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

The national museum’s store - Sudurgata 41 Reykjavík, tel. 530 2200

The national museum’s store

A destination in its own right.

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. In its beautiful setting it offers handmade works of art by various artist.

The store, which was launched last year, has been well received by the public. Its most popular products are the museum's own production: souvenirs of great diversity, all closely linked to the museum's collections. There are some 35 pieces available, ranging from notebooks and T-shirts to more expensive products such as brass wine corks and jewelry. The line also includes around 50 new designs of postcards. The toys available in the store are quite interesting and mostly reproductions of vintage toys.

When talking of the cultural heritage of Icelanders, it is inevitable that the country's literature will be mentioned. Iceland has an astonishingly vast literature and literary culture for such a small country. From the Icelandic sagas - studied and admired worldwide - to a Nobel prize winner, Icelandic literature is internationally acclaimed. The National Museum's store has a vast and diverse selection of books that are all conncected to the Icelandic culture, heritage and language in some way.

The store is open during the Museum's opening times.

The national museum’s store
Sudurgata 41
101 Reykjavík
tel. 530 2200