Kingdom of the Fjords: Norway's Most Dramatic Drive

Stalheimskleiva

Fretheim Hotel

Nærøyfjorden

Stegastein

Some trips show you a country. This one makes you forget to exhale. Starting among the colourful wooden houses of Bryggen in Bergen, the route climbs north through a landscape that looks hand-carved by giants — down the vertigo-inducing hairpins of Stalheimskleiva to Flåm, where you'll spend the night at the historic Fretheim Hotel with the Aurlandsfjord right outside your window. The next day you'll cruise the Nærøyfjord itself, the narrowest and most dramatic arm of the…