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![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 old vicarage at Oppheim.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_353xxx.jpg?itok=LIg8p6XP)
Oppheim
In the slope above Oppheim church lies the old vicarage at OPPHEIM. If you stroll up the road from the church you will arrive in a farmyard marked by traces of building style and living traditions from the Middle Ages.
![Coat of arms, Orning](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_209-1.jpg?itok=48LepR7r)
![Os rectory](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_236xxx.jpg?itok=hO_YXv5o)
![Pøylo](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/nvh_310_poylo_150.jpg?itok=qaWbRyvK)
![Romarheimsdalen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/lindas_33.jpg?itok=VKAH_TBc)
![D/S «Seimstrand» at bay in Salhus around 1906](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_264-1.jpg?itok=9ymiBDPa)
Salhus
Salhus has been a connecting point for sea travellers far back in time. The name probably derives from the Old Norse word sáluhús, “house for travellers”. The name may indicate that this was a place for an inn even in the Middle Ages. The place is eminently situated in the route to and from Bergen. For travellers coming by boat from Sogn and Nordhordland, Salhus is the last stop before Bergen. Travellers from the communities in Voss also came this way earlier when they were going to Bergen
![Sandven hotel](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_371-1.jpg?itok=3gVdslLW)
![From the mountainous rocks just below Sandvikshytte cabin on Sandviksfjellet.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/304/sandviksfjellet_berg_42_0.png?itok=ojW0mG7e)
Sandviksfjellet
On Sandviksfjellet there are old boulders that have been made into mountains. The stones have been stretched out or squeezed together between huge slabs of rock, during slow, but powerfulprocesses of transport. This conglomerate shows, in quite a special way, the enormous powers that were active during the collision between Norway and Greenland over 400 million years ago.
![Siggjo from the south. (Svein Nord)](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/bo_52.jpg?itok=ZLhD-gho)
Siggjo
Siggjo is a cone-shaped, volcano-like mountaintop in the part of Hordaland where one finds the best preserved volcanic rocks. The rock types originate from one or several volcanoes that spewed out glowing lava and ash. But, the shape of the mountain, as it appears today, formed later and by completely different forces.