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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.

Cafés and Bars

Café Paris - Austurstræti 14 Reykjavik, Tel. 551 1020

Café Paris – A Model Restaurant

Café Paris

Café Paris is a nice and warm place to visit for refreshments, light meals, home made cakes and bread.

The restaurant has the best spot in Reykjavík, is dead center downtown in Austurstræti across from Landsbankinn on the one side and Austurvöllur where Alþingi (Icelandic Parliament) is situated on the other. It opens early in the morning and closes late at night. During the day the guests come for the wide range of coffee drinks, beer or something stronger. The guests come from all walks of life. Students and artists are common guests. The light meals attract people who work close to Café Paris and tourists. After seven o´clock p.m. a slight transition occurs and the restaurant changes its complexion and becomes more of a cozy bar where you can buy beer, red and white wines and stronger drinks.

For a coffee shop the menu is unusually diverse, the light meals are very popular, e.g. the various salads, French pancakes, quiche, quesadillas, grilled tuna sandwiches etc. And of course the coffee is superb.

Café Paris is a perfect place to go to, the service is good and you can watch the buzzing downtown crowd go by. In the summer time when the sun shines Café Paris becomes an outdoor restaurant also. Café Paris was established in 1992 and has become a fixture in the downtown atmosphere. Café Paris has been called the „model coffee shop” in a review of coffee restaurants in downtown Reykjavík.