North European travel guide
self-guided road-trips
Take one of Norway’s national tourist roads along the western coast of the ancient island Andøya.
Free interactive Google Map (with every place mentioned in the guide marked with an address) that can be loaded into your GPS, making finding that stave church or petrol station much easier.
Detailed overviews of all the major points of interest on the road.
Practical information (cafes, dining, museums, toilets, petrol, road-side rest areas, detours, alternate routes)
Historic, modern and practical information for every city, town, village, and farm you pass through
Modern and historic images of all the major points of interests
Distance between points (in kilometres and miles)
QR code & interactive links to museum websites, relevant pages on our website, ferry timetables, and more!
This guide is 5 pages and comes in a PDF format.
The Andøya Tourist Road is one of the most secret but most special tourist roads in the country. Following the western coast of the island Andøya, the road is mostly remote but follows steep cliffs and marshland. The island Andøya is an important island historically; it has been known since the Viking Age as an important fishing area, and is where almost all of Norway’s fossil discoveries have been made. If you visit Andøya, be sure to allow time to do both a puffin safari and a whale safari; Andøya is famous for both. The drive is short and the stops are few and far between, but enjoy the scenery and stop wherever you can!
59km / 37 miles
Risøyhamn
Andenes
This drive can easily be done in either direction.
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An interactive version of this map is available upon purchase.
Example of what the guide looks like.
Follow my drive from Harstad to Andenes on the tourist road. This was filmed in 2021.