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Traditional Faro
village; The
Tarv grill house;
Paname Café
cheesecake;
Italian-inspired
Skeiva Pakkhús
and salt cod ravioli
skerpikjøt. The look and taste of the
dried stuff is similar to European
GET HIKING
charcuterie. Fish such as local cod is
Pack your sturdy boots and explore the • Leitisvatn (Hanging Lake) To get the air-dried and fermented in a similar
ancient footpaths that carve up the dramatic ultimate social media snap, head to Vágar way to make ræstur fiskur. If you’re
landscape. Here are three top walks. to see Leitisvatn, the largest lake on the tempted by these Faroese delicacies
• Saksun to Tjørnuvik From the village of islands. The lake sits above the ocean with have dinner at Ræst (raest.fo/raest)
Saksun on Streymoy island, there’s an a spectacular waterfall spilling into the sea. in Tórshavn, where the set menu
enjoyable scenic walk over to the next Book a day with guide Jóhannus Hansen costs around £80 per person.
village, Tjørnuvik (about 8km). from Reika Adventures (reika.fo), who The Faroe Islands’ starriest
• Gásadalur This remote village on Vágar can take you into the more remote restaurant (one of Johannes Jensen’s
island is a picture-perfect spot. The river parts of the islands. A two to three- portfolio) is the two-Michelin-star
flows below the houses and the roaring hour hike costs DKK500-700 Koks (koks.fo). It was set up in
Múlafossur waterfall tumbles down into (£60-80) per person Tórshavn in 2011 under pioneering
the ocean. It’s a bracing two-hour hike for groups of up Faroese chef Leif Sørensen, but
over the headland. to four. when current head chef Poul
Andrias Ziska took the reins in
2014, they moved the restaurant to
the secluded valley of Leynavatn,
14 miles northwest of the capital.
Housed in a traditional turf-
roofed house beside a lake and
surrounded by hills, Koks is truly
breathtaking. After a welcome
drink in a wheeled fermentation
hut called a skerpi, guests are
driven over to the restaurant and
treated to an 18-course tasting
