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![The wheelhouse at Hovdanes, Tysnes](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_224-3.jpg?itok=hDerF4kE)
![The main house at Nedrevåge, Tysnes](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_221_y.jpg?itok=6T-APezc)
Nedrevåge
Vågsbygdo was severely hit by landslides and rock falls in the decades around 1700, in addition, the rivers transported masses of loose sediment, both large stones and gravel. A lot of what slid down from the Vågsliene (slopes at Våg) collected in Neravåge. It was so bad that the damage “never again can be remedied or restored”, it was said in 1670.
![Nils Hertzber’s watercolour from 1829 gives us an impression of the burial site with the menhirs at Årbakkesanden.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_222-1-1.jpg?itok=iSlCbTy_)
Årbakka- The prehistoric site
The prehistoric site at Årbakkasanden with menhirs and burial mounds has been visited, described and illustrated by many learned researchers through the last 350 years. All the same, we still know very little of this unique cultural monument.
![Fykse](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvam_31.jpg?itok=d1pn9Mw8)
![Håbrekke farm](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/bru.jpg?itok=oPLcku2-)
![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.
![Boys fishing from the river at Steinsdalsfossen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvam_42.jpg?itok=gTJySMyc)
Steinsdalsfossen
Øvsthusfossen, or Steinsdalsfossen waterfall, as it is called today, attracts tourists by the thousands, and always has done as long as there have been tourists in Norway, since the early 1800s.
![Tangarås](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_377-2.jpg?itok=GLZcKtJn)
Tangarås
From his loft window on the doctor’s farm at Tangarås the young Hans Ernst Kinck had a view of the fjord and the Mauranger mountains. The fjord settlements in West Norway made a strong impression on the young boy when his family moved from Setesdal, from “the stifling mystique of the ballad”, to Strandebarm in 1876. The new district doctor bought the old captain’s farm at Tangarås, which had for some time been a military head farm after Håbrekke further into the settlement.
![Stoune mounds at Vikingnes](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_378_royser_vikingnes_150.jpg?itok=kMkwxOEo)
![Smokehouse in Vikøy](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_372_z.jpg?itok=BTL-Cz8e)
Vikøy
Through Adolph Tidemand’s detailed close-ups of smokehouses in Kvam, the vicarage in Vikøy, where he lived during his painting trips through Hardanger, has obtained a central position in the Norwegian national romanticism.