Things to do in Jostedalsbreen
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Stryn Summer Ski Centre
Nowhere near the town of Stryn, despite its name, this ski centre is in fact on the Tystigen outlier of Jostedalsbreen, at its northernmost point. Here is Norway’s most extensive and best known summer skiing, and most of those photos of bikini-clad skiers you see around were snapped here. There are six red runs, one blue and a black. The longest alpine run extends for 2100m with a drop of 530m, and there are also 10km of cross-country ski tracks. A ski bus runs from Stryn (Nkr150 return, one hour) at 9.15am and returns from the ski centre at 4.15pm, roughly between mid-June and mid-July, depending upon snow conditions. Drivers will enjoy the scenic Gamle Strynefjellsve…
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Norwegian Glacier Museum
For the story on flowing ice and how it has sculpted the Norwegian landscape, visit this superbly executed museum, 3km inland from the ferry jetty.
The hands-on exhibits will delight children. You can learn how fjords are formed, see an excellent 20-minute multiscreen audiovisual presentation on Jostedalsbreen (so impressive that audiences often break into spontaneous applause at the end), wind your way through a tunnel that penetrates the mock-ice and even see the tusk of a Siberian woolly mammoth, which met an icy demise 30,000 years ago. There’s also an exhibit on the 5000-year-old ‘Ice Man’ corpse, which was found on the Austrian-Italian border in 1991. The newest …
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Oldedalen Skyss
Oldedalen Skyss has 'troll cars', vehicles like giant golfing carts (around NOK170 per person), to transport you the 5km to the Briksdal glacier face. From their turnaround point, there's still a 15-minute hike on a rough path to see the ice. To breathe up close in the glacier's face, take a guided trip in an inflatable dinghy. Dinghies, operated by Briksdal Adventure, depart hourly in summer. We strongly recommend advance reservation for both troll cars and dinghies as places are often snapped up by tour groups.
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Breheimsenteret Visitors Centre
The Breheimsenteret Visitors Centre, 34km up the valley from Lustrafjord, has a display that tells how glaciers were formed and how they sculpt the landscape. There's also a 20-minute film on the area and an exhibit on the girl Jostedalsrypa, the only villager to survive the Black Death. It also carries a worthwhile free pamphlet, Walking in Jostedal, that describes five short (one- to 2½-hour) walks.
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Jostedalen Breførarlag
Jostedalen Breførarlag does several guided glacier walks. Easiest is the family walk to the glacier snout and briefly along its tongue (around one hour on the ice, adult/child around NOK170/around NOK80). Fees for the two-hour (around NOK370), three-hour (around NOK450) and five-hour (NOK650) walks on the ice include the brief boat trip across Nigardsvatnet lake.
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Briksdal Adventure
Briksdal Adventure also known as Briksdal Breføring, is based at Briksdalsbre Fjellstove, the end of the blacktop road, offers guided glacier walking on Brenndalsbreen (around NOK600), the next glacial tongue north of Briksdalsbreen. Treks last between six and seven hours, including around 2½ hours on the ice and depart daily between June and August.
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Bryggja
Dine on the outside terrace of this recently opened fish restaurant or simply pop in for a drink and savour its gorgeous riverside location. If it rains, the staff simply pull over the sail-shaped cover. Decorated in nautical style, it's an intimate place (there are only 30 seats) so you'll need to reserve.
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Ice Troll
For a truly original glacial perspective, sign on for a guided kayak outing with Ice Troll. Walking and kayaking tours of seven to eight hours (around NOK750), suitable for first-timers as well as the more experienced, take you where those without paddles never get. It also does overnight sorties (1200).
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Brævasshytta Cafeteria
Do visit the Brævasshytta, built into the moraine of Bøyabreen’s latest major advance, even if it’s only for a cup of coffee. With the glacier right there and in your face, it’s like eating in an IMAX cinema, but for real.
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Olden Activ
Olden Activ, which operates from the Melkevoll Bretun camp site, is a five-minute walk down the hill. It organises a good range of treks, glacier hikes and climbs (that don't demand previous experience) in Oldendalen and adjacent valleys.
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Olden Activ
Olden Activ offers demanding 12-hour treks (around NOK750) to 2083m-high Lodalskåpa, the highest point on the Jostedal glacier. Tours set out from Sande camp site.
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Briksdal Adventure
Briksdal Adventure offers five- to six-hour guided glacier walks (your crampons crunch the ice for about half this time) on Bødalsbreen (around NOK600).
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Leirdalen Bre og Juv
Leirdalen Bre og Juv offers trout fishing (around NOK500), canyon clambering (around NOK450) and day glacier hikes (NOK550).
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Stryn Vertshus
Both inside and on its flower-bedecked terrace, the Stryn Tavern serves tasty snacks and offers free wi-fi to customers.
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Moreld
Surge down the swift-flowing Jostedalen river on one of their twice daily rafting trips (around NOK500).
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Raudskarvfjellet Turriding
Less strenuously, take a five-hour pony trip (around NOK500) with Raudskarvfjellet Turriding.
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Base Camp
Also on the main street, Stryn's most popular bar sometimes operates as a disco too.
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Coop supermarket
For wholesome, bog-standard eating, choose the cafeteria of the Coop supermarket.
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