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Gjønavatnet and Kikedalen

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Inge Aarseth Peter Emil Kaland
Precipitous cliffs tower over a thousand metres straight up into the air in wild and narrow Kikedalen at the end of Lake Gjønavatnet. Even in mid-summ...

Skogseidvatnet

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
Lake Skogseidvatnet is the most famous fishing lake in Hordaland, with good stocks of both char and trout. There is fishing here throughout the year: ...

Vinnesleira

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth Anders Lundberg Stein Byrkjeland
Bays that are shallow far out into the sea, with fine sand and clay, are rare in Hordaland. Where they are found, the reason is usually that the edge ...

Yddal

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe Stein Byrkjeland
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 ...

Grasdalen

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
MARBLE AND KARST ...

Kvernes

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Bjørn Moe Idar Restad
Håkons Hall, Domkirken Church, Bergen Børs Stock Exchange, Permanenten and other well known buildings in Bergen are decorated with soapstone from Øvre...

Slåttene

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe Idar Restad

Frøland

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Arve Tvede Stein Byrkjeland
Much rain, a steep drop and nearness to Bergen meant that the power-making potential of the Samnanger water system was exploited early. Samnanger was ...

Frølandsvatnet

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
SONG SWANS IN LAKE FRØLAND ...

Kvitingen

Weather and climate
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Endre Skaar
Few other places in Hordaland, or even the whole country, get as much rain as in the Samnanger mountains. The mountains here simply attract wetness. T...

Lona

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
One does not need much imaginationto see that where the river bends down in Røssebotnen, there has once been a lake. The landscape tells this - more c...

Frøland - Liarostunnel

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen

Fossen Bratte

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
The steep drop by Fossen cliff has been the biggest challenge for those who wished to make a road over Kvamskogen through the years. Leave the car by ...

Herdla – glacial deposits

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth Haakon Fossen
The shift in the landscape is striking between the barren craggy moors north on Askøy and the green fields of Herdla, which has the county's biggest f...

Herdla - botany

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe

Herdla - Migrating birds

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
Bergen folk landed on it, long and well. The Germans took it over, during the Second World War. The birds had been doing it for several thousands of y...

Herdleflaket

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
Spring, summer and autumn, there is bird life on Valen, and the tidal zone is especially attractive. Out on Herdlaflaket, you see ducks and other divi...

Ask - jordbær

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth Haakon Fossen
Strawberry-growing on Askøy flourished in the beginning of the last century. When gardener Samson Eik took in the type "Seierherren" from Rosendal in ...

Kollevågen

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
From 1938 until 1975 there was a large amount of trash dumped in Kollevågen. A lot of the garbage from the city of Bergen ended up here. The dump was ...

Hanøy

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
At Kong Olav V's Place in Bergen, one finds stone from Hanøy. Together with Sima-granite from Eid Fjord, it decorates the city floor around "The Blue ...