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![The Ancient Ash Tree](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvi_36.jpg?itok=o_7Mt5TO)
![Maters Fjord with Holmedalsberget in the background.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvi_37.jpg?itok=mDDqfdul)
Holmedalsberget
If you want to be on your own for a long day in a magnificent deciduous forest in demanding terrain, then HOLMESDALSBERGET is the right place. This is a big forested area by Matres Fjord in the southwestly part of Kinnherad. Here, we find one of the largest deciduous forests in Hordaland. The forest stretches over several kilometres.
![Garnes station](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_265-3_obs.jpg?itok=A2hKkhnl)
![«Den Trondhjemske postvei»](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_264-2.jpg?itok=UKh3rA50)
![Stend station in 1935](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_266-2.jpg?itok=A5MyGZka)
![Early purple orchid](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/auste_4.jpg?itok=gAUXhV5O)
![Hopslia](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/fusa_2.jpg?itok=IReFV51c)
Hopslia
Some of the giant trees in Hopslia north of Holme Fjord are as much as thirty metres high. Elm and ash are the most common, basswood somewhat rarer. Relatively soft bedrock, good growing conditions and enough light, help them to thrive just here.
![Vegane gjennom den tronge og bratte Måbødalen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_407-1.jpg?itok=jN0RFHBc)
![Lime forest at Joberget](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/gra_22.jpg?itok=pd1PXGzQ)
Joberget
Flowering lime is one of nature's blessings: The nectar gives clear honey. The flower is used as folk medicine. From the inner bark of the lime tree one can make strong rope. Elderly folk can still tell how they got a weather report from the lime tree. If it smelled strong, it was probably going to rain. Lime often grows together with elm, ash and other tree species of the deciduous forest. Pure lime forests are rarer. Granvin has Hordaland's biggest lime forests.
![Workers](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_369-3.jpg?itok=8KobiG8l)
Lussand-roadwork
The road along the north side of the Hardanger fjord - between Øystese and Eide in Granvin – was literally built “by hand”. The construction work started in February 1933, and on 9 October 1937 Crown Price Olav opened the stretch of road between Øystese and Ålvik at Fyksesund bridge.