Torshavn: all 14 tours and excursions for your cruise
Tórshavn by private van with guide - full day
- Cruise line: Silversea
Explore at your leisure during your full-day (8-Hour) sightseeing tour via private van. Customise your own itinerary or choose to see an overview of the area's highlights.Depart the pier with your English-speaking guide in an air-conditioned van and discover the city and surrounding areas at your own pace. Your exclusive tour concludes back at the pier. Points of interestsPoints of interest seen on this excursion may include:
Faroe scenic drive
Note Please note: Private vehicles and guides...
Tórshavn by private van with guide - half day
- Cruise line: Silversea
Explore at your leisure during your half-day (4-Hour) sightseeing tour via private van. Customise your own itinerary or choose to see an overview of the area's highlights.Depart the pier with your English-speaking guide in an air-conditioned van and discover the city and surrounding areas at your own pace. Your exclusive tour concludes back at the pier. Points of interestsPoints of interest seen on this excursion may include:
Faroe scenic drive
Note Please note: Private vehicles and guides...
Tórshavn by private car with guide - full day
- Cruise line: Silversea
Explore at your leisure during your full-day (8-Hour) sightseeing tour via private car. Customise your own itinerary or choose to see an overview of the area's highlights.Depart the pier with your English-speaking guide in an air-conditioned car and discover the city and surrounding areas at your own pace. Your exclusive tour concludes back at the pier. Points of interestsPoints of interest seen on this excursion may include:
Faroe scenic drive
Note Please note: Private vehicles and guides...
Tórshavn by private car with guide - half day
- Cruise line: Silversea
Explore at your leisure during your half-day (4-Hour) sightseeing tour via private car. Customise your own itinerary or choose to see an overview of the area's highlights.Depart the pier with your English-speaking guide in an air-conditioned car and discover the city and surrounding areas at your own pace. Your exclusive tour concludes back at the pier. Points of interestsPoints of interest seen on this excursion may include:
Faroe scenic drive
Note Please note: Private vehicles and guides...
Scenic faroes
- Cruise line: Silversea
Explore the capital and largest city of the Faroe Islands during this panoramic, half-day sightseeing excursion to Tórshavn and its surrounds.Tórshavn, Eidi and Funning Viewpoints, and Scenic BridgeDepart the pier for the scenic, approximately 45-minute drive north, past idyllic villages, en route to photo stops at the Eidi and Funning viewpoints. During your stops, see 'the only bridge over the Atlantic', as it is sometimes called, which spans the narrow channel of Sundini to connect Eysturoy...
Traditional villages
- Cruise line: Silversea
Enjoy the scenic views and hear the traditions of the villagers in this remote, but beautiful destination during this half-day tour.Tórshavn ViewsBoarding your coach at the harbour across from historic tinganes, the rocky peninsula in Tórshavn harbour where the ancient vikings met. Travel up to the scenic, ridge-top road that runs along the southern part of Streymoy island, pausing above Tórshavn for a photo stop at a viewpoint overlooking this colourful capital city. In the green,...
Vágar island
- Cruise line: Silversea
Arguably one of the most beautiful island on earth, Vàgar is an awesome paradise of spine-tingling, jaw-dropping natural sites. Your epic adventure begins at the secluded little village of Gàsaldur, home to only 25 houses, where mighty Múlafossur Waterfall-easily the nation's most iconic image-cascades more than 30 meters (100 feet) over dramatic cliffs into the ocean below. Then it's onto coastal Bøur village with its tiny turf houses that nestled beneath mountainous peaks. Here,...
Streymoy sill hike
- Cruise line: Silversea
Depart the pier by coach and travel along the Kaldbak fjord where you will enjoy the sight of cascading waterfalls and lazy sheep wandering about. Continue through the tunnel to Kollafjørður and further north through the valley and stop at the top of the columnar basalt of Streymoy sill. Here, start your walk and head up the mountain towards the sill. On the top you can admire the splendid scenery of the rock formation and a beautiful scenery of the island of Vágar. Pause by the small...
Leitisvatn 'floating lake' hike
- Cruise line: Silversea
Enjoy a two-hour hike along the beautiful path leading through old peat meadows. Head to Trælanípan, or Slave Cliff, a name dating back to the Viking Age when disobedient slaves were pushed off the mountain straight to their deaths. Take in the views from this perpendicular rock wall jutting 142 meters up from the ocean, and spy the southernmost parts of the several other Faroe Islands. From here, see the fresh water Lake Leitisvatn, the largest lake in the Faroe Islands. Look at...
Vestmanna sea cliffs
- Cruise line: Silversea
An upheaval from center Earth and a jaw-dropping site to experience, the verdant Vestamanna Sea Cliffs are a wonder wreathed in greenery and towering some 600 meters (1,968 feet) above the sea. Aboard a boat you will navigate to the home to thousands of seabirds, among them puffins, razorbills, and guillemots, that live in a labyrinth of spectacular geology -- basalt columns, deep grottos, magnificent arches-that is skirted by abundant shoals where fish gather. Here too, the Faroese have made their...
Kirkjubour, historical museum and tinganes walk
- Cruise line: Silversea
Drive to Kirkjubøur, the ecclesiastical and cultural center of the Faroe Islands during the Middle Ages and site of the bishop's residence prior to the Reformation. Take in the imposing ruin of Saint Magnus Cathedral that still dominates landscape. Learn about its construction, thought to have begun in the late-thirteenth century based upon the Gothic architecture. Visit the 900-year-old Roykstovan, both a museum and a home to centuries of Kirkjubøur farmers. Next, continue...
Hike to streymoy sill
- Cruise line: Silversea
Peace, tranquillity and stunning vistas can be enjoyed during this leisurely mile-and-a half (2.5 kilometre) hike that takes you closer to the nature of the Faroe Islands. Depart Tórshavn by coach and ascend the mountain road glimpsing fjords and distant islands until reaching approximately 216 yards (200 metres) above sea level. From here, embark on a cross-country trek in the company of knowledgeable local guides. The first 216 yards (200 metres) of the hike is strenuous after which you can...
Vestmanna sea cliffs
- Cruise line: Silversea
Enjoy a unique perspective on the Faroe Islands' spectacular scenery from both land and sea. Drive to VestmannaDeparting the harbor, drive alongside fjords where many waterfalls cascade from cragged, mountains into tranquil waters. Pass through tunnels carved from ancient rock and enjoy magnificent vistas of a lake-filled valley before descending to Vestmanna - a colourful village on the western coast of Streymoy. Boat Trip along the cliffsFrom here, enjoy an unforgettable boat trip with the direction...
Tórshavn the capital
- Cruise line: Silversea
Enjoy an introduction to this lovely capital city during this half-day excursion.TorshavnIt began with a Viking "Thing" (original Norse assembly), followed by a market, later it became a thriving town and today it is one of the smallest and most pleasant capital cities in the world. Tórshavn today blends the historical and picturesque with all the features of a modern city. Discover quality restaurants and hotels, conference facilities, interesting museums, discotheques, cinema, live...