These European islands launched 30 road trips — but the destinations are kept secret

The Faroe Islands are rolling retired roadworthy trips for travelers looking to research beyond the accustomed blistery spots.

The catch? Visitors don't cognize wherever the trips volition instrumentality them.  

The Danish archipelago's tourism board, Visit Faroe Islands, connected Tuesday launched 30 itineraries that instrumentality travelers connected self-guided driving tours. The tours are accessible via phone, but each halt is kept concealed passim the journey.  

"You ne'er cognize wherever you're going to extremity up, and nary of the routes are published," said Marta Karadottir, the organization's contented and communications manager. "We're trying to support that benignant of curiosity live with travelers … [and] marque traveling a small spot much unpredictable."

Travelers travel a designated way that ensures nary different travelers amusement up astatine the aforesaid destination astatine the aforesaid time, according to a property release.

"We truly privation radical to get that consciousness of … other-worldly places wherever you're unsocial and with nature," Karadottir said.

Journeys instrumentality visitors to tiny villages, lesser-known restaurants and lookout points, wherever travelers tin stop, hike and walk time, according to a property release. Some of the itineraries instrumentality travelers from 1 land to different via ferry too, Karadottir said.

Each travel takes betwixt 3 and six hours, depending connected however agelong travelers privation to walk astatine each stop, she said.

Trips, however, travel with 1 caveat. Travelers indispensable perpetrate to completing the full route, without deviating to fashionable tourer spots, she said.  

"Instead of queuing up to instrumentality that 1 iconic picture, wherefore not spell to a spot that's close adjacent to it that you wouldn't cognize of … that is conscionable arsenic as stunning," she said. "When you fto go, you get amazed by thing much beautiful, oregon thing much real."  

The guided trips, dubbed "Auto Odyssey," tin beryllium taken successful travelers' ain cars oregon via rented vehicles, starting astatine astir $100 per day. Bookings tin beryllium made done Visit Faroe Islands.

Cradled betwixt Iceland and Scotland, the Faroe Islands are known for their melodramatic landscapes and off-grid appeal. The archipelago's colonisation of 55,000 unrecorded connected astir of its 18 large islands, with 40% surviving successful the superior metropolis of Tórshavn, according to a governmental website.

Visitors tin get to the Faroe Islands by taking a ferry from Iceland oregon Denmark, oregon by flying from mainland Europe, according to Visit Faroe Islands.