How do you see the floating lake in the Faroe Islands?

Walk the trail along Sørvágsvatn to the Trælanípan cliff, 142 meters above the sea. From there the lake appears to float above the ocean. The trail continues to the Bøsdalafossur waterfall, a mandatory hiking fee applies, and guided hiking tours are available if you would rather not go alone.

How far is Múlafossur from the parking area?

About a five-minute walk. Múlafossur drops 30 meters off the cliffs into the North Atlantic beside the small village of Gásadalur, which is reached by tunnel from the Vágar Airport side of the island. The waterfall is free to see, and its record calls it a good photo spot at sunrise and sunset.

Miðvágur From TikTok: Floating Lake, Waterfall, Sea Stacks

A lake that seems to hang above the ocean is the most posted place on this page. Trælanípan is a 142-meter sea cliff beside Sørvágsvatn, the largest lake in the Faroe Islands, and from the cliff the lake appears to float above the sea. Every place here is on Vágar, the island Miðvágur sits on, or just off its coast, from the waterfall at Gásadalur to the sea stacks in the west.

With four posts, Múlafossur Waterfall comes second: it drops 30 meters straight into the North Atlantic, a five-minute walk from the village parking area. Seven of the eight places are landscapes or villages, and the eighth is Sandavágur's red-roofed church. Several of them charge a hiking fee or require a guide, so check before you go.

Nature & outdoors

TrælanípanSunset Viewpoint Múlafossur WaterfallWaterfall DrangarnirNatural Landmark SørvágsvatnLake DunnesdrangarNatural Landmark

Destinations

GásadalurTown BøurTown

Culture & arts

Sandavágur ChurchChurch

The lake and the cliff

Sørvágsvatn and Trælanípan are one walk. The trail runs along the lake to the ocean cliffs and on to the Bøsdalafossur waterfall, and the lake's record notes a mandatory hiking fee. Trælanípan is also known as the Slave Cliff, with Viking-era folklore attached, and it looks out toward Streymoy, Hestur and Koltur. Guided hiking tours are available. What the posts are after is the illusion itself: from the cliff edge, the lake looks higher than the ocean below it.

Sea stacks and guided hikes

Drangarnir, two basalt stacks with a natural arch between Vágar and Tindhólmur, can only be reached on a guided boat or hiking tour, and its record warns of fines for going without a guide. Seabirds nest there in summer. Dunnesdrangar, 70-meter stacks on the west coast, is a 3 km moorland hike from Sørvágur that also needs a local guide, with a 60 EUR fee and a recommended season of April through September. For a view of Drangarnir without the tour, the village of Bøur looks across to the stacks and to the islets of Tindhólmur and Gáshólmur.

Villages

Gásadalur is the remote village above Múlafossur, with cliffside paths, views of Mykines and a cafe serving coffee and cakes; the waterfall record says it is reached through a tunnel from the Vágar Airport side. Bøur is a small farming village of black, sod-roofed houses with a church from 1865, described in one post as peaceful. In Sandavágur, the red-roofed church sits on the edge of the bay beside a historic cemetery.

Good to know

Yes. The Drangarnir record says access is only by guided boat or hiking tour, and that the guide is mandatory to avoid fines. Dunnesdrangar, the other sea stacks on this page, also requires a local guide and lists a 60 EUR hiking fee. From Bøur village you can see Drangarnir without joining a tour.