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On from Narvik
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There's a choice of several routes on from Narvik. The
rail link
, cut through the mountains a century ago, runs east and then south into Sweden, reaching Kiruna in three and Stockholm in eighteen hours. It's a beautiful journey, but
bus
travellers, heading north on the
Nord-Norgeekspressen
to Tromso and Alta, do no worse with a succession of switchback roads, lakeside forests, high peaks, gentle valleys and plunging, black-blue fjords. In summer, cut grass dries everywhere, stretched over wooden poles forming long lines on the hillsides like so much washing. Narvik is also connected to Svolv?r, on the Lofotens, by bus and catamaran. Note that on all these buses and the catamaran InterRail and Scanrail pass holders get a fifty-percent discount. Other useful information
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Norway,
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