Ferries from Kinsarvik båtkai

From Kinsarvik the boat turns north into the fjord's longest leg: Ulvik, 12.9 nautical miles away, taking 42 minutes outbound and 40 back. Lofthus in the other direction is 3.6 miles and 20 minutes.

The morning departure is at 10:33 and the afternoon return at 15:55 — a five-hour gap during which the vessel reaches the head of the fjord and comes back.

Kinsarvik has a stone church from around 1180, one of the oldest in Hardanger, and the village sits at the foot of the path up to Hardangervidda — the plateau route that carried traffic between eastern and western Norway for centuries before any road did. The quay and the old trading post beside it were the point where the mountain crossing met the fjord.