What is actually worth your day
With the two things that decide whether you can do it: can you get there without a car, and will the weather take it away.
12 things to do
Sørvágsvatn — the lake above the ocean
The optical illusion where a lake appears to hang hundreds of metres above the sea.
Múlafossur waterfall, Gásadalur
A waterfall that drops straight off the cliff into the sea, with the village behind it.
Kallur lighthouse, Kalsoy
A ridge walk to a lighthouse on a headland, with the northern islands laid out behind it.
Slættaratindur
The highest point in the country, at 880 metres.
Vestmanna bird cliffs by boat
A boat trip into sea caves and under vertical bird cliffs on the west coast.
Nólsoy on foot
The easiest island day in the country — a short ferry from Tórshavn and a single village.
Tinganes and the old town
Black timber and turf roofs on the promontory where the parliament has met since the tenth century.
Kirkjubøur — cathedral ruin and Roykstovan
A roofless fourteenth-century cathedral and the oldest continuously inhabited timber house in the world.
Mykines puffin colony
Puffins in numbers, on a walk out to a lighthouse across a footbridge to a sea stack.
Saksun lagoon at low tide
A tidal lagoon in a natural amphitheatre, walkable to the sea at low water.
The village swimming pools
Heated indoor pools in villages far too small to justify them — and the best wet-weather plan in the country.
Heimablídni — dinner in a private home
The Faroese tradition of hosting paying guests for dinner in your own house.