Welcome to Iceland Guest - Your Online Travel Guide.

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

5.5.2007

Iceland's Kari Stefansson on Time list of World's Most Influential People

Mr. Kari Stefansson, CEO of deCODE Genetics, is on the list of the 100 Most Influential People in The World, which was published on May 4 by the Time Magazine. deCODE Genetics, located in Iceland's capital Reykjavik, is a biopharmaceutical company that applies its discoveries in human genetics to develop drugs and diagnostics for diseases. The influential people on the magazine's list this year are divided into several subgroups, namely Artists and Entertainers, Leaders and Revolutionaries, Builders and Titans, Heroes and Pioneers and Scientists and Thinkers, the last of which Mr. Stefansson belongs to.

Among other individuals in the Scientists and Thinkers group are Al Gore, environmental thinker and former Vice President of the United States, astrophysicist and Nobel prizewinner John Mather, biologist Elizabeth Blackburn, the evolutionary biologist and author Richard Dawkins, and Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft.

The list of the 100 Most Influential contains 26 women.

To read the Time's report on Mr. Kari Stefansson click here.

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