Fjord sights in Europe

1. Himmel & Hav

   • Roskilde, Denmark
   • Sights › Fjord

   There's a sandy Blue-Flag beach on the edge of Roskilde Fjord, 4km north of the Viking Ship Museum. You can hire kayaks for kr75/kr375 per hour/day from Himmel & Hav, next door to Roskilde Camping. It's a 20-minute bus ride (19kr) from town.

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2. Flydalsjuvet

   • Geiranger, Norway
   • Sights › Fjord

   Somewhere you've seen that classic photo, beloved of brochures, of the overhanging rock Flydalsjuvet, usually with a figure gazing down at a cruise ship in Geirangerfjord. The car park, signposted to Flydalsjuvet, about 5km uphill from Geiranger on the Stryn road, offers a great view of the fjord and the green river valley, but doesn't provide exactly the postcard view.

   For that, you'll have to drop about 150m down the hill, then descend a slippery and rather indistinct track to the edge. Your intrepid photo subject will have to scramble down gingerly to the overhang about 50m further along…

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3. The Southern Fjords

   • Greenland
   • Sights › Fjord

   Astonishingly grand spires of granite soar straight out of Greenland's southernmost fjords like the teeth of an interplanetary crocodile. Climbers rate the rock faces of peaks like Uiluit Qaaqa (Ketil), Ulamertorsuaq (Uli) and The Baroness as among the world's finest challenges.

   For the less active it's easy to put your head right in the crocodile's mouth by simply cruising down one of the fjords.

   Most visits start from Nanortalik, itself a truly delightful village whose entire old town area has been preserved as a heart-burstingly picturesque living museum. The main choice is between Tasermiut, a truly grand fjord leading to a nose of glacier, or the shorter but arguably…

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