The Bridal Veil
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For around two weeks every year, a very special phenomenon occurs right where we are passing now. Melt water from the high Sunnmøre Mountains reaches its climax here when the water rushes down the mountain and creates what is known as the bridal veil. The waterfall of the same name then produces a beautiful fine spray, which together with the wind fans the water across the mountain road like a beautiful transparent bridal veil. If the sun is shining it creates an incredibly beautiful rainbow effect, which gets the tourists’ cameras clicking. There are seven other places in Norway that have waterfalls called the Bridal Veil, but this is the most famous and is ranked amongst the 50 biggest waterfalls in Norway. Directly above and next to the famous waterfall the mountain farms Megardsplassen and Horvadrag hang on two narrow ledges almost 500 metres above sea level. The last tenants left the farm in 1900, but considered moving back the year after, but by then an avalanche had taken all the houses and washed them into the fjord. Had they still been living there; they too would have followed their house down to the bottom of the fjord.