Mountain walks

There are guided walks to Veslehorn every Tuesday and Friday from 12 June to 7 September (medium graded walk).

If you would like to know more about Hemsedal’s nature, history and landscape, you can join a mountain walk guided by a Culture Pilot from Hemsedal every Saturday from 19 July to 4 October. The programme varies from week to week.

The Top 20 walking programme was a great success last summer. The mountain walks are graded from easy (green and blue) to more demanding routes (red and black). The last two summers (2006 and 2007) more than 40,000 people from five different continents walked in the Hemsedal mountains and wrote themselves into the Top 20 tour books.

Suggested round trips by car

Hemsedal Tourist Information Office has prepared a guide which includes seven suggestions for round trips from Hemsedal and descriptions of what you can see along the way. The guide costs NOK 40 and may be purchased from Hemsedal Tourist information Office.

The tours are:

• The Panorama Route from Mountain to Pasture
• In the Footsteps of History over Filefjell
• Among Steep Mountains and Glittering Fjords
• Wild Nature and Meagre Cultivated Landscape
• Over the Mountains from Valley to Valley
• From Fjord to Glacier
• Bear and Wolf Tour

The best seller

The fjords in a day with your own car? Drive from Hemsedal via Borgund Stave Church, through the Lærdal Tunnel to Flåm (allow two hours).  Take the Flåm Railway up and down, enjoy the bustle of Flåm cruise ship harbour or stop and enjoy the old town and the Wild Salmon Centre in Lærdal.  The Sognefjord cruise departs Flåm at 1 pm. The boat stops at Undredal, a tiny village of 130 people and 500 goats. Undredal Church, dating from 1147, is the smallest stave church in Norway.

On the way into the majestic Nærøyfjord (an UNESCO World Heritage site), a stop is made at the old farm at Styvi before the voyage continues to Gudvangen. There is a chance to fish from the boat.

Price for the cruise and return bus Gudvangen – Flåm: Adults NOK 295, children 3 - 15 years NOK 145, family NOK 610.

The boat departs daily between 18 June and 31 August, as well as on Wednesdays 4 and 11 June. 

Tickets for the boat can be bought at Hemsedal Tourist Information Office.

If you want to enjoy three spectacular highlights in one day, drive back on the Snow Road over the mountains between Aurland and Lærdal.

Families with children

For families with children you should visit EKT Langedrag Mountain Park (85 kilometres from Hemsedal), the Bear Park at Flå (85 kilometres from Hemsedal) and Tropicana Water Park at Gol (30 kilometres from Hemsedal).

Rafting trip

For those seeking an adrenaline rush, why not go rafting? Dagali Rafting organises rafting every day from 20 May to 15 October at 10 am and 3 pm.

Prices starting at NOK 350 (including all equipment and transport). Book at Hemsedal Tourist Office.