Fanø, April 2011

Here are some pictures of my trip to Fanø with my girlfriend. Click on a picture to see larger version (once opened, you can click on the large image to see the next large image).

First picture shows the everchanging landscape of Hønen, near Sønderho.

The picture was taken near the expensive restaurent, Sønderho Kro. We didn't go there... Well, here is how it looks from the side we saw (outside):

Looks idyllic, right? Well, the whole town is like that. As a sidenote, Sønderho recently got rated the most beautiful village in Denmark. The town is so idyllic, that it at times feels unheimlich.

Here is another photo of the village:

From our camping (Ny Sønderho Camping) we went across the island through what is called "the mountains" - a beautiful landscape of heather and sand dunes. Again: click on a photo to see a large version - in this case I really recommend it.

After some hours of this, we reached the beach on the west side of the island (Vesterhavet). This beach is quite unique, due to it being extremely wide, and the sand being very hard. Parts of the beach is used for road - thats right, ordinary cars can drive on it! Other parts of the beach is reserved for kite-surfers. You can see kite surfer tracks on the photo below:

The next day, we rented some bikes and set out for some walking paths in the middle of the island. Chance tooks us to a wooden playground.

From there we followed the yellow signs down a curvy road of concrete, cheerfully humming "follow the yellow brick road"... Again, nice and beautiful and everything (feel like I'm repeating myself here...). Some cows were standing in the roadside being blacker than I could imagine cows being.

From here, we went to Pælehøj, the tallest dune in Fanø, where we could see kitesurfers in the distance:

On pælebjerg, a fox stood and looked at us, seemingly surprised that we were staring back. It turned around and walked slowly down the road without bothering to look back.

From pælebjerg, we biked to a walking path on the east of the island. A little over-optimistic, we brought our bikes along the walking...  Here we found a GPS treasure by accident. Also, we came by a place they used to catch ducks. Very intricate deathtrap involving tamed ducks lurring wild ducks to a seemingly paradise pond. For ducks, this place has a dark history...

On the picture below you see one of the tentacles that the ducks were lurred into. The pond had several of these.