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.

Highlights and Places in Iceland

Reykjanes - Your first stop in Iceland.

The Town of Reykjanes

town of Reykjanesbaer

Your first stop in Iceland.

is an attractive town located at the Reykjanes peninsula in southwest of Iceland. It was established in the year 1994 when Keflavík, Njarðvík and Hafnir merged into one municipality, and now bears the name as the capital of Reykjanes. The Town of Reykjanes is only a few minutes drive from Iceland's international airport, with the famous Blue Lagoon in the neighbourhood. But the unique geothermal spa is not the only thing that awaits the traveller, because the area is known for its amazing natural beauty, variety of out-door activities, a lively atmosphere and fine service for tourists.

Surrounded by lava fields, mountains and rugged wilderness, the area is very interesting to explore and ideal for walking tours. The Town of Reykjanes offers series of sightseeing trips around the area and a map with various hiking tours is available. The rocky coastline is also a magnificent natural attraction worth visiting with its amazing view and spectacular cliffs where thousands of seabirds live and breed. The Town of Reykjanes also offers a variety of
organized sailing tours where you can spot whales and dolphins in their natural environment as well as going deep-sea angling and cruise to the island Eldey, which is home to the worlds biggest gannet colony.

Geothermally wonderful

For those who want to practice sports, one of Iceland's best golf courses, Leira, is in
the environs? plus outdoor swimming pools with hot tubs. The pools are open all year around and the water is geothermally heated, making use of the natural resource that
exists in the area.

A journey through time

Enjoy a historical journey in a classic example of the roughly built turf, stone and timber
cottage type houses once common on the Reykjanes penisula. Following its restoration Stekkjarkot provides a telling insight into how houses of this type looked.

Duus Art Center

The cluster of buildings that make up Duus Art Center are among Iceland´s most remarkable and historic man-made structures. Today the complex includes three exhibition centres:

The Reykjanes Maritime Museum: model collection of captein Grímur Karlsson

Museum of Art: regular art exhibitions

Museum of Heritage: exhibitions from the region´s history

Between two worlds

Out to sea, the jagged lines of the Reykjanes Ridge, one of the world's major fault lines, disappear abruptly beneath the waves past the flat-topped island of Eldey, while ashore on the valley floor, the tectonic plates of Eurasia and North America split, the Old World meets the New, and the visitor can, quite literally, stand astride two continents.

The possibilities are endless. The viking ship Íslendingur, the stone church in Njarðvík as well as various interesting museums, fine restaurants and quality hotels and guesthouse accommodations are only a few examples of what the town has to offer. It is guaranteed that everyone should find something of interest in the town of Reykjanes.

Tourist Information Center
Hafnargata 57
230 Reykjanesbær
Iceland
Tel. 421 6777