Hi! My husband and I will be traveling to Norway the first week of September after spending 3 full days, 4 nights in Copenhagen. We're flying out of Oslo back home. We've been debating the direction we want to take into Norway's Fjord region and whether it's worth a stop in Bergen. We have 2 full days in the region. Our original plan was to fly into Bergen from Copenhagen and explore Bergen for the afternoon/evening, sleep there and then do the NiN travel into Flam/Aurland and stay in Aurland for 2 nights before traveling to Oslo for a day and a half before we fly home.
It seems if you go from Bergen you miss the main draw of the train from Oslo into Flam/Aurland AND the train/bus/ferry marathon from Bergen feels intimidating. So this has me thinking we'd want to instead fly from Copenhagen into Oslo, do the train into Flam and then spend 2 full days exploring the Fjords (do the cruise part of the NiN the following day and just in general break up the experience across a few days) with a home base in Aurland. We'd then drive back to Oslo so we have flexibility in stopping at other destinations on the way to Oslo.
My main questions:
1. will we regret skipping Bergen? (to give you context, we really don't like the idea of being around a ton of tourist in a very amusement park-feeling environment and Bergen (and Flam) seem to have the vibe)
2. does anyone have suggestions for our itinerary/home base plans that might make more sense to maximize our time there?
Thanks in advance!