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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

29.5.2007

Tourist Association Hikes to Iceland’s Highest Peak

Tourist Association hikes to Iceland's highest peak Over 100 hikers took part in the Icelandic Tourist Associations (FÍS) annual Whitsun trip to Hvannadalshnjúkur, Iceland’s highest peak, on Saturday. The group was split between 13 guides, who led the hikers up the mountain slope.

Hvannadalshnjúkur was hidden behind low hanging clouds and snowfall caused poor visibility, but the hikers made it to the top anyway.

“It is incredible to have achieved this and I believe many other first-timers agree,” Erna B. Einarsdóttir, who hiked to Iceland’s highest peak for the first time on Saturday, told Fréttabladid.

This is the third time FÍ has organized a hike to Hvannadalshnjúkur during the Whitsun weekend. According to Einarsdóttir, more applied for the hike than in the last two years and the available spaces were taken by the beginning of April.

Hvannadalshnjúkur is located on the north-western rim of the Öraefajökull volcano on Vatnajökull glacier in southeast Iceland. The peak is 2,109.6 meters high.

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

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