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The Halsnøy Boat

19.06.2018 - 16:25

Burial mounds from the Bronze Age at Skarvaberget, Sydnes

Sydnes

19.05.2018 - 20:59

Kalandsvika Bay in the eastern part of Kalandsvatnet

Kalandsvika

12.06.2018 - 19:32

There is little to say about the opportunity for surveying from the bird observation tower in Kalandsvika: 155 different bird species have been sighted in the Kalands water shed. Take your binoculars and visit the tower in late spring - early summer or during the winter half of the year. If you are lucky, you might get to see a rare bird species.

Reppadalen (Svein Nord)

Reppadalen

31.03.2018 - 19:33

The unusual bog landscape, with enormous peat deposits surrounded by steep mountainsides, makes Reppadalen in Arna an exciting, but little visited tour destination for most of Bergen's inhabitants. Those who live in Arna, however, know to make the most of its beautiful natural splendour.

Årstad in the 1890s

Årstad

12.06.2018 - 17:18

Alrekstad (later Årstad) is the birthplace of Bergen. The estate was an estate for Harald Hårfagre and several of his descendants: Eirik Blodøks, Håkon den gode og Olav Tryggvason. These first kings moved with their courts and guardsmen from estate to estate. From these estates the king ruled the country.

Blanks for bowls and ladles

Eidsbøen

13.03.2018 - 20:58

Where the school and the sports facility lie at Eidsbøen there was previously a bog surrounded by small hillocks. More than 1000 years ago this was a holy place, where the dead were buried.

Cross-leaved heath (Akvarell: Miranda Bødtker)

Steinevik

31.03.2018 - 19:37

Drageidkanalen, Fusa

Drageid canal

20.03.2018 - 18:05

The trading store at Holsund is now in the Horda Museum.

Holsund

16.06.2018 - 14:05

Vinnesleira

Vinnesleira

06.12.2018 - 11:03

Bays that are shallow far out into the sea, with fine sand and clay, are rare in Hordaland. Where they are found, the reason is usually that the edge of the glacier made smaller advances or stopovers when it calved back at the end of the last Ice Age. This is what happened at Vinnesleira.

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