Alta; Tuesday, 23 May, 2023

The earliest start of the trip with a 10:55 departure from Alta, and once again a service that only ran once a day back down to Tromsø.

So far the first two legs of the journey could be categorised as Kirkenes to Hammerfest being all about the Fjords and Mountains, whilst Hammerfest to Alta was the River and snow-capped plateau it was clear that this leg over to Tromsø was going to be about raw engineering as we left Alta through a series of impressive tunnels and bridge. Within about 20 minutes I’d already lost count of how many tunnels we’d passed through and that number only increased throughout the journey.

Just over an hour after we left Alta the bus reached the town of Burfjord where there was a 20 minute or so comfort break, but also a chance to get a first view of the might Lyngen alps that would also dominate the journey for the day.

Over some more impressive bridges and then briefly up into the mountains before descending back down to fjord level and the next stop indicator on the bus started to show that there was over an hours gap between two upcoming stops, indicating we were about to board our first ferry journey of the trip.