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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

23.4.2007

Icelander Wins Goldman Environmental Prize

Orri Vigfússon, a businessman and head of the Protection Fund for Wild Salmon (NAFS), will receive the Goldman Environmental Prize in San Francisco for his fight to protect wild salmon in the North Atlantic.

According to Morgunbladid, Vigfússon will receive USD 125,000 (EUR 92,000) in recognition of his work. He is the first representative from the field of economy to receive the award.

“I have always said that this has to be organized so that everyone will profit – the net fishers should also profit. If the salmon stocks disappear, everyone will lose,” Vigfússon said.

Since 1989, NAFS has raised more than ISK 2 billion (USD 31.9 million, EUR 22.8 million) and has used the money to buy nets used for salmon fishing in the North Atlantic. It is believed that net fishing has dropped by more than 75 percent since then.

Vigfússon said the North Atlantic salmon’s future becomes brighter every month. “In my mind there is no doubt that we have the answer to the salmon’s problem. We only have to execute it.”

The Goldman Prize, nicknamed “The Nobel Prize for Environment Protection” is given to six individuals each year for outstanding achievement in protecting the environment.

Established in 1990 by Richard and Rhoda Goldman, it is the world's largest prize honoring grassroots environmentalists.

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

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