The Fv655 from Ørsta to Hellesylt, a Norwegian road with wonderful landscapes

I'm one of those people who likes to drive, not just to get around, but also to enjoy the journey.

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I suppose that's because I live in a region of Spain, Galicia, with beautiful landscapes, but there are other places in the world where driving is also a pleasure for the eyes. One of them is the province of Møre og Romsdal in western Norway, which is crossed by the Fv655 district road, built between 1893 and 1896, a 51-kilometer road that runs through the sparsely populated and little-known Norangsdalen valley.

Norangsdalen is surrounded by the Sunnmørsalpene Mountains (or Sunnmøre Alps), a mountain range that reaches 1,700 meters above sea level. During the harsh Norwegian winter months, it's an ideal skiing area, and when the snow melts, those mountains are a fabulous place for hiking. Two months ago, Dashcam Roadshow posted a video driving that road from Ørsta to Hellesylt, including a ferry ride across the Norangsfjord, departing from the beautiful village of Sæbø:

You can see some screenshots from this video here, with details about what we see in each one. This is the first leg of the trip, from Ørsta to Sæbø. If you showed me the image without giving me any details, I'd mistake it for a Galician road.

Here we see a ferry in the small port of Sæbø, on the shores of the Norangsfjord. From this port, there are boat trips to Standal, Trandal, and Leknes. The author of the video took the ferry to the latter town, located on the island of Vestvågøya. Norway is the European country with the longest coastline. It has 239,057 islands and more than 1,700 fjords, so bridges and ferries are essential to explore most of its coast.

A picture of the beautiful village of Øye, also located on the banks of the Norangsfjord. On the left, we see the elegant building of the Hotel Union Øye, which has been offering accommodation to travelers in this area since 1891. A beautiful classic Morgan car is parked next to it.

This is the section of the road from Øye to Hellesylt through Norangsdalen, a narrow valley that in some areas is only 200 meters wide from one side to the other.