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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

15.4.2007

Eric Clapton will this Summer be Catching Salmon in Laxá in Ásar

The legendary blues-rock guitarist Eric Clapton will be catching salmon in the well known Icelandic salmon river Laxá in Ásar in the coming summer. It is Mr. Árni Baldursson of Lax-á Ltd. who organizes Clapton’s visit, as he has done often before. “Yes, this is correct. Eric Clapton will be here this summer enjoying angling in his usual river. He will spend a week there, to relax and enjoy himself,” Árni says to the correspondent of the Icelandic Frettabladid newspaper, but declines from telling at what date Clapton will be arriving in Iceland.

Eric Clapton has visited the banks of the Laxá in Ásar river every summer since the year 2000. Árni comments that the celebrated guitarist is an adept and clever angling fisher, and follows the rule of letting most of the fishes he catches free into the river again. “He sets free about 95% of the salmons he has caught. “But once in a while he brings one or two to the hunting lodge where they are charbroiled for dinner. He does eat salmon,” Árni says.

Eric Clapton is one of the world’s most popular musicians and his wealth is in accordance with that. Thus, he can allow himself a luxury that few rod-angling enthusiasts in Iceland’s salmon rivers know, which is to relieve the river from catching for a few days before he arrives with his rod. “Yes, it is right that he ordered a few extra days before to rest the stream. He wants to come to a fresh start with the river and its fish in a good condition,” Árni says.

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