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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.
![Burial mounds at Hæreid](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/haegreid.jpg?itok=LEb0sJkP)
Hæreid- archaeology
The biggest prehistoric burial site in Hordaland is situated at Hæreid. On top of the terrace expanse, inside the fine birch garden, is where they lie, the mounds and stone piles, on their own or in clusters, large and small, round and elongated – at least 350 in all.
![Halnelægeret.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_409-2.jpg?itok=hEx5mouW)
Halne
At Halnefjorden, a few hundred metres east of Halne mountain lodge, lie the remains of two stone sheds – Halnelægeret. Some generations ago the cattle drovers stopped here in the summer; they were the cowboys of their time. But Halnelægeret already had a long history before the cattle drovers came.
![Lime forest at Joberget](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/gra_22.jpg?itok=pd1PXGzQ)
Joberget
Flowering lime is one of nature's blessings: The nectar gives clear honey. The flower is used as folk medicine. From the inner bark of the lime tree one can make strong rope. Elderly folk can still tell how they got a weather report from the lime tree. If it smelled strong, it was probably going to rain. Lime often grows together with elm, ash and other tree species of the deciduous forest. Pure lime forests are rarer. Granvin has Hordaland's biggest lime forests.
![Finds from the woman’s grave at Trå.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_364-4.jpg?itok=poBlgKBf)
![From Lussand toward Håfjell.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/gra_23.jpg?itok=JA0Ck0TM)
Uranes
One of the most magnificent deciduous forests in Hordaland grows along the border with Kvam. The rich growth comes from the phyllite and mica schist bedrock, together with a good climate. Along the fjord the summer is warm but not too dry, and in winter it is not too cold for plants that do not tolerate the frost.
![Hallstatt sword](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_360-2x.jpg?itok=4HquQz9B)
![On the trail toward Kyrkjedøri, a half hour walk from Finse station, we find these small ridges](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/ulvik_12.jpg?itok=gpoawGzE)
Trail toward Kyrkjedøri
Roughly 550 million years ago, what is now Finse lay at the bottom of the sea - the remains of mud and clay that were deposited in this sea have ended up on the roofs of Norway. Also the thrust sheet from the continental collision has found its way to Finse, after a several hundred kilometre-long, trek through the mountains, that took several tens of millions of years to complete.
![The boatshed at Hamn](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_378-4.jpg?itok=rEJyd_9S)
![Rockslide at Mundheim in the spring of 1997](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvam_3.jpg?itok=M0w_nyFl)
Mundheim
At Mundheim there is a dangerous stretch of the highway. The mountainside has given way several times in this area. Typically, it happens in the spring, when the frost has loosened its grip.