Besseggen is one of the foot trails marked up and maintained by the Norwegian Trekking Association, and with more the 30.000 visitors completing this hike annually, it has to be Norway's most popular mountain hike. When you follow this specific trail, you walk from the cabin called Gjendesheim to the cabin called Memurubu (or the other way around, like we did), across an edge between two lakes, and return by boat to where you started or walk onwards on another trail to another cabin.
One of the reasons why this particular hike might be so popular, especially among foreign tourists, is that it is mentioned in the play Peer Gynt, written by one of the most famous writers of Norway - Henrik Ibsen. But I guess the main reason is the peculiar sight of two lakes that are lying right next to each other, but are coloured differently. One of the lakes - Bessvatnet - has a dark blue colour; while the other - called Gjende - has a light green colour due to the micro organisms living in glacier water.
The hike is estimated to normally take 6 to 8 hours, but we finished the hike in 4 hours and 26 minutes! We might be getting into shape again!
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