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Vikbukta
Vikbukta is a small, tranquil bay on the Sunnmøre coast of western Norway, tucked beside the hamlet of Skåla (6456) in Stranda municipality, Møre og Romsdal. The name itself is a quiet double meaning — "vik" and "bukt" both point to an inlet — and what sits inside this one is a modest working harbour rather than a showpiece resort. A local boat association founded it to build and run a small-boat marina, so the cove reads as a place for fishing boats, pleasure craft and the people who keep them, framed by steep fjord-country hillsides. The real draw is where the bay sits: deep in Fjord Norway, within the Storfjord–Sunnylvsfjord–Geirangerfjord heartland of Stranda, one of the most celebrated fjord landscapes in the world. The Geirangerfjord just to the south is a UNESCO World Heritage site, and the coast road that threads past Skåla is part of the classic fjord-driving country between Hellesylt, Stranda and the big-name viewpoints. Vikbukta is best treated as a calm, authentic little stopping point in the middle of that scenery — a place to look across still water at the mountains before moving on to the region's marquee sights.