The Faroe Islands are rolling out highway journeys for vacationers trying to discover past the standard sizzling spots.
The catch? Guests do not know the place the journeys will take them.
The Danish archipelago’s tourism board, Go to Faroe Islands, on Tuesday launched 30 itineraries that take vacationers on self-guided driving excursions. The excursions are accessible through cellphone, however every cease is stored secret all through the journey.
“You by no means know the place you are going to find yourself, and not one of the routes are printed,” mentioned Marta Karadottir, the group’s content material and communications supervisor. “We’re attempting to maintain that form of curiosity alive with vacationers … [and] make touring slightly bit extra unpredictable.”
We actually need folks to get that sense of … other-worldly locations the place you are alone and with nature.
Marta Karadottir
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Vacationers observe a chosen route that ensures no different vacationers present up on the similar vacation spot on the similar time, based on a press launch.
“We actually need folks to get that sense of … other-worldly locations the place you are alone and with nature,” Karadottir mentioned.
Journeys take guests to small villages, lesser-known eating places and lookout factors, the place vacationers can cease, hike and spend time, based on a press launch. Among the itineraries take vacationers from one island to a different through ferry too, Karadottir mentioned.
Every journey takes between three and 6 hours, relying on how lengthy vacationers wish to spend at every cease, she mentioned.
Go to Faroe Islands has revealed just a few landmarks on its new guided highway journeys, one among which is Lake Funningsvatn, which sits beneath the archipelago’s highest peaks.
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Journeys, nonetheless, include one caveat. Vacationers should decide to finishing the complete route, with out deviating to fashionable vacationer spots, she mentioned.
“As a substitute of queuing as much as take that one iconic image, why not go to a spot that is proper subsequent to it that you just would not know of … that’s simply as equally gorgeous,” she mentioned. “If you let go, you get stunned by one thing extra stunning, or one thing extra actual.”
Vacationers can use their very own automobiles or lease one for round $100 per day.
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The guided journeys, dubbed “Auto Odyssey,” will be taken in vacationers’ personal automobiles or through rented autos, beginning at round $100 per day. Bookings will be made by Go to Faroe Islands.
Cradled between Iceland and Scotland, the Faroe Islands are recognized for his or her dramatic landscapes and off-grid attraction. The archipelago’s inhabitants of 55,000 reside on most of its 18 main islands, with 40% residing within the capital metropolis of Tórshavn, based on a governmental web site.
Guests can get to the Faroe Islands by taking a ferry from Iceland or Denmark, or by flying from mainland Europe, based on Go to Faroe Islands.
