Hardangerfjord
Long, deep fjord lined with steep fruit orchards that blossom white each spring below a glacier.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Hardangerfjord, a day trip from Bergen, is about the people who farm its slopes and the orchards they coax out of ground most growers would abandon. It reaches back to the English monks said to have brought fruit trees here in the Middle Ages, and forward to a third-generation apple farmer working beneath the Folgefonna glacier. Best heard with a view across the water to the hillside rows.
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