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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.

in Focus

13.4.2007

Reykjavík Domestic Airport to be Moved?

Reykjavík domestic airport to be moved A group of experts appointed by the Transport Minister and Reykjavík’s mayor to evaluate the location of Reykjavík domestic airport, has concluded that it is best to move it to Hólmsheidi, east of the city.

The report, which has not been made public yet, stated that it is disadvantageous to keep the airport in its current location in Vatnsmýri in central Reykjavík, Fréttabladid reports.

The group suggested the airport could be moved to the heath Hólmsheidi, near the lake Raudavatn, located on the eastern limits of the city. The group also suggested the airport could be moved to Keflavík, where Iceland’s international airport is located.

But more transport costs would be involved in having the domestic airport for Reykjavík in Keflavík, as Keflavík is further outside the city than Hólmsheidi, so the group concluded Hólmsheidi is the better option.

According to the report, Reykjavík City could make tens of billions (ISK 1 billion = USD 15 million EUR 11 million) on moving the airport from Vatnsmýri, because the land on which it stands is a valuable construction area.

The area is 134 hectares in size and the city could use approximately 123 hectares thereof for apartment construction. The rest has been reserved for the University of Iceland.

Minister of Transport Sturla Bödvarsson and Mayor of Reykjavík Vilhjálmur Th. Vilhjálmsson have not yet signed the report and it is unclear when it will be presented to the public.

Source: Iceland Review (www.icelandreview.com).

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