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![Evanger sentrum før brannen i 1923](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_342-1.jpg?itok=rFftSVHX)
Evanger
Evanger (from Old Norse ålvangr, “vang”, “voll” (field) where the horses may graze) is the place where the river from Vangsvatnet, the Voss watercourse, runs out into Evangervatnet. From here Teigdalen valley runs to the north, towards Eksingedalen, and from here there is a short distance to Bergsdalen in the south.
![The hotel in 1928.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_346-2.jpg?itok=OLyMYIaD)
![Dagestad museum, Voss](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_350-2x.jpg?itok=BcMA39_p)
![Slopes above the Kårdal boarding house](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/voss_22.jpg?itok=Fvt_DoMF)
![The second Stalheim Hotel](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_354-1.jpg?itok=naPY93fI)
Stalheim
Stalheim is situated between Stalheimsfossen and Sivlefossen, in a community with the farms Sivle and Brekke. The most likely explanation of the name is “the farm by Stadall”, from “standa” (stand), probably with background in the steep Stalheimskleivi. The farm has for a long time been divided into several units. At Stalheim there has been a transport exchange from the Middle Ages and the farm has been a postal farm since 1647.
![Sandven hotel](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_371-1.jpg?itok=3gVdslLW)
![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.
![From Helland toward the end of the valley with the Skrikjo waterfall.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/ull_11.jpg?itok=aQL9hvnj)