This time we were on another small organized tour with fourteen people. It included Ed, Dave and the other ladies we had traveled with the last couple days. Soon our tour guide and bus arrived and we were on our way. A map of Faroe was provided which helped to follow the route to the various islands, tunnels and small towns. We were amazed how green and lush the mountains were. I always had thought of these islands as barren rocks.

Our tour guide/driver pointed out the round, floating caches. They were fish farms primarily raising salmon. Fishing is still the main industry in the Faroe Islands and practically all is exported. In fact, our driver told us that many times fish is hard to buy in the local markets. Our tour continues and, after going through a five mile long tunnel under water and through a mountain side, we stopped at these rock formations. They were the ruins of the early people who had come from Scandinavia. Obviously wood was scarce, but rocks were plentiful.

The roads were very good and, because of the steep terrain, we went through several tunnels. Here we have one that is one way (notice the blue sign with the red and white arrows). When inside, and if you had the red arrow your way, it was necessary to quickly pull into a small alcove for oncoming traffic. It was not something I would want to do on our own. Large tour busses would never be able to go there. Again the surrounding hills were steep with some cattle and sheep. We even saw some dart across the road. Wild flowers abounded.

Somewhere along the way we had lunch, but I cannot remember where. It was a small cafe with good buffet food. The difficulty was that they could not use our credit cards without the 'Pin and Chip' feature. After some consulting between the owner and tour guide, he accepted our US dollars.
Then it was off to the second biggest island Eysfuroy and the little town of Gjogv at the northern tip. Along the way more great scenery. The grandmother of our guide lives in the little village far below.