Kristiansand → Evje → Valle → Hovden → Haukeli
Kristiansand → Evje → Valle → Hovden → Haukeli · Rv9
Passes through 7 municipalities
About the drive
Convoy driving or short closures between Hovden and Haukeli in winter storms.
Along the way
- Quiet & remote — Bygland, Valle, Bykle, Vinje
- Adventure & sports — Kristiansand, Evje og Hornnes, Bykle, Vinje
- Lakes — Bygland, Vinje
- Mountains — Vinje
- Hiking — Vinje
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Stops along the route
- Kristiansand
Nordic modernism inside the Kunstsilo grain silo, Posebyen's old wooden streets and Kristiansand Zoo and Amusement Park.
- Vennesla
Steam trains on the Setesdalsbanen museum railway from Grovane, the timber-ribbed Vennesla library and the Bommen river museum on the Otra.
- Evje og Hornnes
Rafting and climbing on the Otra, the Evje mineral trail through old pegmatite mines and the Flåt nickel mine, worked until 1946.
- Bygland
Summer trips on the restored 1860s steamboat Bjoren across Byglandsfjorden, and Setesdal folk music at Ose Kulturverkstad.
- Valle
The 1590 Rygnestad loft, Setesdal's silversmith tradition and the bare valley walls that draw climbers to Valle.
- Bykle
Hovden's ski slopes and iron-smelting museum, the restored Byklestigen trail and the rose-painted 1619 Bykle church.
- Vinje
Folk-music Rauland by Lake Totak, the high road over Haukelifjell and long trails onto the southern Hardangervidda.