Understanding Klaksvík: A Self-guided city tour in KlaksvÍk
- 1 hour
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- Guided in English
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
This self-guided tour can be done with MP3 offline audio players or the Tell Me North app. Both options allow you to do this tour at your own pace by foot, car, bus, or public transport. You can listen while exploring the stops or do so while sipping your coffee at a local café, thus giving you the freedom to decide on your own, while learning about contemporary Klaksvík, its people, and factors that have impacted the local community through faith, football, fishing hooks and sub-sea tunnels. The story Understanding Klaksvík gives you an insight previously only known to locals into the local life and culture, history, and power dynamics and will enhance your understanding of the Faroe Islands as a whole.
Inclusions
What's included
- MP3 Player or APP
- All Fees and Taxes
What's not
- Headphones
Itinerary
Stop 1: Betesta church If you have an MP3 player, Fetch it at Visit Norðoy and walk to Betesta church and start when ready If you use the Tell Me North app, walk walk to Betesta church and start when ready. The Betesta Church has had a crucial influence on Klaksvík today.
Stop 2: Football in Klaksvík The news about KÍ Klaksvík's recent results in men's football have shocked the football world. Learn about how that came to be.
Stop 3: The Giant Fishing Hook The story behind this giant fishing hook is captivating and caused an uproar between the fishing capital Klaksvík and the actual capital Tórshavn in more than one way.
Stop 4: The Sub-sea tunnel This last stop should be admired from afar. The Norðoya Tunnel, a sub-sea tunnel connecting Klaksvík to Leirvík, linked the Northern isles to the Faroese mainland and forever changed Klaksvík.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Reviews
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Ratings come from 4 reviews collected by our booking partner. They are travellers' own words, in the order they were written — never reordered to flatter the experience.
Know before you go
- Meeting point
- If you choose the MP3 Player go to Café Fríða during their opening hours and start when ready. Remember that you have to hand back in the MP3 player at this meeting point when you are done. If you prefer to use the Tell Me North app, you can download the app yourself on App Store or Play Store.
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Group size
- Up to 100 travellers
- Operated by
- Tell Me North self-guided audiotours in Klaksvik
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
How it compares in Tórshavn
- Its from-price is 98% below the median of the 11 experiences we list in Tórshavn.
- It is shorter than most of them.
- By number of reviews it ranks 8 of 11.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Tórshavn
Tórshavn, capital of the Faroe Islands, is a small harbour town on the island of Streymoy, with turf-roofed houses on the old Tinganes peninsula.
Tórshavn sits on the south-east coast of Streymoy, the largest of the Faroe Islands, a group in the North Atlantic between Iceland and Norway. The old town of Tinganes, a rocky promontory of red-painted wooden buildings with turf roofs, has been the seat of the Faroese parliament since Viking times, and its name comes from thing, the assembly. Skansin, an old fort above the harbour, and the narrow lanes of the old quarter make up a compact centre.
