was on, so we had to be ferried ashore in a tender boat shuttle - two lifeboats are used for this, one on each side of the ship. Marco Polo is a ship of venerable age but in good running order. Many of us were distressed to see the larger American cruise ship - a much newer vessel - spewing polluting blue smoke (which be clearly seen in this mage) into the fjord.