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Day 3 was another long trek, but only about 1/3 of it was on a trail and the rest was on a winding road.  It was a much easier walk than the previous day and a similar distance (25 km) but it rained on us nearly the entire time.  We were so cold and wet that we stopped at the first B&B we saw in the town we were heading to, Lysebotn, and fortunately they had a free room.  What an amazing find!  This place was nestled into the valley at the end of the fjord and the B&B was an old farmhouse that had been in their family for generations.  They were even bottle feeding a baby deer, Gustav, who had been abandoned.  He was so sweet—he’d run up to you as soon as you walked out the door when he was hungry and step all over you with his tiny hooves!  After we’d settled in and warmed up, the owner kindly drove us into the town to get some dinner and we almost immediately bumped into two of the girls from the lodge the first night.  All five of the people we’d met there had taken the ferry along the fjord (that we’d just walked along) to Lysebotn and they were curious to see if we’d made it.  It was so cool to run into these new friends and we all agreed to meet up the next morning for the hike out to Kjeragbolten.