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(1889) [MARC] Author: Karl Baedeker
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snow-clad Aaken or Okken (5685 ft.; magnificent -view: guide in
Husum), diverges. Several extensive moraine-deposits are passed
on this part of the route.

15 Kil. Blaaflaten (Hotel, new) lies a little to the left of the
road, which is tolerably level for the rest of the way. The valley
is still enclosed by lofty mountains, but the scenery is now
comparatively uninteresting. Beyond the Bofos, a waterfall on the
left, the road crosses the river and passes the church of Tønjum.
By the farms of Æri the valley suddenly trends towards the N.,
and we now obtain another view of the Aaken, with its peculiar
ridge resembling that of the Gausta in Telemarken. The floor of
the valley is well cultivated at places and sprinkled with farms,
bnt the mountains are bare and rocky. The traces of numerous
landslips and avalanches (Skred) are observable here. The valley
finally turns towards the W., and we now pass on the right, near
0ie, the picturesque Stønjumsfos, which descends in two falls from
the Veta-Aas and Høgan-Aas.

11 Kil. LærdalS-eren. — Hotels. *Lindstbøm’s Hotel and
Station, two houses, wilh 80 beds; R. from l1/? kr., D. 1 kr.-i kr. 60, S.
1^2 kr.; *Lærdalsørens Hotel, kept by Knud Forlhvn, R. 1 kr. 20 0.,
B. 1 kr. English spoken at both hotels. Accommodation may also be
obtained at the Villa Thingvoldex, about 3>/2 Engl. M. from Lærdalsøren.

Lærdalsøren is a ‘fast’ skyds-station both for horses and boats. —
Telegraph Station. — English Church Service at Lindstrøm’s Hotel in summer.

Lærdalsøren, generally shortened to Lærdal, the ‘ alluvial
plain of the Lærdal river’, lies on the small Lærdalsfjord and on
the broad, level, and somewhat marshy plain at the mouth of
the Lara, shut in by rocky and barren mountains. The view is
very limited. To the E., at the head of the Oftedal, rises the
Haugnaase (5250 ft.), and to the W. is the Freibottenfjeld. The
village, which boasts of a handsome new timber-built church, and
a few tolerable shops, a physician, and a chemist, is a poor place
with 800 inhab., deriving its sole importance from the fact that
it forms the principal avenue of approach on the land side to the
Sognefjord (see pp. 100, 112). The steamboat pier is nearly 2 Kil.
from the station (carriole 40-500. for each person, with luggage
60 0.). A pleasant walk may be taken along the bank of the fjord to
(1/4hr.) the winter-pier, used when the fjord is frozen, and on to
Haugene in the Eierdal.

14. The Sognefjord.

Comp, the Maps p. 100 (the inner Sognefjord) and p. 108 (the middle
Sognefjord), which join at the doited line on the right (eastern) side of the
latter.

Steamboats. Although small boats are procurable at all tlie stations
(fare 21, 31, 41 0. per Kil. for 2. 3, or 4 rowers), travellers are cautioned
against engaging them for long distances, as their speed is usually slow,
and the stations are very far apart. In making use of the steamers a
careful consultation of ’■jS’orges Communicationer’ (under the heading ‘Nordre
Bergenhus Amts Dampskibe’ No. 252l is absolutely necessary, as several

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