Is this the world's greatest commute?

One of the most beautiful roads in the world can now be experienced from the comfort of your arm chair.

Norway’s revered Atlantic Ocean Road (or “Atlanterhavsveien”) offers a scenic journey through an archipelago of partially inhabited islands and islets off the west coast of Norway.

Promising vanishing horizons, vertiginous mountains and tranquil coastlines – dotted with sleepy fishing villages – this calming commute across causeways, viaducts and eight bridges (including the striking Storseisundet Bridge) can now be experienced via an interactive 360-degree video.

The film allows users to explore views from various angles using arrows that shift the camera up and down or to the right or left.

The 5.2 mile-long (8.3km) section of the County Road 64 route begins in the village of Kårvåg on the island of Averøy, passing through Hustadvika (an unsheltered stretch considered to be one of the most dangerous parts of the Norwegian coast), which connects Averøy with the mainland and the Romsdalshalvøya peninsula, before reaching the village of Vevang on Eide.

The 260m-long Storseisundet Bridge features on the drive Credit: Confused.com/Flickr

The scenic road offers soothing views of vanishing horizons with mountains in the distance

With a maximum gradient of eight per cent, the route has four resting and viewing points, and passes several tourist sites on the way, including fishing villages and scuba diving resorts, such as Håholmen and Strømsholmen, which offer boat trips in the summer.

Completed in 1989 and costing nearly 122 million Norwegian krone (£12m) to build, the cultural heritage site was hit with 12 hurricanes during its construction, and is one of the country’s designated 18 National Tourist Routes and was deemed to be the country’s “engineering feat of the century” in 2005.

The route passes several tourist sites including sleepy fishing villages Credit: Confused.com/Flickr

The interactive video of the route, released by Confused.com, follows a survey by the car insurance website of 2,000 Britons who drive to work regularly which revealed that more than half (52 per cent) would like a better drive to work, while two in five (40 per cent) would change their job for a better commute.

Home to some of the world’s most beautiful landscapes, Norway was named the ‘world’s happiest country’ in this year’s World Happiness Report, rising from fourth place in last year’s rankings and having topped the Legatum Institute’s Prosperity Index for two consecutive years in 2013 and 2014.

(THE TELEGRAPH)