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![Gildrehola](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/awfawf.jpg?itok=2AAfbxlk)
![The Ancient Ash Tree](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvi_36.jpg?itok=o_7Mt5TO)
![Maters Fjord with Holmedalsberget in the background.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvi_37.jpg?itok=mDDqfdul)
Holmedalsberget
If you want to be on your own for a long day in a magnificent deciduous forest in demanding terrain, then HOLMESDALSBERGET is the right place. This is a big forested area by Matres Fjord in the southwestly part of Kinnherad. Here, we find one of the largest deciduous forests in Hordaland. The forest stretches over several kilometres.
![Skorpo (Svein Nord)](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvi_49.jpg?itok=i4VQIqsW)
Skorpo
Skorpo - Polished by glaciers and meltwater
![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.
![At lake Gaupåsvatnet.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/nvh_334_gaupas_koronitt_150.jpg?itok=Wq7ffNPu)
![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.
![Sculptures in the bedrock](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/jondal_23.jpg?itok=fS00QTt-)
![Early purple orchid](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/auste_4.jpg?itok=gAUXhV5O)