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==NORWAYNorway, A PARADISE FOR HITCHHIKINGa paradise for hitchhiking ==
[[User:Francisco1|Francisco1]]
I hitchhiked up alone from Göteborg in Sweden to Bergen in just 2 days, in March. Although the main road between the 2 biggest cities (E16) was closed due to a snowstorm, I took route number 7, wich passes by a beautifull fjord. I always found rides, and got helped by the people, it was overall a great experience.
From Rygge to Honefoss I was unsure of how it would go because I had read that Oslo is hard to hitchhike out of, but the driver that picked me up (old norwegian man, the kind of person you would expect to be untrusty of foreigners) took me through the Oslo Fjord through Drommak, Slemmestad, past Sandvika and left me on the road going to Honefoss.
Later that same day I was left at Flå, a tiny village and the people there advised me to camp in the woods besides a bear park.
The next day a lady picked me up from there and invited me for coffe coffee at her place where she checked the roads that were open (because of snowstorms), and let me use her internet to look for couchsurfing. The driver after that actually took me up to the mirador on the top of the Aurland Fjord to make me and another hitchhiker we found on the road visit, and then left me at Flåm, this making an almost 30 km and maybe an hour-long detour from his road. I then got to Bergen almost without waiting, wich which is amazing considering the roads were closed and the tunnels were alternating traffic for pollution. Maybe it was the fact that it was during easter Easter holidays but I found Norway to be the best country for hitchhiking so far.
Do think of the weather, it can get pretty cold and rainy (or snowy) and the distances are very big between the more populated east side of the country and the cities in the West Coast. Maybe taking a warm tent as I did was the best idea ever, the experience of camping in the woods in those mountains was very nice.
Enjoy your trip !
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