Hellesylt Travel Guide

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If you walk up the main street that winds its way up the mountain, you'll soon get to the church. You can sign their visitors' book and sit on a bench in front of it to admire the view of the village, the fiord and the mountains.

The special about this place is that it's a gasstation??!

Favorite Dish: If you are going to Hellesylt you MUST try the bagett on the local gasstation! You can choose between cheese and ham or a taco edition.. The taste is fantstic, and it is a cheap meal.

If you have come to Hellesylt in your car and want to take it on the ferry, the queue for the ferry is before the bridge, some way from the actual port. The reason for that is that there is not enough space in the port for all the waiting cars, and you must first let the cars that have just arrived on the ferry leave the port, crossing the one-lane bridge to be able to get to the ferry yourself. While you are standing in the queue, you can get out of the car and sit on the benches there, watching out for the otters on the river banks.

Favorite thing: The houses of Hellesylt are lined up along the winding road uphill, which is so steep that you can actually look into people's backyards or inside their houses from the street above. And sometimes not even that: the older houses are so low that you can see just their roofs at your eye level. I particularly liked this traditional roof made of stone slabs with the ladder up to the chimney. If you look at the village from the river embankment, it resembles a Christmas card where the perspective has been forgotten and the houses are on top of each other with the church in the middle.