8 days
|From £6,040 pp
Norway’s western fjords demand to be seen from the water, from the train, and on foot. This journey moves through all three, opening in Oslo before heading west to the UNESCO-listed Naeroyfjord, the Flamsbana railway, and the dramatic fjord landscapes of Bergen.
Travel from Oslo to Bergen by way of the Western Fjords. You begin in Oslo, where the National Museum, the Munch Museum and the Viking Ship Museum sit within reach of each other, and a waterfront that was working dockland twenty years ago is now the city’s cultural and social centre.
You move into the mountains by train, through scenery that shifts from high plateau to sheer valley walls before depositing you in Flåm, a village small enough to walk in ten minutes but set against a landscape that takes the whole of two days to begin to absorb.
Finishing in Bergen, a city founded by Vikings and shaped by centuries of sea trade, where the fish market still opens each morning and the coloured wharf buildings of Bryggen have stood since the 14th century.
Between Oslo and Bergen, the Flåmsbana railway and the UNESCO-listed Nærøyfjord do the kind of work no itinerary description can fully prepare you for.
Arrive into Oslo and transfer privately to your hotel. Oslo has one of the most concentrated collections of world-class museums of any European capital.
The National Museum, which opened in 2022, holds the largest collection of art, architecture and design in the Nordic countries. The Munch Museum sits across the fjord in Bjørvika. The Viking Ship Museum on the Bygdøy peninsula houses three of the best-preserved Viking ships in the world.
Your private guide covers the city by vehicle, starting at the Opera House, whose white granite roof slopes down to the water and was designed so you can walk across it. The Aker Brygge waterfront is where saunas float in the harbor alongside working fishing boats.
Oslo’s restaurant scene is worth a night of its own. The city now has more than a dozen Michelin-starred restaurants, most of them built around Norwegian produce and seafood from the surrounding fjord.
From Oslo, the Bergen Railway carries you west through the Hardangervidda mountain plateau to Myrdal, where you board the Flåmsbana. The descent covers roughly 20 kilometers and drops nearly 900 meters through ravines, past waterfalls and alongside rock faces, with a stop at Kjosfossen where the waterfall drops 93 meters directly beside the track.
Flåm sits at the end of the Aurlandsfjord, a short branch of the Sognefjord. The village is small and the setting is not. Mountains rise on all sides and the water runs deep enough to shift colours you would not expect from a fjord.
Do Not Disturb can arrange a private RIB into the Nærøyfjord. At its narrowest the fjord is around 250 meters across, with rock walls rising on both sides and waterfalls dropping directly into the water below. It is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and it earns it.
A half-day hike to the Turlid waterfall or a morning by kayak can be added for those wanting more time in the valley.
From Flåm, the private transfer to Bergen passes through Gudvangen at the end of the Nærøyfjord, then up through Voss before the final descent into the city. Founded by the Vikings in the 11th century, it was for several hundred years the largest city in Norway and the main trading port of the Hanseatic League, a network that stretched across northern Europe.
The coloured wooden buildings of Bryggen, the old wharf district, have stood in various forms since the 14th century and are now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Your private guide covers Bryggen and the Hanseatic Museum before continuing to Troldhaugen, Edvard Grieg’s former home on the shore of Nordåsvannet lake south of the city. The villa and composing hut are preserved as they were during his lifetime. Mount Fløyen is reached by funicular from the city centre, with views across the harbor and the seven surrounding mountains.
Bergen rewards a slower pace. The fish market, the covered market at Torget, the galleries along Vågsallmenningen and the cable car to Ulriken at 643 meters all work better without a fixed schedule.
For those wanting to go further into the fjords, a day cruise on the Hardangerfjord covers Norway’s second-longest fjord and the fruit-orchard villages along its southern shore, with the trees still in blossom through early summer.
On the last evening, dinner at one of the harbor restaurants. Bergen has sold fish from this waterfront since the 14th century. The seafood is as good as it gets in Norway.
A multi-day dog sledding expedition on the Finnmarksvidda plateau in northern Norway covers 25 to 40 kilometres a day through terrain that has no roads and no artificial light. Guests drive their own sled, stay overnight in wilderness cabins and spend several days covering ground that is otherwise inaccessible in winter. The season runs from December through March.
Every January the skrei arrive in Lofoten, and they have been doing so since before the Viking Age. A private fishing and cooking experience puts the guest directly in a cycle that has shaped these islands for over a thousand years.
Tromsø sits beneath the Auroral Oval in northern Norway, giving it some of the most consistent Northern Lights conditions in the world. A private boat charter departs when conditions are right, moves to the darkest available fjord and stays as long as the display warrants.
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