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![Kyrping at the turn of the 19th century](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_190.1.jpg?itok=mrZ32D0n)
Kyrping
The trading post down by the fjord at Kyrping does not belong to the oldest group of trading posts from the 1600s and 1700s. It was only after the liberalisation of the trading legislation that trade was established here.
![Skånevik](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_189-5.jpg?itok=AnQc4WEU)
Skånevik- the trading post
There are only two buildings left of the old trading and guesthouse settlement in Skånevik. They are in the centre, close to the main road passing through the settlement. The other buildings that belonged to the place, the lodging house (“Holteriet”), the bakery, the courthouse, the boathouse and the sea house with the store, were pulled down in the last century.
![Boat engines, Norwegian Engine Museum in Skånevik](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_189_motormuseum_1_150.jpg?itok=CDwNdWQJ)
![Odda around the turn of the former century, with the new Hotel Hardanger](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_398-2.jpg?itok=OKXQDlUB)
Odda- The tourist town
The pioneering tourists in the 1830s-40s brought a momentum in the tourist traffic to the fjord and mountain country Norway. At the time Odda was a hidden Shangri-La at the bottom of Sørfjorden; the farm and the church on the green headland at the fjord. But when the steamship traffic opened the fjord landscape for tourism, in a few years Odda parish in Søndre Bergenhus County became the focal point for travellers in West Norway.
![Tyssedal power station](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_397-1_obs.jpg?itok=jm_PI6LQ)
Tyssedal
Today Tyssedal appears like a classical industrial community, a picture of modern Norway from the turn of the former century until today. A/S Tyssefaldene was established in 1906, and on 1 May 1908 Tyssedal power station was put into operation. The work on the first stage of the facility was completed in a short time, with a work force of 500 men. They built water tunnels, regulation reservoirs, power station, penstocks, harbour, cableways, office buildings, houses and 6 km of power lines in the wild mountains above Odda to provide the new melting plant with power.
![Ferstad, Os](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_235-2-2.jpg?itok=C804au8t)
Ferstad
Ferstad is well worth a visit. The farm lies on a little hillock south of Lekven: a beautiful official residence from the 1700s.
![The trading post Kvalesund in Os, around 1900](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_234-2.jpg?itok=-lYQR4ZE)
![Os rectory](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_236xxx.jpg?itok=hO_YXv5o)