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![Elias Fiigenschoug’s painting of Halsnøy monastery , 1656](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_192-1.jpg?itok=9VO9I-NR)
Halsnøy Monastery
Halsnøy Monastery is situated in the midst of the lush fjord country in Sunnhordland, on one of the old spits, or “necks”, that has given name to the island. Gently sloping fields lead down to the sea on both sides, in the south towards the Kloster Fjord, to the north towards the sheltered Klostervågen.
![The circular buckle from Hatteberg, Kvinnherad](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_198-2_0.jpg?itok=Nx0pe53v)
![Main mine shaft in Valaheigruva mine.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvi_32.jpg?itok=ybqiInvs)
Varaldsøy- mining
There is still a lot of ore in the abandoned mines on Varaldsøy Island. If today's prices and availability of ore continue, it is doubtful whether the mines will resume operation. But, the pyrite is there, if the market should return. On Varaldsøy Island one finds at least nine mines and prospect pits, that for the most part date back to the latter part of the 1800s.
![Geithidleren, Årsand, Kvinnherad](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_200-1.jpg?itok=oTokwPdx)
Årsand
Below a south facing, steep rock at Årsand, there is one of the strangest ancient relics in the whole of Hordaland. The jutting rock wall forms a shallow flagstone – Geithilderen. Parts of the rock wall are covered by a light lime crust and on the crust figures have been painted in golden and rusty red colours.
![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.
![At lake Gaupåsvatnet.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/nvh_334_gaupas_koronitt_150.jpg?itok=Wq7ffNPu)
![Kalandsvika Bay in the eastern part of Kalandsvatnet](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/berg_33.jpg?itok=1Z0imcmo)
Kalandsvika
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)](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/berg_1.jpg?itok=_72uaNnN)
Reppadalen
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.
![Rope making](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh-260-verftet.jpg?itok=ViAYY7jN)
Sandviken
Close to the tunnel opening at Amalie Skrams vei in Ssandviken, there is a cultural monument of European dimensions; a rope making works that produced rope and fishing tackle for West and North Norway.