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![The rock carvings at Bakko.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_384-23.jpg?itok=SkUv1D2l)
Bakko
Everyone knows the famous painting by Tidemand & Gude “Brudeferden i Hardanger” (The Wedding Party in Hardanger) one of the great icons in the National Gallery. Some have, in a humorous lack of respect for this masterpiece linked the concept of “bride’s passage” to another pictorial presentation in Hardanger. This is found on the farm Bakko in Herand, carved in the rock by an unknown artist around 3,000 years ago.
![Bjørsvik](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/lindas_11_1.jpg?itok=vyYie0Yy)
Bjørsvik
The industrial settlement Bjørsvik
![Glacier fall at Bondhusbreen.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvi_41.jpg?itok=R53rfaSZ)
Bondhusdalen
The Bondhus area in Maruanger has been a magnet for tourists ever since the stream of tourists to Norway's west coast began in the middle of the 1800s. The magnificent landscape with the "ice trail" up to Bondhusvatnet Lake, the ice falls from Bondhusbreen glacier and Keisarstigen trail up to Folgefonna are still popular tourist attractions.
![Fossil scree](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/ulvik_10.jpg?itok=4OVfBQkN)
![Buardalen and Buarbreen before 1880.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/odda_27.jpg?itok=6wyvqy1Z)
Buardalen Valley
Buarbreen glacier was one of the first destinations during the period of increasing tourism in Odda in the 1800s. Foreigners came by the thousands, mostly Englishmen and Germans, to the magnificent landscape in front of the glacier. Back at the hotel in Odda they could enjoy drinks containing ice from the glacier.
![Finnås and Finnåsvika](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/bo_10.jpg?itok=NqIpTrFN)
Finnås
At Flintaneset by Finnåsvika, in the centre of the municipality, we find the most beautiful and best preserved igneous rocks in western Norway. We must go to Hawaii or Island to find as fine structures as at Bømlo.
![Fjøsanger](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/berg_49.jpg?itok=x0vBKTNz)
Fjøsanger
Fjøsanger is known among ice age researchers from around the world. Under an excavation in 1975-77, geologists from the University of Bergen found layers from the last interglacial, ca. 115 000 to 130 000 years old.
![The hotel in 1928.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_346-2.jpg?itok=OLyMYIaD)
![Drawing of runic letters engraved in a carving knife from Fløksand.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/linalaukrf.gif?itok=9G3iwJhY)
![Typical landscape in Geitaknottane Nature Preserve](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvam_38.jpg?itok=nBAhBLqi)
Geitaknottane
Many travellers between Mundheim and Gjermundshamn are captivated by the expansive view toward Øynefjord, Varaldsøy and Folgefonna. The barren pine forest on the slopes on the upper-side of the road is not seen by many. Who would think that this area is home to rare species of plants and animals, creatures who have made their homes here for thousands of years?