Follow the future Ryfylke National Tourist Route past verdant Fjords and bare Mountain Peaks.
Take a walk up the stairway path at Svandalsfossen falls in Sand.
Photo: Per Kollstad / Statens vegvesen
Photo: Per Kollstad / Statens vegvesen
Ryfylke offers the traveller a varied, beautiful and fertile landscape, where green idyllic skerries and well-kept cultural landscapes are suddenly replaced by rockslides, polished cliffs, mountains and fjords.
Along the way you will pass villages, towns and cultural attractions like old industrial buildings and the abandoned 19th century zinc mines at Allmannajuvet. The smelting plants of the town of Sauda, deep in the mountains and waterfalls of Ryfylke, offer a good starting point for a trip through Norwegian industrial history.
A network of paths with modern architecture has been established beside Svandalsfossen waterfall. Ropeid ferry quay now has a waiting room of daring design and work started in Allmanajuvet in 2009 on building an attraction of high international quality and design. A detour south from the road brings the traveller to Preikestolhytta, from which a prepared path goes up to the famous Pulpit Rock, with its magnificent but dizzying view over Lysefjord.
The future Ryfylke National Tourist Route runs between Oanes by the Lysefjord to Hårå at Røldal and is 183 kilometres long. Get status by 2012.
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