Cascada Hivjufossen

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FA YEARS: In 793, when the Vikings burned the Lindisfarne monastery, in England, the Iberian Peninsula was from the Caliphate of Córdoba (with Abderrahman II) and only a territory in the north, Asturias, had independence. In that year, the sovereign was Alfonso II. On the other hand, the pressure of Charlemagne was strong in the Catalan territory and Girona was occupied at the end of the 8th century.

We started to walk from the car park to the RV50, where a sign explains the circular route that we will do somewhat modified. The goal is to visit the waterfall of Hivjufossen and the Hallingkarvet massif, for which we have first passed through Hol, a municipality that includes the place of Geilo, which, in fact, is a ski center. We are inside the valley of Hallingdal, in a valley surrounded by mountains on each side. The altitude of the village is 800 meters and the highest peak around us does not exceed 1178 meters above sea level. To locate us on the map of Norway, we must add that we are 250km northwest of Oslo and 260km east of Bergen.

The Hallingskarvet area has been declared a National Park in order to preserve its almost virgin nature. It is a 35 km long and 5-meter plateau, especially considered by hikers. Until Geilo arrives the famous train of Flam that begins in the town of Flaam, of only 500 inhabitants, next to the fiord Aurlandsfjord. The name of Flaam derives from the old Norwegian (Flá) that comes to mean plain place. In Hol and in the national park there are three lakes. Slattaholen, Vestlejorden and Youalsfjorden, this last one the greatest of all. It should be said that the Hallingskarvet is one of the largest alpine plateaus in Europe.
We have entered a birch forest ("betula pendula") ... ...

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