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![Hereiane. Jonahornet in the background.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/jondal_19.jpg?itok=zuuwq9tu)
Hereiane
At Hereiane on warm summer days one you can walk barefoot up the hill from the fjord all the way up to 400 metres elevation. The naked, furrowed bedrock often causes travellers who see it from the north side of the fjord to wonder. Why does it look like this, and why is there so little that grows here? It is a long way to the heavy metal industry in Ålvik and Odda, and there hasn’t been a forest fire in modern times.
![Gjønavatnet and Kikedalen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/nvh_320_kikedalen_150.jpg?itok=mWd_BFbm)
![Vøringsfossen waterfall and the Upper Måbødalen Valley, as seen from the viewpoint at Hotel Fossli.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/eid_27.jpg?itok=N8nsqBs2)
Måbødalen- geology
The old pack road had 1500 steps, where cars today gas through the mountain. The time of this hard work is over, and of getting used to the steep terrain, as well; only the view from the top is much the same as before. Vøringsfossen in summer is one of Western Norway’s biggest natural wonders. It marks the transition between the older, open part of the Sysendalen valley and the younger, narrow and winding valley of Måbødalen.
![Osa and the Osa fjord](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_360xxx.jpg?itok=YQCQAW0y)
Osa
At the bottom of the Osa fjord there is a cultural landscape marked by great contrasts; the wide terraces and the river delta at the fjord contrast with the steep hillsides in the background, where Norddalen leads up to the mountain. There are two farms here. Osa and Sævartveit – the farm at the river mouth and the hollow by the sea.
![Glacial river plain at Lake Klevavatnet.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/ulvik_32.jpg?itok=duW0R_ur)
Rallarvegen
They rest there, all as one, the silent witnesses of Western Norway's saga of creation: Precambrian basement, phyllite and thrust sheet. In the end came the glaciers and sculptured the vast landscape. Along the ground or on the horizon, from bicycle or on foot - the landscape tells its story - and it tells it clearer on Rallarvegen than many other places.
![Fossen cliff](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/sam_11.jpg?itok=VQQxhF23)
Fossen Bratte
The steep drop by Fossen cliff has been the biggest challenge for those who wished to make a road over Kvamskogen through the years. Leave the car by the monument on the old road and take a walk down to the bend by the waterfall that Bergen-folk call "The bridal veil". Why is there a waterfall just here?
![The farms on Toska lie on moraine soils from the Herdla moraine.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/radoy_21.jpg?itok=Zzbp7oRx)
Toska
The peat bogs on Toska have been mined for peat since 1946, when the island got electricity. In this treeless coastal landscape, peat was the most important source of energy, and this took quite a toll on the bogs.
![Langfoss (Alf Adriansen)](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/etne_32.jpg?itok=bIoehHDD)
![Botnagrenda](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_369-_2.jpg?itok=9FLr126Z)
Botnen
Fyksesundet and Botnagrenda present a fine experience of the landscape and cultural history; a geographically isolated local settlement with extensive cultural contact with the outside world.
![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.