The new tourism

The English upper class fell in love with the area from the mid-1800s onwards. Large yachts and luxury ships brought tourists to Øye, where they traveled by horse and carriage through Norangsdalen to Hellesylt, where the boats awaited them. Amid this influx of Europe's elite, dairymaids worked. They went up to the mountain dairy farms in the evening to milk and stayed overnight for morning chores. The next morning, they tended the animals, took the milk down to Øye, and worked on the farms during the day before returning to the mountain dairy farms in the evening.