Rallarvegen
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Do you see the road that runs alongside the train line? That is Rallarvegen one of the world’s most famous roads which has several times been voted Norway’s best cycle route - unsurprisingly! Cyclists can enjoy magnificent and powerful mountains, glaciers with white and azure ice and wide open spaces as far as the eye can see. We are now in Haugastøl in the municipality of Hol the western entry point to the Halling valley. The Bergen line was planned over high mountains, but there was no infrastructure. Therefore, a construction road of around 80 kms long was built from Haugastøl in the East to Myrdal in the west, and further down to Flåm in Aurland, so that supplies, equipment and materials could be transported to the route the rail line should follow. On the opposite side, also in Vestlandet another construction road was built from Voss to Upsete where the excavation tunnel was built to Myrdal. Throughout a short and hectic summer period hundreds of horse transports per day went over the mountain with materials and equipment and around 2500 men were in full swing working on the construction.