Exclusive experiences

Would you like to experience the life of an eider keeper at close quarters?

Now is your chance! Each year in May and June we take a few visitors who are able to live with us, at a time when Lånan is otherwise out of bounds in accordance with conservation regulations.

You take part in our day’s work and we live in harmony with nature. The world around becomes less important and in a way time stands still.

The day’s weather forecast is often our only contact with the outside world. The wind and weather decide whether we can take a trip on the sea to catch fish for dinner. The food is served when we come ashore, at whatever time of day that may be. A Lånan speciality is wafles made with eider eggs. Delicious!

There is no electricity on Lånan, but sun panels, gas cooker, wood stove and outdoor loo. The quietness is disturbed only by nature’s own orchestra. Your bed has of course a Lånan eiderdown duvet.

As our guest we can offer you:

• Peace and quiet in the heart of the fantastic realm of the eider duck.

• To be there to witness the eider ducks come ashore by night.

• To accompany us to holms and skerries to look for the ducks and collect seagull eggs.

• To go with the keepers to check whether ducks have arrived on the nests and whether they have been visited by mink or other such enemies of the ducks.

• A wide variety of birdlife, such as eagles, owls, redshank, lapwing, grouse, barnacle geese and many kinds of smaller birds.

• Your own fishing line and trips on the sea, so that you can catch your own dinner.

• To meet hospitable people in a fantastic community far from civilisation who will tell you about life on Lånan in former times and give exciting accounts of wartime events.

• Incredible scenery: the mountains Syv Søstre (Seven Sisters), Dønnamannen, Lovund, Vegafjellet and Søla.

• The experience to live life as it was previously.

• Your own room with bed-linen, towels and a good night’s sleep beneath a real eider down duvet, handmade on Lånan.

Please contact us for pricing and more information.

New: We now also offer guided tours for small groups who wish to go on day trips to the islands in May and June. From June 23rd, we cater to larger groups who wish to stay overnight. Contact us or Vega tourist office for booking.