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.

Art and Souvenirs

Alvörubúðin - Eyravegur 3 Selfoss, tel. 482 4410

We make various kinds of embroidery items based on old Icelandic tradition. We also make embroidery kits for beginners. We sell quality Icelandic crafts f.ex. from the famous south Iceland woolcenter in Þingborg. We import directly high quality Indian handcrafts.

Art Gallery Fold has the finest selection of contemporary Icelandic art available in Iceland. Located at the two biggest shopping areas Art Gallery Fold makes it easy for everyone to enjoy and acquire Icelandic contemporary art. We pride ourselves in selling good art by recognized Icelandic artists at a reasonable price.

In her inviting workshop and gallery, located on Skólavörðustígur - in the midst of Reykjavik's flourishing art district, Kolbrún S. Kjarval dedicates herself to her passion of ceramics. And birds. In her work, which ranges from the most delicate pieces to big beautiful vases and bowls, the bird theme is always present.

	Galleri Smidja is locaded in a shopping center in Hveragerdi, one of Icelands most interesting town only 40 kilometers away from Reykjavík. In Galleri Smidja you can have unique hand made silver jewelry, glasswork and ceramics made by the artist Hrönn Waltersdóttir among many other various things and all on a reasonable prices
Opening hours: Mon-Thu: 12 pm - 6 pm, Fri & Sat: 11 am - 6 pm, Sun: 12 pm 4 pm

Leaving Reykjavík and venturing out into the unspoilt beauty of Icelandic nature does not mean leaving civilisation behind – or luxury at that. Akureyri, the capital of the northern part of the country, has a brand new jewellery store which opened in October 2004. The only store of its kind in the northern regions, Studio 6 offers Northerners jewellery at its best.

	The heart of Iceland´s Christmas can be found at this year-round Christmas shop in the center of Reykjavík. Wheather it is quality imports from all over the world or unique Icelandic handicrafts Iceland´s House of Christmas strives to offer only the best of the best.
Opening hours: Mon-Fri: 10 pm - 6 pm, & Sat: 11 am - 4 pm, Sun: closed

IÐA is a spacious and contemporary, independently run bookshop, stocking a range of Icelandic and English language paperbacks, travel literature, magazines and an excellent selection of photography books with great pictures of Iceland and Icelandic nature and wildlife.

Located in the shopping mall Kringlan, Islandia’s ambition is to provide anything Icelandic the tourist might desire. But it is not solely a souvenir shop for visitors - locals also frequent the premises in search of gifts in form of splendid Icelandic artwork. From miniature Vikings to paintings by Icelandic artists, everything in the store is associated to Iceland in some way.

If you are looking for a truly Icelandic experience, what better place is there than the National Museum? Its recently renovatedpremises, close to the University of Iceland, also hold the new and alluring museum store - a destination in its own right. The store has an air of culture and education about it.

The West Nordic Culture House is in an old forge, which has recently been renovated. It has a museum store and it serves the purpose of enhancing the cultural co-operation between the West Nordic countries, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Iceland. It also places an emphasis on introducing the cultural inheritance of the countries.