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© Kathrine SørgaardUNESCO Island Vega
The Vega Archipelago was inscribed on UNESCO’s list of world heritage sites in 2004. The area gained world heritage status mainly due to the unique interaction between eider ducks and generations of fishermen/farmers.
Our bus excursion to Vega.
Program:
We travel by bus and scheduled ferry to Nes, Vega“the Gateway to the World Heritage Site”.
Here we will visit the Eider Duck Museum (Ehuset)
which provides insight into the islanders’ unique tradition of keeping eider ducks as domestic animals.
In the same house is yet another exhibition and shop, Little Lånan, which documents the islands of
Lånan’s history.
We will also visit the World Heritage Exhibition at that in words and images further explains the
archipelago’s status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Lunch at the Island is incl in the excrsion.
Excursion taks about 5 hours.
