Lysefjord or Lysefjorden[1] is a fjord located in the Ryfylke area in Rogaland county in southwestern Norway.

Lysebotn, at the far eastern end of the fjord, is largely populated by workers at the nearby hydroelectric plants at Lyse and Tjodan, both built inside the mountains.

At the Lyse plant, the water falls 620 metres (2,030 ft) to the turbines, producing up to 210,000 kilowatts (280,000 hp) of electricity.

Lysefjorden is an extremely popular tourist attraction and day trip from the nearby city of Stavanger, from where cruise ships travel the full distance of the fjord.

At the end of the fjord lies the 1,110-metre (3,640 ft) tall Kjerag mountain, a popular hiking destination with even more spectacular drops.

French writer Victor Hugo wrote the novel, Toilers of the Sea, in which he admires the scenery of the fjord after a visit here in 1866.

The defile has its elbows and angles like all these streets of the sea--never straight, having been formed by the irregular action of the water.