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![Bolstadøyri around the turn of the former century.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_341-1.jpg?itok=IjtZb6dg)
Bolstad
The village at Bolstadøyri acquired its structure around the middle of the 1800s, but from the old days there has been a meeting place here; court location and trading post. The guesthouse place stems from the second half of the 17th century, and in the previous century Bolstadøyri was one of the largest rural trading posts in Nordhordland.
![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.
![The hotel in 1928.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_346-2.jpg?itok=OLyMYIaD)
![Kjelstraumen today](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_305_kjelstraumen_150.jpg?itok=5jwimkOE)
Kjelstraumen
If you take the sea route north you have several options. The various routes have been dealt with in history, and through the Middle Ages the traffic increased as well as the trading with Nordland in fish and herring, feather and down. One of the central routes passes through Kjelstraumen, in the sound between Ulvøy and Bakkøy. This has been a place for a guesthouse since 1610, with Royal Letter of Privilege, part of the large network of trading post and guesthouse locations along the coast.
![The mill that belonged to Johan Steinegger in Kvalvågen in Lindås, an attempt to exploit the difference in tides](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/austr_5.jpg?itok=-8B2oviO)
![The Hopland mills around 1940.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_304-3.jpg?itok=ZvabRlGu)
![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.
![Foglefonna and Sandvikedalen with Hardangerjøkulen in the distance.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/etne_40.jpg?itok=QkNKWy9j)
Mosnes
The permanently-protected Mosneselva River, with its meltwater from Folgefonna, runs out into Åkra Fjord by the roadless and uninhabited Mosnes. Those who once lived here were forced to surrender to the ravages of Nature. In the autumn of 1962 there was a flood so great that the people were driven from their farms.
![Eitrheimsneset with](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/odda_29.jpg?itok=LAbaHk81)
Odda- The industrial town
In 1908 the new power station in Tyssedal was completed. A/S Tyssefaldene provided power for the carbide and cyanide factory that was built in Odda. This signalled a new era.
![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.