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![Bergesfjellet](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/bo_31.jpg?itok=i9o6PSWe)
![Glacier fall at Bondhusbreen.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvi_41.jpg?itok=R53rfaSZ)
Bondhusdalen
The Bondhus area in Maruanger has been a magnet for tourists ever since the stream of tourists to Norway's west coast began in the middle of the 1800s. The magnificent landscape with the "ice trail" up to Bondhusvatnet Lake, the ice falls from Bondhusbreen glacier and Keisarstigen trail up to Folgefonna are still popular tourist attractions.
![Espevik](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/tysnes_15.jpg?itok=xW8eH-Lu)
Espevik
220 million years ago, glowing hot molten rock masses intruded into fractures in the earth's crust in the outer parts of Hordaland. Some of these are believed to have reached the surface and formed lava flows, which since have been eroded away by wind and weather. But, most of these flows solidified into diabase sills before they got to the surface.
![Finnås and Finnåsvika](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/bo_10.jpg?itok=NqIpTrFN)
Finnås
At Flintaneset by Finnåsvika, in the centre of the municipality, we find the most beautiful and best preserved igneous rocks in western Norway. We must go to Hawaii or Island to find as fine structures as at Bømlo.
![The rectory at Finnes](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_203_finnas_1_150.jpg?itok=MjLf1y2s)
![Section from a sea map from the Danish Sea Map Archive from 1798, drawn by Poul Løvernørn.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/fi_18.jpg?itok=PD2tmRI1)
Fitjarøyane
If we study the group of islands south of Selbjørns Fjord from the air or on a sea map, we will notice that many of the islands are elongated and lie systematically in rows. The islands are divided by long sounds, for example Trollosen, Nuleia and Hjelmosen, which are oriented in a south-southeast to north-northwesterly direction.
![Gildrehola](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/awfawf.jpg?itok=2AAfbxlk)
![The trading post Godøysund at the end of the 1880s.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_223-1.jpg?itok=JgA7duW3)
Godøysund
The old hostelry centres were strategically placed with good harbours and anchoring conditions where people travelled. GODØYSUND, or Gøysundet, as it was called, was in the middle of Tysnes Parish, with easy access from the sea, also for the local population. Gøysundet is amongst the oldest hostelries in Sunnhordland.
![The Gramshaug rock paintings.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh175.jpg?itok=hgFlf3um)
![Rock inscriptions at Helgaberget.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh-etne-3_img_1.jpg?itok=HCOBcyqm)
Helgaberget
Helgaberget – the holy hill – is a little rocky crag which thrusts itself a few metres above the terraced surface of Støle. The surface of the rock is strewn with figures inscribed in the rock and it was, as far as one can judge, a cult centre in the Bronze Ages. The name could indicate that the tradition of holiness can have lasted for almost 3,000 years.