Lysefjord

Forty-two kilometres of water with walls falling nearly vertically for over a thousand metres, and in places the fjord is as deep as the mountains beside it are high, thirteen metres where it meets the sea at Forsand, over four hundred by the time it passes beneath Preikestolen. The name means light fjord and is said to come from the pale granite along its sides. Glaciers cut it and the sea filled it when they went. The sides are too steep for any road, so only Forsand and Lysebotn stand at either end and the settlements between are reached by boat.