Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Hamnøy
Hamnøy Mat og Vinbu
NORWEGIAN
( 76 09 21 45; Hamnøy; mains Nkr175-295; late May-early Sep)
This welcoming restaurant is run by three generations of the same family. It's well re-
garded for local specialities, including bacalao and cod tongues. Grandmother takes care
of the traditional dishes - just try her fish cakes - while her son is the main chef. Its fish is
bought daily from the harbour barely 100m away.
Southern Islands
This remote pair of islands is superb for birdwatching. Værøy, mainly high and rugged,
and Røst, flat as a pancake, both offer good walking and relative solitude in well-touristed
Lofoten.
Værøy
Pop 570
Craggy Værøy, its handful of residents hugely outnumbered by over 100,000 nesting sea
birds - fulmars, gannets, Arctic terns, guillemots, gulls, sea eagles, puffins, kittiwakes,
cormorants, eiders, petrels and a host of others - is a mere 8km long with white-sand
beaches, soaring ridges, tiny, isolated villages, granite-gneiss bird cliffs and sparkling seas.
Sights & Activities
Walking routes approach some of the major
sea-bird rookeries
. The most scenic and pop-
ular trail begins at the end of the road around the north of the island, about 6km from
Sør-
land
and 300m beyond the former airstrip. It heads southward along the west coast, over
the Eidet isthmus to the mostly abandoned fishing village of
Måstad
, on the east coast,
where meat and eggs from the puffin colonies once supported 150 people.
Fit hikers who relish a challenge may also want to attempt the steep climb from Måstad
to the peak of
Måhornet
(431m), which takes about an hour each way. Alternatively, from
