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.
The Traveller’s Day will be held Thursday 19th April, the First Day of Summer according to the old Icelandic calendar. This special day will be dedicated to the tourism industry and travel-related leisure activities in the Reykjavík Capital Area.
The objective of Traveller’s Day is to introduce local residents to all the delightful activities on offer for tourists, such as guided walking tours, horse riding or museum-visiting. In this way residents are encouraged to view their own surroundings with the eyes of a tourist and to explore previously unknown sides of the travel industry. Simultaneously, the importance of tourism as an industry is highlighted.
It comes without saying that all tourists, Icelandic and foreign alike, are welcome to enjoy the programme on Traveller's day.
The Traveller’s Day programme is family-oriented, exciting and inexpensive. Different leisure activities will be offered at discounted prices (or for free) and most will be free for children accompanied by adults.
Activities on offer include ATV driving, whale-watching, horse riding tours, boat trips, various walks in and around Reykjavik and much, much more.
Access the Traveller's Day programme
For further information:
Reykjavik Tourist Information
Adalstraeti 2
IS-101 Reykjavik
Tel: + 354 590 1550
E-mail: info@visitreykjavik.is
Website: www.visitreykjavik.is