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![Gildrehola](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/awfawf.jpg?itok=2AAfbxlk)
![Elias Fiigenschoug’s painting of Halsnøy monastery , 1656](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_192-1.jpg?itok=9VO9I-NR)
Halsnøy Monastery
Halsnøy Monastery is situated in the midst of the lush fjord country in Sunnhordland, on one of the old spits, or “necks”, that has given name to the island. Gently sloping fields lead down to the sea on both sides, in the south towards the Kloster Fjord, to the north towards the sheltered Klostervågen.
![From Ingahogg.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvinnherad.jpg?itok=dmrfeaRp)
Ingahogg
At nearly 1000 metres over sea level, on the north side of INGAHOGG mountain, the remains of a soapstone quarry have been discovered. It is said, according to the Sagas, that Inga collected the big soapstone that lies in front of the Åkra Church from here.
![Kvinnherad Church](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_198_x.jpg?itok=yh2bEzjf)
Kvinnherad Church
The stately Kvinnherad Church with its characteristic profile set out against the mighty Malmangernuten in the background, gives you a rare feeling of being present in a historic landscape as you come around Nes and face the well-kept houses at the Skåla farm. The church at Skåla is one of four “fjordungskirker” (one of four main district churches) and this farm was the centre of this coastal administration district.
![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
![Sculptures in the bedrock](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/jondal_23.jpg?itok=fS00QTt-)
![Indre Vikane](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_381-3.jpg?itok=dTRacY7X)
![Norwegian Sagebrush](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/jondal_3.jpg?itok=fj-tqk5a)
Jonstein
When high school student Arne Handegard collected plants for a herbarium in 1962, he didn’t know what kind of rarity he had pressed into his notebook. 30 years later he attended a botanical lecture, where a picture was shown of a plant he recognized: “Norwegian Sagebrush, which in Norway is only found in a large area of Dovre and in Trollheimen, and in a little area in Ry county”. Arne Handegard raised his hand: “That plant grows on Mt. Jonstein in Jondal”.
![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.
![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.