Religious Site Attractions In Uvdal

Norway - Borgund stavkirke (stave church)

Borgund dates back to the end of the 12th century. It had a strategic location in Sogn og Fjordane County on the old road connecting the eastern and western parts of Norway. This is an absolutely stunning beauty. It is the best preserved of all stave churches and it looks like a stave church should.

Some images courtesy of @hannekarins

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Amazing Beach in Norway

Amazing Beach in Norway

Hopperstad Stave Church / Stavkirke de Hopperstad (Norway/Norge)

(EN) Hopperstad Stave Church is a stave church, just outside the village of Vikøyri in Vik Municipality, Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. The church is currently owned by the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Norwegian Monuments. The two old parishes of Hopperstad and Hove was abolished in 1875, and replaced by the new, united, Vik parish. The new Vik Church was finished in 1877, and the two middle age churches of Hopperstad and Hove have sice then been museum churches. Vik parish is a part of Indre Sogn deanery in the Diocese of Bjørgvin.
The stave church is assumed to have been built around the year 1130 and still stands at its original location. In 1997, a series of samples from the logs were collected for dendrochronological dating of the church. A total of seven samples produced an estimate for the construction ranging from 1034 to 1116 and resulted in no definite conclusion. The only possible conclusion is that this is one of the oldest stave churches still standing.
(Wikipedia).

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Berlin to Norway by motorcycle, June 2017

Berlin Rostock Trelleborg (SE) Horten Heddal Tinnsja Sonstevatn Hovsfjorden Aurlandsfjord Stegastein Bjorgavegen Borgund Laerdaltunnel Gudvangen Hardangerfjord Norheimsund Ovre Eidfjord Voringfossen Hardangervidda Geilo Sonstevatn Drammen Varberg (SE) Öresund Gedser (DK) Rostock Berlin

8 days, ~3000km, Aprilia Pegaso 650

Music: The place inside (Silent Partner)

Norway 4K drone - Telemark/Vestfold/Buskerud- Polarpro Aurora LUT

Klipp fra første 6 mnd. med Dji Mavic Pro Music from Jukedeck - create your own at

Autumn Colors Norway

Autumn Colors Norway
the third season of the year, when crops and fruits are gathered and leaves fall, in the northern hemisphere from September to November and in the southern hemisphere from March to May

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Staafkerken in Noorwegen

Noorwegen heeft vele prachtige oude, houten kerken, de zogeheten staafkerken. Wij bezochten er een 4-tal, waaronder de staafkerk van Borgund, van Lom en van Eidsborg. Kijk voor meer info over reizen in Noorwegen op

Hadeland Lag Centennial Visit to Norway

The Hadeland Lag of America celebrated its 100th anniversary with a return to the ancestral home of its members ancestors in Gran, Jevnaker, and Lunner in Norway. The group then went on to visit other areas of southern and southwestern Norway.

Norway by car: stave-church in Heddal (part 12/13)

Day 13: From Mandal we drove to Heddal and admired the biggest stavechurch in the world. Later we continued to Kongsberg, were we wanted to visit the old silver mine. But the mine was already closed at 3 pm - even though the internet says, it's open up to 4 pm in summer. (maybe the Norwegians there earn to much money and are a little lazy). Some other tourist were also very angry. So we left this unfriendly place and drove to Oslo, our final destination in Norway.

Equipment I use:
Videocamera Sony FDRAX53
Tripod Cullmann Magic
Hero6 for Timelapse
ND-Filter GOPRO
Gimbal-Hero6-Zhiyun Evolution
Zhiyun Evolution Gimbal Mount
Zhiyun Evolution Gimbal Box (Part 1/2)
Zhiyun Evolution Gimbal Cover (Part 2/2)