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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

20.4.2007

Reykjavik Airport is in a Prime Spot

Reykjavik airport is in a prime spot The current location of Reykjavik airport in Vatnsmýrin, less than a kilometer south of the city center, is highly beneficial for air transportation between rural Iceland and its capital, but the land which the large airfield occupies is extremely valuable as a building location. This opinion is stated in a new joint report issued by the Icelandic Minister of Transport and the Mayor of Reykjavik.

The task of the committee formed by the two was to do a broad evaluation of the airport in terms of aeronautical, administrative and physical planning issues. Icelandic and international specialists were hired to do professional assessments in various fields of the project.

In its conclusions, the committee says that it is urgent to establish a policy regarding the future of the Reykjavik airport. Prolonged uncertainty in these matters is a great disadvantage for all parties with vested interested, and that uncertainty must disappear.

The basic option is that the airport remains in its place, except that the north-east by south-west airstrip would be shut down. Other options that were evaluated were three different propositions on an altered location of airstrips in the Vatnsmýrin area. It is believed that the utilization ratio of the airport can be 98%, or the same as today's two airstrips are currently.

Three additional options are evaluated in the report. An entirely new airport on Hólmsheidi heath, east of Reykjavik near lake Raudavatn, or on Löngusker, which are skerries that lie in the middle of Skerjafjördur fjord less than a kilometer west-south-west from today's airport. The latter would call for considerable landfill to be built. The third option is to move the domestic air services to Keflavik International Airport on the furthest part of Reykjanes peninsula, approximately 40 km west of Reykjavik. The utilization ratio of an airport on Hólmsheidi is belived to be 95%, although it is not entirely clear since no research has taken place in that location. Löngusker skerries are believed to offer the utilization rate of 98% of today's airport.

The committee does not conclude that an airport might be built in Afstapahraun lava field, about 15 km west of Reykjavik, except if the domestic flight would be moved to Keflavik airport. In that case, a new alternate airport would be built at Bakki, in Landeyjar of South-Iceland.

Read the news: Reykjavík Domestic Airport to be Moved?

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