About Memurubu
Memurubu is magnificently situated at the mouth of the river Muru, in the middle of Gjende, and has for centuries been a popular starting location for both humans and animals.
Today, the old summer dwellings house a modern mountain lodge that is comfortable with local food and sustainable energy from its own hydro station.
Contact: +47 460 16 100 or post@memurubu.no
How to get here
Many people choose to take the Gjende ferry, but you can also walk here on foot. Either from Gjendeosen/Gjendesheim or via the mountain from Gjendebu or Glitterheim. Memurubu is a lovely start or end to many of the hikes in Jotunheimen. The Gjende ferry has several departures a day. See www.gjende.no for more details and search function.
By bus
Mountain route to Gjendesheim (Tickets at Entur på nett or app)
Med bil
If you arrive by car, there is a large parking lot at Gjendeosen/Reinsvangen where your car will be safe while you are trekking in the mountains.
A historic mountain place
In 1880, three young Englishmen went on a hunting and fishing trip to East Jotunheimen. Among other things, they camped in Memurubu. Two years later they published a book about their experiences. It was published anonymously in London in 1882, and they called it “Three in Norway – By two of them”.
The book has since gone through several editions in the original language, and we received the first edition in Norwegian as early as 1884. It was translated by H.J. Muller and included the original’s illustrations based on the authors’ sketches. The later Norwegian editions are in Per Thomsen’s more free translation and partly abridged.
“Three in Norway” is an unusual travelogue. The reader is spared lengthy descriptions of landscapes and travel routes. Instead, we get a series of slightly ironic sketches of the country and its people, customs and eating habits.
Many times they write disrespectfully and exaggerate to the point of grotesqueness, but then the intention is also that the reader will understand it as an exaggeration. They give a fair hint about this in the introduction: “Some of the statements that will be found in these pages may strike the reader as being, to say the least of it, improbable. We therefore wish to explain that all the incidents of sport and travel are simple facts, but that here and there is introduced some slight fiction which is too obviously exaggerated to require any comment.”
The book is for sale in bookstores and online stores, and is well worth reading! At Memurubu you can see for yourself where the camp was located and get a feel for how the three adventurers must have felt.
