Ice cut from Bondhusbreen in the nineteenth century was hauled down to Maurangerfjorden by horse and sledge, loaded onto sailing ships, and sold in England to chill fish and cool drinks. The cart tracks survive. A Folgefonna Glacier Tour from Bergen still travels on them for the last few kilometres. Tourism inherited a supply line. Folgefonna, known locally as Folgefonni, is the third-largest glacier system in mainland Norway. It sits on the peninsula between Hardangerfjorden and Åkrafjorden, divided into three ice caps: Nordre, Midtre and Søndre Folgefonna. The southern cap covers roughly 168 square kilometres on its own. Sauanuten, its high point, stands at about 1,662 metres. The ice reaches close to 400 metres thick in the deepest hollows. Folgefonna National Park was established in 2005 and now protects around 545 square kilometres — ice, moraine ridges, birch woodland and hanging valleys that drop straight to salt water. Folgefonna Glacier Tour from Bergen tickets describe, in practice, a crossing of that boundary. The glacier is also a measuring instrument. Norwegian hydrologists have monitored its mass balance for decades, and the record is a retreat: tongues that reached low into the valleys within living memory now end several hundred metres higher. The three caps behave differently, and the northern one, thinner and lower, has lost ice faster than the broad southern plateau. Meltwater from the massif feeds the Mauranger power station, so the ice appears twice in the regional economy — as water in a turbine and as blue ice in a photograph. Rock flour ground from bedrock gives Bondhusvatnet its opaque grey-green colour, the same pigment that clouds Buerbreen's outflow above Odda. Day trips from Bergen now reach that meltwater in a single morning. Rosendal holds the interpretive centre. Folgefonnsenteret opened in 2018 at Skålafjæro 17, a low timber-and-concrete building by Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter, its roofline stepped like a fractured snout. Exhibitions inside treat glaciers, freshwater and climate as one subject. Doors stand open 10:00–16:00 every day; the park beyond costs 0 NOK to enter, while the centre keeps its own admission. Half a kilometre away, Baroniet Rosendal, founded in 1665, remains Norway's smallest barony — a manor of clipped hedges beneath 1,600 metres of ice. Folgefonna Glacier Tour from Bergen tours are, in the end, a short journey between two very old institutions: the estate and the icefield.