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The '''Faroe Islands''' are a great place to hitch-hike. There may not be as high flow of traffic as in other places, but many times the first car you encounter stops. For those times when there aren't any cars, the scenery is so amazing that it's nice to walk. If you decide to walk along the road without hitching for a few hours, be prepared for drivers to stop and offer to give you a ride. Nearly everyone speaks English, but you will likely encounter drivers on in the more isolated places who speak only Faroese and Danish. If you speak another Scandinavian language, their Danish is really easy to understand.
You really need to leave your worries about safety behind in the Faroes. No one has any ulterior/sinister motive for picking you up − they are just genuinely nice and helpful people. Crime in the Faroes is limited to kids breaking windows, with maybe two or three exceptions in the last 5 years or so.
[[File:Suduroy.JPG|300px|thumb|left|Faroese road on a hot summer day.]]
== Transportation in the Faroes ==
You can't hitch on the ferries of course − you pay. It's not expensive.
There are also many tunnels connecting towns and islands. Except for the newest ones, they are generally one lane and without lights. They are very scary and dangerous to walk through − avoid at all costs!!
[[File:DSC 1152.JPG|250px|thumb|right|[[User:Gutuater|Gutuater]] was given tea, biscuits, an endless chat and a ride after a total random encounter with [[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3han_Hendrik_Winther_Poulsen|the father of the modern Faroese language in June 2009]].
== Islands ==
'''Suðuroy''' (litterally "South Island") is fairly big and different from the other islands (they even speak a different dialect). The traffic is poor, as the transportation of cars to and from the island limited. But people are friendly and like on other islands, chances to be picked up are high in spite of the few cars. The road network is not so good, so you can't really drive around the island.
[[File:HHForoya.JPG|200px|thumb|right|[[User:Gutuater|Gutuater]] hitching a ride with two local girls in Suðuroy.]]
Hitchwiki user [[user:Gutuater|Gutuater]] was there during the holiday called ''Jónsøka'' and the interior of the island seemed to be uninhabited; but he found two 17-years-old schoolgirls that had nothing to do and drove him around. The beach town of Fámjin with the lake up the hill is a spectacular destination (it was very hot and he wanted to take a swim in the lake, but the water was ice cold!!).
