Here's our experience with the Greenhouse Hotel Iceland in Hveragerdi and why South Iceland is the perfect destination for adventurous travelers!
True Wind Healing Travel is a solo female travel blog, featuring northern Akureyri Iceland Travel Guide with photos & videos.
The country of fire and ice is on almost everyone’s bucket list, and with Wow Air and other short-haul European carriers offering inexpensive flights, who can blame them for flocking to this …
True Wind Healing Travel is a solo female travel blog, featuring northern Akureyri Iceland Travel Guide with photos & videos.
Kvernufoss waterfall is one of the most beautiful places in Iceland -- yet this waterfall is a hidden gem that doesn't get tons of visitors.
Our amazing travel guide covers the top 29 places you must visit on an Iceland vacation (including photos of each stop)!
Visit Akureyri. If you have a chance to get to Iceland's 2nd largest city, do it. Here's our tips for how to spend 24 hours in Akureyri.
My first venture abroad was Iceland. It was 1975 and I was nineteen. My memory of the trip is dominated by weather. The sky, the wind, and the light all made a strong impression. Weather simply had…
Located on the beautiful Snæfellsness Peninsula, this beautiful church is often overlooked. Most people simply visit Búðakirkja and Kirkjufellsfoss. But this Peninsula has a lot more to offer and actually holds two of these hidden gems in Iceland!
Photography Around Iceland That Will Inspire You To Go. A Land of Ice and Fire Thousands of years of clashing oceans and volcanic activity have moulded the land that is now known as Iceland (island - Icelandic). And that has not yet ceased; as the volcanoes are still very active, roughly erupting every 4 years or so, Iceland's land mass is changing and growing. Scattered with multiple glaciers, moss fields, hot pots and too many waterfalls to count, it's no wonder Iceland has quickly escalated and established itself as a well-known tourist destination. I was lucky enough to spend almost
On my first trip to Iceland, in 1986, my husband and I visited the families of three Icelandic graduate students we knew from Penn State University, where I worked: an economist, a seismologist, an…
A guide to the best Iceland photography locations from Reykjavik to Hofn and all the waterfalls and landscapes including Jokulsarlon Lagoon + Skogafoss
Our amazing travel guide covers the top 29 places you must visit on an Iceland vacation (including photos of each stop)!
Discover everything you need to know about visiting Iceland in October, including things to do, how to see the northern lights, and what the weather is like.
Icelandic authors write for an audience of roughly 360,000 people. They are, in many ways, hopeless romantics, writing in a tiny tongue that both matters immensely and not at all. If these authors …
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LOOK: Iceland Shines In Marvelous Aerial Photos
By the year 1200, after centuries of raiding and settlement, Iceland had become the Vikings’ principal outpost in the North Atlantic. This island, which gently brushes the Arctic Circle at Grimsey …
Have you eve seen a canyon so beautiful? Fjaðrárgljúfur is a canyon in south east Iceland that's known for its breathtaking beauty. It's up to 330 feet
While on a recent trip to Iceland, photographer Sarah Martinet had the opportunity to shoot these amazing landscapes from a plane with open windows. You can see much more of her work (as well as more from this trip) on 500px and Facebook. More
In 1701, Copenhagen was a burgeoning city fortress of 60,000, a seaside capital enclosed by canals and high walls with just four gates. The streets were narrow and crowded, lined on each side by cr…
From shopping and eating to parking and Wi-Fi, this is everything you need to know about navigating Reykjavik-Keflavik Airport.
True Wind Healing Travel is a solo female travel blog, featuring northern Akureyri Iceland Travel Guide with photos & videos.
Discover the top 20 festivals in Iceland. Learn about the best music festivals, arts festivals and the most fun country fairs to attend in Iceland.
CHICAGO — WOW Air has added Chicago as its newest American destination, with flights starting at $99 from O’Hare International Airport to Iceland. The leg of the return flight is more expensive. The cheapest round-trip flights are $269 from Chicago to Iceland and $339 from Chicago to Paris, including a connection at the airline’s Icelandic […]
Visiting Blue Lagoon, Iceland may be the one of the most iconic place you can go in Iceland, and is deservedly a must see!
No one can deny it...Iceland is a massive hot destination right now. Iceland trip cost can also be massive! From gorgeous waterfalls to epic sunrises, you can't go wrong with an Iceland family holiday. It
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Iceland's Golden Circle Route is the most popular tourist attraction and for good reason. In a day's drive out of Reykjavik you cover some amazing sights!
Landmannalaugar is a region near the volcano Hekla in the southern part of Iceland's highlands. The Landmannalaugar area is a popular tourist destination and hiking hub in Iceland's highlands. The area displays a number of unusual geological elements, like the multicolored rhyolite mountains and expansive lava fields, not far from the service center. The many mountains in the surrounding area display a wide spectrum of colors including pink, brown, green, yellow, blue, purple, black, and white. Two of the most popular mountains among hikers are Bláhnjúkur (meaning "blue peak") and Brennisteinsalda (meaning "sulphur wave"). Landmannalaugar is famous for its hiking trails. The most popular routes include the 2 hour hike through the Laugahraun lava field to Mt. Brennisteinsalda ("Sulphur Wave"), the 1 hour hike up Mt. Bláhnjúkur ("Blue Peak") and the 4 hour hike to Ljótipollur crater lake ("Ugly Puddle"). Landmannalaugar can also be the starting point of several longer hiking trails, such as the 3-4 day Hellismannaleið hike by the roots of Hekla volcano and Sprengisandur route for the people who are willing to rough it through the immense volcanic desert. Landmannalaugar is the usual starting point for a four day long hiking trail aptly called Laugavegur, as the main shopping street in Reykjavík city center is called the same and is referred to the herds of people that walk the trail every day. The name actually means "The Landmannalaugar Trail", "Laugar" being a shortened version for "Landmannalaugar". The usual four day trail ends in Þórsmörk, but one or two days can be added, trekking then all the way to Skógar nearly at the coast via Fimmvörðuháls between the two glaciers Eyjafjallajökull and Mýrdalsjökull. (Wikipedia) ----- I returned to Iceland for my third time there to hike the world’s famous Laugavegurinn (Laugavegur) trek combined with its Fimmvörðuháls hiking neighbour; we went in the south-to-north direction starting in Skógar and finishing our journey in the colorful Landmannalaugar area. The itinerary was rather straightforward and not surprising: Skógar -> Fimmvörðuháls -> Þórsmörk -> Emstrur (Botnar) -> Álftavatn -> Hrafntinnusker -> Landmannalaugar. We were quite lucky with the weather except for the Emstrur -> Álftavatn part when we experienced the most horrible weather I have ever encountered during my hiking trips – really strong wind and constant rain made from this part a “survival” odyssey. It is often said that weather is a crucial factor in this hike and our experience from this particular day (and also from the other – beautiful – days) just confirmed that. This is a shot taken during our final day walk around the beautiful and colorful Landmannalaugar area.
There are few other places in the world with such breathtaking landscapes. Places seemingly made for the patient long-exposure photographer.
Includes volcano dream as symbols of emotional pressure, violent emotions, instability, Divine power, the relationship between volcano dreams and one's ex. Also includes some volcano mythology, and volcano archetypes.
Free online Iceland Travel Guide - maps, places to visit, things to do, off the beaten track options, photos and planning information
Around 18 percent of Iceland's tomatoes come from Friðheimar, which harvests 370 tons of the fruit each year.
Reykjavík is more than just Iceland's biggest city. It's Iceland's only city. Really, even calling it a "city" feels like an affront to its spirit. Despite claiming two-thirds of the country's total population, Reykjavík is closer to an overgrown village than a major European capital.
