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![The cairn at Nybunut](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/artikkel/williamh/kvh-15-1.jpg?itok=wXaNsy2j)
Hardangervidda – Crossing the Uplands
Slepa, the ancient “drove roads” across the plateau, date back to prehistoric times. Through the centuries cattle have been driven to the markets in the east; the people of Hardanger went on their trading journeys with tallow and salt to the mining town and silver mines of Kongsberg, and soldiers and other travellers also used these roads.
![Farmers from the fjords should not travel unshaven on the train.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/artikkel/admin/kvh-81-1s.jpg?itok=Tig7rMCx)
Farmers from the Fjords
Eitt av dei store samferdsleprosjekta på Vestlandet mot slutten av 1800-talet var opninga av Nesttun-Osbanen i 1894 – ei oppbløming av lokalhandel, turisttrafikk og «landliggere».
![A deciduous forest slop with Bear’s garlic.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/artikkel/williamh/kvh_18-3_0.jpg?itok=Vf08Yb6P)
From Dense Forest to Open Heathlands
The outer frame - the coast, the fjord and the mountains - are an inheritance from the country's geological history. But what, more than anything else, gives the scene colour and excitement is the plant life.
![Fjordabåtane går ut frå Vågen laurdag ettermiddag](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/artikkel/admin/kvh_76-1_farge.jpg?itok=WR3VYsMc)
![The road through Husedalen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/artikkel/williamh/kvh_84-s.jpg?itok=LcyJn4pV)
From “Spearway” to National Highway
![Gjuvsland (Svein Nord)](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/navn.jpg?itok=npdQFont)
![The Ancient Ash Tree](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvi_36.jpg?itok=o_7Mt5TO)
![The Æneselva river winds and meanders down through Ænesdalen valley.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvi_47.jpg?itok=HCVLeokZ)
Ænesdalen
Even far down in the denst forest in Ænesdalen valley the precipitous and mighty Gygrastolen watches over you. Ænesdalen is not the easiest route in to Folgefonna, since it does not have good roads. But, the nature is magnificent. And if you first are on a trip through this unique valley, you will see how the vegetation here, as in many other valleys in western Norway, changes with altitude and light conditions.
![Blood-red geranium](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvi_24.jpg?itok=b63Z_duB)
![Tippetue in the 1950s.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/berg_24.jpg?itok=4U20kVnQ)