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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

7.5.2007

Live Earth Concert in Reykjavík?

Live Earth concert in Reykjavík A series of concerts to support environmental issues entitled Live Earth will be held in several cities across the globe on July 7. One of the concerts may be held Reykjavík if the government decides to support it financially.

“I sent a request for support to the Prime Minister’s Office in early January, but I have not received any answers,” Kári Sturluson, the “ambassador” of Live Earth in Iceland, told Fréttabladid.

“We have not taken a stand against the issue and the support is still being discussed,” said Ragnheidur Elín Árnadóttir, assistant to the prime minister, adding that it is not usually the government’s role to sponsor concerts.

According to Sturluson, the organizers of Live Earth, some of whom took part in organizing the Live 8 concerts in 2005, would like one of the concerts to take place in Reykjavík because of Iceland’s music reputation, its nature and the harnessing of environmentally friendly energy.

It is expected that two billion people will watch the concerts.

The cost of the Live Earth concerts are estimated at ISK 80 million (USD 1.3 million, EUR 920,000) and Sturluson has requested a support of ISK 15 (USD 240,000, EUR 170,000) million from the government.

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

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