Lamba Rituvík 5

Lamba Rituvík

Enjoy the beautiful and easy route from one of the old villages in the Faroe Islands to one of the newest

Begin at Lambareiði. From there you have two options. The first is to walk around 700 metres to the village of Lamba, where the old village path starts  . First, go through a gate and start to go up along the river. It is a little steep to get up. The other option is to walk along a paved road, which goes up to a quarry. From there you can also enter the path  .

At the top, you have a panoramic view of Lambavík. Here, the Danish ship Norske Løve stranded on New Year’s Eve in 1707. It was on its way to the East Indies, but entered stormy weather west of the Hebrides. From there the ship drifted to the Faroe Islands. 14 people died in the storm, with about 100 being rescued. Today there is no trace of the Norske Løve, but some objects from the ship still exist. The ship’s bell is in Havnar Kirkja, as well as a model of the ship, made by a member of the crew. There were also two planks from the ship, one of which is in a farmer’s house in Lamba, and a chair is in the local museum Blásastova in Gøta.

Lamba is among the somewhat older villages in the Faroe Islands. It dates back to at least 1350, but may be older.

To the south you can see cairns standing in a row on a long stretch towards Rituvík. You pass along old peat strips. The terrain is flat and easy to walk on.

When you approach Rituvík, you overlook Nólsoy. You can also see the wind farm in Eystnes. In recent years, the Faroe Islands has focused more on wind energy and, today, around half of the electricity consumption is produced by renewable energy. Several Duration: Two hours from the village of Lamba, one and a half hours from the quarry

Distance: 5.3 km

Difficulty: A little difficult to walk up from Lamba. Further forward, the trip is easy.

Maximum height: 243 m

Children: Suitable for children

Surface: Grass cairn path

Map: 510

wind turbines have been installed on Eystnes and a new windmill park has been built near Tórshavn.

There is also a view of Svangaskarð, where one of the country’s national football stadiums is located, along with an athletics stadium. Over on Streymoy, you see the mouth of Kalbaksfjørður.

The terrain is grassy down to the road to Rituvík, which is one of the newer villages in the Faroe Islands. It was first founded in the later half of the 1800s. At the church, a statue of the first people who moved to Rituvík stands erected. The coast outside the village is known to be an excellent dive side that has sand, and is located near kelp forests and underwater rock canyons.