Welcome to Iceland Guest - Your Online Travel Guide.

Iceland Guest is an information website for your travel to Iceland. On this site you can get all the tourist information you need for your vacation in Iceland. We hope that you will find this online travel guide useful in planning your holidays in Iceland.

About Iceland
Iceland is a refreshingly unconventional travel destination. The Icelandic nature is unspoilt, exotic and mystical with its spouting geysers, active volcanoes, tumbling waterfalls, towering mountains, vast lava plains and magical lakes. Iceland’s fjords, glaciers and highland plains present visitors with some of the most beautiful and enchanting places they will ever see, as well as a rare feeling of utter tranquillity.

For travelers on a quest for action, Iceland’s pristine nature offers great potential for outdoor activities such as snowmobiling, horse riding, cave exploring, hiking, swimming, skiing, river rafting, kayaking and mountain safaris on modified four-wheel drives, to name but a few. Iceland supports a surprisingly diverse Nordic flora and fauna and is an ideal place for ornithology enthusiasts, while also offering some of the world’s best whale watching destinations.

About Reykjavik
Reykjavík sometimes feels like a cosmopolitan capital and a tiny seaside village - all wrapped up in one. But Reykjavík has the best of both worlds; the qualities of a modern, forward-looking society complemented by a close connection to Iceland‚s beautiful and unspoilt nature.

Reykjavík’s legendary nightlife is bolstered by plentiful cultural and social happenings in addition to an abundance of first-class restaurants. The size of Reykjavik city centre is also limited enough to allow for easy navigation by foot. Reykjavík has been described as a young and daring city that is characterized by strong contrasts. Conveniently small, clean and safe, it is more or less free from the major problems that haunt many other capitals. Big city events are frequent, the winter lights festival finished recently with thousands of participants and more tourist at this time of the year than we are used to.

Museum and Culture

The Icelandic Saga Centre - Hvolsvöllur, Tel. 487 8781

The Saga Centre in Hvolsvöllur

The Icelandic Saga Centre

A trip into the middle Ages through the Sagas.

The Saga Centre in Hvolsvöllur was opened in 1997 and the guests are offered a guided tour through the exhibition on the Njál´s Saga and the viking age. In the heart of the building there is a reconstruction of a medieval hall.

From the time they adopted the Latin alphabet in the twelfth century the Icelanders have been prodigious writers and record keepers. Njál´s Saga is by far the longest of the forty family sagas written in Iceland in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and and over the years it has proved to be the favorite. The saga teems with life and action, with memorable and complex characters from the heroic Gunnar of Hlíðarendi , a warrior without equal who dislikes killing, to his friend Njáll, known for his wisdom, his gift at prophecy and his skill in law and we must not forget the women, Hallgerður, Gunnar´s beautiful and dangerous wife or Hildigunnur who is the primus motor behind the great burning of house and people in the late part of the Njál´s Saga.

Why not take a trip through the medieval world in the Saga Centre and meet "the complication of goodwill and ill-fate, wisdom and failure" as one of Iceland's most famous scholars described the world of Njál´s Saga.