People in Iceland had told me Norway was 3x more expensive. I thought they were exaggerating. How can Norway be 3x more expensive when Iceland is a remote island that has to ship everything in.

But Norway sticker shock was slowly setting in. I wanted to visit a folk museum the other side of town but city bus fare was 50K ($10). OMG $10 just to take a bus 1.5km. I can walk it thanks! And that was just a one way ticket, its 50K ($10) to come back again!!

Before walking all that way where there wouldn't be shops I wanted to get something to eat while I was still in the city centre. I went to the main mall to look for food. Never mind prices, they didn't even have restaurants in the mall. How can you have nowhere to buy food in the mall??!

What was interesting however was how the mall had been hollowed out and hidden. From street level it looks like the old wood houses which they kept but the interior has been opened into a large shopping complex. I was to see more of these hidden malls in Trondheim and Bergen.

I wanted to visit the Folk Museum on the other side of town. I had visited a similar outdoor museum last time in Oslo which was quite good and even had a giant wooden Stave Church.

I'd checked the route on google and you had to get to a mountain tunnel and turn left. I wasn't sure how to since I was on foot so I was going to give it a try and if the tunnel wasn't passable I'd head back.

There were stairs leading to the houses above the tunnel so I took that route. It was a long steep climb as the road climbed the mountain. Then a group of locals effortlessly came by practicing their uphill skiing as they whisked their way all the way up the mountain road.

Eventually I made it and entrance was 70K ($14). Similar to the one in Oslo there were several old buildings whose interior you can see in their original form.

There were various aspects of daily life such as post office, pharmacy, grocery store, etc.

In another section some had been turned into a museum of skiing and Olympic history.

There were various groups of buildings spread out over a large outdoor area. The weather was fortunate as I remember my last time in Oslo it was quite muddy.

The buildings represented various types of architecture or periods of history. There were also stone ruins of a fortress in the centre.

It was quite picturesque with the clear weather, blue skies, and local vegetation

Tired from my long walk here and having not had lunch I wanted to head back to town. As I entered the main building with the café surprisingly there was a whole other indoor museum I didn't even know about

The interior was quite massive and seemed to stretch forever. They had a collection of ladies gowns, and everyday life.

It was worth the long trek to get here and heading back would be all downhill.