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Flåm is one of Norway's largest tourist attractions, with an estimated half a million visitors annually. The Flåm Railway Documentation Centre provides information into the building of the Flåm Railway and the technical challenge facing this engineering work through the use of different exhibitions with text, image and sound.
The village of Flåm has since the late 19th century been a tourist destination. It currently receives almost 450,000 visitors a year. Most ride the 20-kilometre (12 mi) Flåm Line between Flåm and Myrdal , one of the steepest railway tracks at 1 in 18 (not counting rack railways ) in the world.
(Some of the Flam tourist maps are orientated with South at the top.) The waterfall is located about 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) northeast of Myrdal Station . During the main tourist season in the summer an actress dressed as a legendary Huldra (a seductive forest creature in Scandinavian folklore) dances and sings in front of the waterfall as the ...
The Flåm Line starts at Myrdal Station, where it connects with the Bergen Line.. The Flåm Line runs from Myrdal on the Bergen Line to Flåm. Myrdal Station is located in a mountain pass at 863.6 meters (2,833 ft) above mean sea level (AMSL), while Flåm Station is located at 2.0 meters (6 ft 7 in) AMSL.
Flåm Utvikling manages the tourist line Flåm Line (Flåmsbana) in Vestland county, Norway. [1] Flåm Utvikling AS is a tourism company whose aim is to strengthen and further develop the tourism industry in Flåm in Aurland municipality. The company is a subsidiary of Aurland Ressursutvikling and was founded in 1997.
The administrative center is the village of Aurlandsvangen. Other villages include Bakka, Flåm, Undredal, and Gudvangen. The 1,468-square-kilometre (567 sq mi) municipality is the 60th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Aurland is the 294th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 1,775.
Trolltunga is located 17 kilometres (11 mi) from the town of Odda.The city of Bergen, is about 190 kilometres (120 mi) from the site via main roads.. The trailhead is located by a small parking area with toilet facilities at Skjeggedal, about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) from Norwegian National Road 13 in Tyssedalen, near the dam at the end of Ringedalsvatnet.
A visitor center may be a Civic center at a specific attraction or place of interest, such as a landmark, national park, national forest, or state park, providing information (such as trail maps, and about camp sites, staff contact, restrooms, etc.) and in-depth educational exhibits and artifact displays (for example, about natural or cultural history).