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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.

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Ingólfsskáli - Efstalandi, Tel. 483 4160

Ingólfsskáli

ingolfsskali

Authentic taste of a viking feast, experienced in an ancient atmosphere.

According to Icelandic history, the first permanent settler in Iceland was Ingólfur Arnarsson. He made his home in Reykjavík and nine centuries later, the first urban community in Iceland grew up in the same place and evolved into the country´s capital. The ancient manuscript “The Book Of Settlements” by Ari Fróði (Ari the Wise) accounts, that on his way to Reykjavík, Ingólfur Arnarsson had a winter sojourn by a mountain which today is simply called Ingólfsfjall (the mountain of Ingolfur). According to an old folklore, Ingólfur is buried on the top of the mountain in a dolerite mound named Inghóll. It is told that that once every summer, the mound opens and by that moment you can get close to the jewelries buried with the settler.

If you drive by the highway no. 1, Ingólfsfjall can be found about 45 km east of Reykjavík. By the foothills of the dignified mountain the remarkable restaurant Ingólfsskáli (Ingolf Hall) is operated. It is built in the authentic style of an ancient Icelandic turf house of the viking era, which means that all foreign visitors can expect a unique experience and anticiptaion for a relly patriotic menu Icelandic style.

The All-Icelandic cuisine at Ingólfsskáli is mostly based on raw-material from lamb or diverse fowl and fish species. The specialty of the the house is a specific “Vikingmeal” with courses made of lamb and a fish which are hay-smoked by the original method in special smoke-sheds. Those meals can also consist of real, unsmoked lamb-shanks with the bone included, but such presentation was very common amongst ancient vikings. All the servants at Ingólfsskáli are dressed up in harmony with the curious environment.

About 200-250 people can be seated in the restaurant at Ingólfsskáli. Upon request, special happenings can be arranged before or after any viking feast. They can include receptions made by actors performing as fully dressed vikings or renowned acoustic musicians playing authentic icelandic folksongs.