The mountain lodge was built at the beginning of the 1950’s and has been extensively modernized on a couple of occasions since then. Most recently in 2004. Today the mountain lodge is a comfortable hotel with a distinct homelike atmosphere so characteristic of the Norwegian tradition of a “fjellstue”. It has several lounges and small settee areas, where guests can relax and digest in comfort the personal experiences and impressions of the day. It has a lovely dining room with that special Nordic light that seats 80 guests. All in all the mountain lodge is a homely, relaxed and embracing place.
There are 17 twin/double bedrooms with ensuite bathrooms all of which can accommodate at least two people. There are also 9 bedrooms without ensuite bathrooms. Instead they have sinks in each room and communal showers and bathrooms in the corridor. These rooms are recently established and refurbished as of January 2004.
What we particularly pride ourselves in at Fagerhøy Mountain Lodge – leaving the magnificent surroundings aside for a moment – is our food. Everything is prepared and cooked from scratch, and our Danish chef is very keen to produce food that not only tastes good but looks good as well.
We have our own smokery that we use for smoking meat, fish and wildfowl. Renowned in the area is our smoked salmon. When we have group bookings, we very often enjoy an evening in the smokery with guests taking part and where the dinner is taken there as well: freshly smoked Norwegian salmon with all the traditional trimmings: sour cream, “spekemat”, potato salad, fresh salad, scramled egg and flatbread. All of this with gentle whiffs of smoke in your nostrils coming from the smokery
Weather permitting we sometimes dine on our outside patio overlooking the lake. Should it start to rain or feel a bit cold, we can retreat to our “lavvo”, which is a heavy duty Arctic circular tent with an open fire at the centre and benches made from rough timber logs and reindeer skin to sit on. Again this is a unique experience that we know our guests keep talking about long after their stay with us.
The nature surrounding Fagerhøy
Fagerhøy is situated at 1000 m above sea level right on the tree line. We have extensive views to mountain tops in the area. And after a couple of hours of trekking you reach summits from where you can see the Hardanger National Park and in good weather conditions also the Hardanger Jøkul (glacier). But perfect for a little evening stroll is a walk up to our own little summit at 1034 m above sea level. It takes only 15 minutes to walk there, and from the summit you have an excellent view across to the fells in Hemsedal, Geilo and the Gol Fell. The terrain around Fagerhøy is generally easy for hiking. There are no steep climbs and the whole plateau opens up to wonderful views.
The surrounding area
A short distance away by car, app. 30 minutes, we are fortunate to have the biggest attraction of the area, Langedrag Nature Park, which is a singularly Norwegian experience. The site is situated at 1000 m above sea level and has fantastic panoramic views over lakes and mountains. All the buildings are log cabins (in Norwegian “laftehusa”) which is the old Norwegian way of building houses whereby whole tree trunks are kitted together which gives you a solid structure, a warm interior and a very harmonic house with turf on the roof.. The houses themselves are not the main attraction however. The main focal point at Langedrag are the animals and particularly the wolves. There are two wolf kennels there. One with wild wolves in which you can experience how shy the wolf really is. And one which shows an altogether different side of a wolf. Here you will find two domesticated wolves which have grown up with human beings, and today after five years of domestication it is still possible for the two people who have known the wolves from little to walk up to them feed them and generally be leader of the pack. Warnings were raised from animal sanctuaries from around the world that this sort of behaviour would be impossible once the wolves had come of age, but they have demonstrated at Langepark that it is possible. In addition to wolves Langedrag is involved in a project which aims at saving the mountain fox which is now an endangered species in Norway today due to worsening living conditions. Apart from the mountain fox Langedrag shows the following animals: zo lynx, and then of course all the well known species such as pigs, horses, oxen, sheeps, etc., but at Langedrag they are dedicated to showing us how the animals were before we humans began interfering with nature. So all these ordinary animals are of the “old model”, i.e. the original race. To allow you to learn as much as possible during your visit there are guided tours run by the staff who deal with the animals on a daily basis.
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