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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

30.4.2007

Iceland's Novator to Sell 65 Percent Stake in BTC

Iceland's Novator to sell 65 percent stake in BTC The Icelandic investment company Novator, owned by Icelandic entrepreneur Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson, is about to sell its 65 stake in the Bulgarian telecommunications company BTC.

According to Fréttabladid, the sale is estimated to be worth EUR 1.3 billion (USD 1.8 billion). Novator’s information officer Ásgeir Fridgeirsson reports that the sale is in its final stages and will be completed after one week.

Fridgeirsson said Novator is not withdrawing from investment in Eastern Europe, as was recently reported in Forbes.

Björgólfsson also has holdings in telecommunication companies in Finland, Poland, the Czech Republic and Greece.

Björgólfsson recently sold a 10.8 percent stake in the Greek company Forthnet, an investment which was considered to have increased in value by 400 percent since its acquisition it in December 2005.

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

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