The catamaran M/S Holly running at speed on the Sognefjord, a white wake spreading behind her, guests on the open upper deck and green farmland and mountains along the far shore

Signature · No. I

Mountains & Fjords

Half the group goes by water and half over the mountain — then everyone swaps.

Catamaran & the Tindevegen · 5 hours

Duration
5 hours
Guests
34–146 a run
Season
May–October
Tour code
SKJ-M&F

The group divides on the pier. One half boards M/S Holly and sails down the Lustrafjord and into the Årdalsfjord, with rock walls rising a thousand metres on either side. The other half climbs the Tindevegen in a mountain coach — the road is closed to anything over ten metres, so that half rides in the short mountain coaches.

Everyone meets at the Klingenberg Hotell in Årdalstangen for coffee and a cinnamon bun. Then you trade places, and go home the way the others came. Five hours, and not a kilometre seen twice.

  • The Lustrafjord and the Årdalsfjord from the deck of M/S Holly
  • The Tindevegen across the mountain, under the Hurrungane
  • Coffee and a freshly baked cinnamon bun at the Klingenberg Hotell
  • One way by water, the other by road

The day, hour by hour

Gangway to gangway

  1. 00:00 Departure Skjolden pier. Bus-first groups: coach onto the Tindevegen mountain road. Boat-first groups: board M/S Holly and cruise the Lustrafjord and Årdalsfjord
  2. 00:40 Coach groups: a brief photo stop (max 5 minutes) at Tindevegen Viewpoint
  3. 00:50 Continue over the Tindevegen / continue fjord cruise; both halves arrive Årdalstangen
  4. 02:00 Klingenberg Hotell, Årdalstangen: coffee & cinnamon bun for all groups (~30 min; also the drivers' statutory rest break)
  5. 02:30 Swap at the Årdalstangen quay: boat groups to the coaches, coach groups aboard the catamaran — boarding and headcount
  6. 03:00 Return leg the opposite way: coach groups cruise back down the fjord, boat groups cross the Tindevegen
  7. 05:00 Arrive back at the cruise pier

00:00 is the moment the group leaves the pier — not a clock time.