Walking in the Faroe Islands

This seven-night escorted tour begins on Vagar, where a short walk from the airport leads to your first hotel. After a relaxed arrival day, the week unfolds with ferry crossings and hikes that shape the Faroese landscape: from the puffin colonies and sea stacks of Mykines and the boat trip around the towering Vestmanna Bird Cliffs, to the optical illusion of the ‘floating lake’ Sorvagsvatn. The blend of boat and foot travel lets the islands’ nature speak, with details like birds’ egg collecting once vital to locals.

As the tour moves north, hikes bring you through villages such as Eidi, dating back to Viking times, and Klaksvik, where the maritime heritage is clear in the harbour and vessels. The route cycles southward to Torshavn, the Faroes’ historic capital, featuring turf-roofed houses and a 12th-century parliament site. Nearby Nolsoy Island is on foot, its terrain occasionally boggy, home to storm petrels rather than hordes of tourists.

The final day combines history and walking with visits to millennia-old churches and cathedral ruins before a hill path back to the capital. It’s a steady pace, giving time to take in the scale and solitude of this North Atlantic archipelago without feeling rushed or overexerted.

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These are the places the trip visits, in order. Explore Worldwide publishes the day-by-day itinerary on its own site.