The Fjoneferja in Nissedal is a cable ferry that crosses Lake Nisser and provides a road connection between Fjone on the west side and Kyrkjebygda on the east side. It is Norway's smallest cable ferry and can only carry three cars at a time. A short walk through the forest from the ferry landing at Fjone is a beautiful sandy beach called Paradisbukta. This post describes the ferry and the beach. The ferry is a vintage boat that is still in operation. It runs once an hour in b

The Nissedal potholes are in a small valley in the mountains a few kilometers south of Lake Nisser, close to Hønetjønn. This beautiful natural phenomenon was created during the last ice age but was only discovered after the Fyresåna River was dammed in the 1950s. In the dried-up riverbed, both smooth-cut rocks with rounded shapes and small and large depressions emerged, which in some places were deep oblong or cylindrical holes, so-called potholes. This area is today a popula