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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.

Jewelry and Accessories

Lára gullsmiður - Skólavörðustíg 10 Reykjavík, tel. 561 1300

Lára gullsmiður

Lara Gullsmidur

The first ever woman to open a jewellery store in Iceland – without having a jeweller father, grandfather or brother– celebrates her 30th year in the profession this year. She is, however, starting a family tradition of her own: Lára’s son can be seen at work in a corner of the boutique at Skólavörðustígur.

Never afraid to explore new paths in her designs, Lára has created a broad range of different and diverse pieces of jewellery. During her 30 year journey through different styles, and fascination with different types of material, she has always remained loyal to her favorites: the Icelandic opal and basalt – which she calls the diamonds of Iceland. The basalt she uses comes from the lagoon beneath Snæfellsjökull – a mystery place made famous by Jules Verne – and from Vatnajökull.

The goldsmith is especially fond of rings that are a couple of sizes larger than the traditional gold and silver jewellery – rings that truly are eye-catching works of art. In later years she has also experimented with traditional Viking jewellery, changing the ancient forms and giving them new functions. She has transformed a piece traditionally used to pin together a mantle to a necklace, adding Icelandic stones for adornment.

Whether you want diamonds or Lára’s Icelandic diamonds – the opal and basalt – this store, like its products, will claim your attention.

Lára gullsmiður
Skólavörðustíg 10
101 Reykjavík
tel. 561 1300