Day 14 was our second-to-last full day, and with tomorrow's weather forecasted to be shit, we headed back into the fjords for the third and final time.

Having seen two massive fjords in the last two days, today we targeted some smaller ones, specifically two arms of the massive Sognefjord that we saw a couple days ago. The first of those arms was the stunning Nærøyfjord - 17kms long and only 500 metres wide in parts. This fjord has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2005, and has been rated by National Geographic as the world's number one natural heritage site. We were really hoping to find canoe hire or something and hang out on the fjord for the day - even the fucking big Viking ship there would've been fine but it was too early in the season apparently and we found nothing :(

Regardless, there is plenty more to see around here so it wasn't a big deal and maybe even a blessing in disguise.

This was another one of our awesome lunch spots, which was right beside what turned out to be a school (though you wouldn't think it to look at it). The kids appeared to be leaving for the day as we were arrived. This was in the little town of Flåm - a very touristy spot in summer for a number of reasons but surrounded by pretty much nothing in the way of civilisation. As such, some of the kids were bundled into waiting cars, some started walking down the road towards the centre of town, and others hung about waiting for various buses to take them further into the middle of nowhere. It would be an interesting childhood!

Since there was nothing to do at the Nærøyfjord we instead drove to its neighbouring arm, the Aurlandsfjord - just as long (or short) and just as stunning! These two fjords usually get talked about as one, and as such here's a good website on them both from Norway's tourist board.

Imagine if this was your job - driving that ferry through the fjords. It'd be hard to get sick of that!

Aurlandsfjord, as seen from the village of Aurlandsvangen.

Up the mountain a ways from Aurlandsvangen is this brilliant lookout - the recently constructed Stegastein Lookout at 650m above sea level.

From here you get the most incredible view over the Aurlandsfjord and where it meets its mate the Nærøyfjord in the distance to the right, where they both meet the Sognefjord. The village of Aurlandsvangen can be seen along the coast below - population 550. Video here.

From Stegastein Lookout we drove back down the mountain and around the corner to this - Lærdal Tunnel, the longest road tunnel in the world at 24.5kms in length. Construction started in 1995 and the tunnel was opened in 2000. It was the final link on the new main highway connecting Oslo and Bergen without ferry connections and difficult mountain crossings during the winter. Here marked another occasion where I just stopped the car in the middle of the road and got out to take photos hahaha!

It takes about 20 minutes to drive through this thing, which is a long time to be driving through a monotonous tunnel. Therefore, the tunnel is divided into four sections at 6km intervals. While the main tunnel has white lights, these caves have blue lighting with yellow lights at the fringes to give an impression of sunrise. The caves are meant to "break the routine, providing a refreshing view and allowing drivers to take a short rest."

And this is what greets you out the other side, the adorable little valley town of Lærdal with a population of 2,200.

This is one of the cutest towns I've ever seen, and it marked the final destination of our fantastic jaunt through the fjords.

With that we headed back to Bergen, and back to our local store. In a bid to save money (and because we'd been getting back to town really late every night) we'd been having these really unappetizing microwave ready-meals for dinner. Cheap, but you wouldn't want to live on them.

You can give her Mr Muscle to clean the oven, or you can give the old girl a bit of stiff ;)