The first thing you do upon arriving to the island of Mykines is look up.
Your eyes are automatically drawn in that direction for two reasons: 1. the ferry pulls in to a tiny bay surrounded by tall stone cliffs; and 2. that’s where all the birds are.
Mykines – the westernmost of the Faroe Islands (and actually pronounced “meech-ih-ness“) – is known for one main thing: it’s abundant variety of bird life, which explodes during the summer months with nesting seabirds. There are gannets and cormorants and razorbills and fulmars and storm petrels and kittiwakes… and Atlantic puffins. And, for most people, the puffins are the stars of the show here.
There are only two ways to get to Mykines from the larger…