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At Nesheim, Sveio
Mølstrevåg
200m
Vikse
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The coastal trip in Sveio (49 km) (Sveio – Rød – Auklandshamn – Bua – Vikse – Sveio)
Buavåg
Auklandshamn
Tjernangel
Sveio
Tveit
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Difficulty level: Medium
Length: 49 km
Surface: Tarmac and gravel road
Rød
The route varies from cycle path along the main road,
country road through beautiful farmland and roads along
the coast. There is several opportunities to take detours if
you like, or possible short cuts.
Where the road from the Golf-park meets the road to the village, turn left and ride on
the pedestrian-/cycle-track, signposted “Bergen”, i.e. northwards alongside the main
road Route 47. When the cycle-track stops, you have to cross the road; the cycle-track
resumes on the right-hand side. It continues through an underpass at the intersection
with the highway E39, and you ride on, past a service-station on the east side, Haukås,
until you get to Rød.
At the sign to “Auklandshamn”, turn left, leaving the cycle-track. This road is narrow
and winding, with local traffic. On the right-hand side is Langevatnet with places for
swimming and for fishing if you buy a fishing-permit. You come to a road junction with
a sign to “Tjernagel”. You can make a detour here by taking the road to the right, then
walk to the recreation area Slettene, where you can swim or picnic, and there’s a public
toilet. Otherwise go to the left at that junction. There is a store at Auklandshamn.
You ride south along the coast with its inlets, towards Tjernagel. There is a riding
school, and a little further on down a hill to the right an old harbour and fishing-port.
The road goes to Bua. On the left is Storevatnet where you can swim. Just past a
kindergarten (previously school) on the left, you come to a crossroads. (Straight ahead
is the shortest way back to Sveio village, a hilly road with traffic to and from the ferry.)
The road to the right from the crossroads, with a sign to “Bømlo”, brings you to Buavåg
where a car-ferry goes from. There is a public toilet in the waiting-room.
From here the road southwards, Route 541, is part of the North Sea Cycle Route, in the
direction of Haugesund. Just south of Buavåg you can swim in the sea at Grunnavåg, 5
minutes’ walk from the road. Further on at Hovda there is a place to stop with a view
over Bømlafjord running out into the North Sea passage Sletto. Continuing southwards
you pass Eltravåg and come to Lyngholmsvegen. Here is another possible detour, to
the right out to the monument in memory of the shipwreck “D S Thor” in 1906. Route
541 goes past Vandaskog and on the left is the gravel road Paddevegen, with a small
red house from 1800. This is the way back, but another possible detour is to ride 1/2
km further on to Mølstre crossroads, and turn right at the sign. “Ryvarden Kulturfyr”, a
lighthouse well worth visiting. About 7 kilometres there and back (4 km gravel).
From Mølstre crossroads you turn left and ride 1/2 km back to Paddevegen. There is
little traffic on this gravel road but beware, because of the forest and the hills, you
don’t always see or hear it until the last minute. When you get to the asphalt, turn right
and shortly left on to the cycle-track back to the shops and on to the Golf-park.