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Tour 17. Kvinnherad -  the tour

The landscape in Kvinnherad is actually one part of Sunnhordland and one part of Hardanger. The southern half of the community features the typical Sunnhordland landscape with lush pine forest, numerous islands, skerries and idyllic inlets and sounds. In the north you find higher mountains with typical U-shaped valleys formed by the ice, narrow fjords, waterfalls, steep mountainsides and actice glaciers.

 

Kvinnherad Kommune: Kvinnherad municipality - is located in Sunnhordland at the mouth of the Hardanger Fjord. The fjord actually bisects the municipality with a smaller part to the west with the hamlets of Ølve and Hatlestrand, and the larger peninsula with the Folgefonna glacier to the east.

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

Tour 17. Kvinnherad - the walks

17A: Varaldsøy

Varaldsøy– the pearl of the Hardanger Fjord – lies at the divide between the coastal climate with mild winters and the interior with its warm summers. The soil is rich in lime, and this, together with the favourable climate provides ideal conditions for wealth of interesting and varied vegetation and flora found here. You can get to Varaldsøy by ferry from Gjermundshamn of Løfallstrand.

Terrain: Rural roads, forest paths and footpaths. Steep climb at the start, levelling out to rolling landscape.

Time: 2 – 2.5 hours.

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

17D: Rosendal

Beautiful Rosendal with the Baroniet Rosendal, the only of its kind i Norway, and one of Western Norway`s most popular tourist attractions. The walk takes you around Hattebergfossen (waterfall) in the cultural landscape near Baroniet Rosendal, a National and European Heritage Monument. This estate was a Barony in 1678, and was from 1749 the family residence of the Rosenkrantz

Terrain: Gravel roads and footpaths.

Time: Approx. 1 hour.