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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

Glitnir Bank Nominated for FT Sustainable Banking Awards

Glitnir Bank nominated for FT Sustainable Banking Iceland-based Glitnir Bank has been nominated for the 2007 Financial Times Sustainable Banking Awards in the category “Sustainable Deal of the Year” for it’s participation in a geothermal heating system project in China.

Glitnir Bank was short-listed along with four other nominees; Deutsche Bank/Goldman Sachs for an international finance facility for immunization, Industrial Bank, China, for financing products for energy efficiency projects, Kookmin Bank, South Korea for a transit system and WestLB, Germany, for an industrial waste treatment plant in Mexico. The awards will be announced at a special ceremony in London in June.

In 2006 Glitnir Bank played a key part in developing a district-heating system for Xian Yang city in China, as described in a press release issued by the bank. The project was the first undertaken by the recently founded Shaanxi Green Energy, owned by Enex-China and Shaanxi CGCOC Energy Development Construction LTD. Enex-China is owned by Enex, a conglomerate of the Icelandic energy utility, Reykjavík Energy Company (OR) and Glitnir Bank.

The FT Sustainable Banking Awards were created in 2006 by the UK business newspaper Financial Times and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to recognize banks that have shown leadership and innovation in integrating social, environmental and corporate governance objectives into their operations.

About Glitnir Bank
Glitnir is an Nordic banking group with operations in five countries. The bank is a comprehensive financial company, providing extensive services in the field of investment banking activities, lending and general bank business. The company is listed on the Icelandic Stock Exchange.

For further information on Glitnir visit the bank's website, www.glitnir.is.

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