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![The trading store at Holsund is now in the Horda Museum.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_247-xx.jpg?itok=osh8ymrJ)
![The rock carving ship on Samnøya, Fusa](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/awdawdawd.jpg?itok=c-c6gsY7)
![Sundvor, Fusa](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_242-3.jpg?itok=Q9j0Y-ci)
![Part of the Yddal nature preserve seen from the air.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/fusa_17.jpg?itok=zg9HUkfS)
Yddal
Yddal is one of the biggest and finest pine forest areas in the county. The rich forest resources provided an important foundation for the settlement of Yddal. Up until about the 1950s, there were three farms here. Where the lumberjacks couldn't get to, the trees grew very big and can be over 300 years old.
![Heggjagarden](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_403-1.jpg?itok=Z2pkEkIF)
Heggjagarden
The transport exchange on the farm Vik in Eidfjord was an important part of the communication network in older times. This is where people secured transport by boat out in the fjord, those travelling across the mountain from east and down into Måbødalen. The transport exchange was situated at “Wiige grund”. Today the highway cuts through the farmyard; the main farmhouse from the 1800s lies on the upper side of the road, the large sea-house, with a bakery in former times, lies close to the fjord.
![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.
![Skytjedalen in Eidfjord.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/011.jpg?itok=YAgcsVmd)
![The guesthouse](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_366-1.jpg?itok=GUuS5PEL)
Kongstun
In the Middle Ages the farmers were under obligation to transport state officials. The bishops were entitled to 18 horses when they travelled about on visitations, and the king could requisition free transport.
![Skjervet toward the east. Jørdre Farm up to the left.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/gra_32.jpg?itok=HGK8HMBs)
Skjervet- river theft
At the end of the last ice age the ice flowed out of Hardanger fjord in such a fury that it forced the meltwater from Voss to run back uphill toward Granvin. The glacier from Raundalen down the windy valley along the Vosso to Bolstadøyri went too slow to make the turn.
![Nils Hertzberg watercolour of “Spånheimsklosteret”](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_362-2.jpg?itok=tMjpbmV9)