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![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.
![Sandven hotel](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_371-1.jpg?itok=3gVdslLW)
![Vikøy](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_372-2.jpg?itok=TVeGC901)
![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)
![Buardalen and Buarbreen before 1880.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/odda_27.jpg?itok=6wyvqy1Z)
Buardalen Valley
Buarbreen glacier was one of the first destinations during the period of increasing tourism in Odda in the 1800s. Foreigners came by the thousands, mostly Englishmen and Germans, to the magnificent landscape in front of the glacier. Back at the hotel in Odda they could enjoy drinks containing ice from the glacier.
![Odda around the turn of the former century, with the new Hotel Hardanger](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_398-2.jpg?itok=OKXQDlUB)
Odda- The tourist town
The pioneering tourists in the 1830s-40s brought a momentum in the tourist traffic to the fjord and mountain country Norway. At the time Odda was a hidden Shangri-La at the bottom of Sørfjorden; the farm and the church on the green headland at the fjord. But when the steamship traffic opened the fjord landscape for tourism, in a few years Odda parish in Søndre Bergenhus County became the focal point for travellers in West Norway.
![The guesthouse settlement at Utne around 1900.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_387-2.jpg?itok=FdeIFyRP)
Utne
When sergeant Peder Larsen Børsem from Strandebarm was “demobilised” in 1721, following the large Nordic War, he married the Bergen lady Elisabeth Schrøder and settled as innkeeper at Utne with a letter of privilege from the county governor dated 29 October 1722.
![Bronze keys and remains of a wooden stick from Døso.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_234-1_b.jpg?itok=EoET9UiR)
![Pøylo](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/nvh_310_poylo_150.jpg?itok=qaWbRyvK)
![Landskapsdraget sørover langs Krokavatnet og Bjørndalsvida i Etnefjella følgjer Etneforkastinga](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/304/krokavatnetjpg.jpg?itok=NDr7ckOt)
Krokavatnet
On Sunday the 29th of January, 1989, at 17:38 o'clock, Etna shook. The earthquake, with its epicentre ca. 9 kilometres south of Etne centre, had a strength of 4.2 on the Richters scale. This could be felt over large parts of West Land, especially in the areas around Åkra, Etne, Hardanger Fjord and Sauda Fjord. The earthquake was the largest that has ever been measured in Hordaland.