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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.
![Indre Vikane](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_381-3.jpg?itok=dTRacY7X)
![The boathouses at Svåsand.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_383-2.jpg?itok=KK04JZW2)
Svåsand
Down by the fjord at Svåsand, close to the main highway, there is a long row of boathouses, one of the well-preserved, older boathouse locations along the Hardanger fjord. It is the farms at Svåsand that have their boathouses here, four main farms with origins far back in time.
![Skjervet toward the east. Jørdre Farm up to the left.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/gra_32.jpg?itok=HGK8HMBs)
Skjervet- river theft
At the end of the last ice age the ice flowed out of Hardanger fjord in such a fury that it forced the meltwater from Voss to run back uphill toward Granvin. The glacier from Raundalen down the windy valley along the Vosso to Bolstadøyri went too slow to make the turn.
![Storegraven and Granvin church](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_365-4.jpg?itok=t9act0tk)
Storegraven
The first mention of Granvin church in written sources is in 1306, but the church location must be far older than this. The farm Storegraven is centrally situated at Granvinsvatnet, by the important traffic artery between Hardanger and Voss, where the road takes off to Ulvik.
![Folkedal](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_367-4.jpg?itok=88ZF6fTB)
Øvre Folkedal
Folkedal, which today is like a small “detour” from the main highway, was in the Middle Ages centrally situated in one of the most important roads between Hardanger and Voss. This is the road that Olav Haraldsson travelled in 1023, when he came from the royal farm at Avaldsnes for a meeting with the Voss inhabitants about the new belief. The road passes across the mountain pasture Krossaset and down Bordalen to Vangen.