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Most people visiting Iceland have heard about the ever so popular Golden Circle tour, which traditionally entails Þingvellir national park, Geysir geothermal area, and Gullfoss waterfall. But did you know that another tour is available; the Hidden Circle? I call it the Golden Circle with a very pleasant twist :) In this travel-blog, I am going to show you what sets the Hidden Circle apart from the regular Golden Circle tours. Opening photo: Háifoss waterfall

This july I took my daughter for an adventure trip. She's eight years old and we set a few goals for our trip. We'd play chess in a beautiful place, we'd bathe in geothermal pools, we'd discover places we didn't know about and we'd search for a few geocaches. What's geocache? Geocache is a game of sorts. It's a community driven treasure hunt where interested people hide and maintain so called caches in places all around the world. The idea is that searching for those caches will lead you to pl

Drangsnes is a lovely little fishing village at Strandir on the eastern part of the Westfjords of Iceland, just 30 km away from Hólmavík village. At Drangsnes you will find 3 hot tubs by the sea just as you enter the village. The hot tubs have become the main attraction of the village, together with Grímsey islands and the pillar of rock a little further on, which is one of the trolls, who wanted to divide the Westfjords

Icelandic folklore contains a lot of elf- and troll stories and I have shown you many such locations in my travel-blog. A well-known Icelandic troll story tells us about the 3 trolls who wanted to sever the Westfjords from the mainland of Iceland and keep the Westfjords as troll country. While staying at Kirkjuból at Strandir for 3 days I visited 2 of the trolls. I had already visited the 3rd troll on several occasions, but that troll is to be found across Steingrímsfj

I got the opportunity to stay at Kirkjuból at Strandir in the Westfjords of Iceland, when my husband was taking part for 3 days in the children's festival Náttúrubarnahátíð  at Sauðfjársetur – the Sheep Farming Museum at Strandir. All the time during this wonderful children‘s festival we stayed at the guesthouse Kirkjuból and got to know the family who lives there and runs both the festival and the Sheep Farming M

Hello to all! In this blog I talk about the Northern Lights, a beautiful phenomenon that nature offer us! First of all, the Northern Lights in Iceland are not visible throughout the year, but from mid-August to the end of March / beginning of April.  All this due to the hours of light in Iceland from April to August (practically the sky is never dark!). However, during the Northern Lights season, my advice on the first thing to do is never be sure to warn.   Because the No

Iceland is one of the top destinations for international tourists, and you can expect more foreigners than the locals. Iceland has a huge wealth of nature and wonders that attract so many visitors. At some point, the number of tourists was five times as many as that of locals.   The numbers tell you that there must be something that attracts almost everyone to Iceland. And we are going to look at some of the things that make the country unique and the number one tourist destination prefer

With Adventures: Endgame, Detective Pikachu and ToyStory 4 making 2019 an explosive year for cinema, visiting a small, alternative theatre for an edgy foreign film or independent movie may not be the top of everyone’s agenda. With the current screening going on at Bío Paradís, however, anyone in Reykjavík would be quite amiss to overlook it. When the Raven Flies slipped past mainstream success after being snubbed from nomination for Best Foreign Film in the 1984 Osc

Iceland was an amazing experience that changed me and my wife's life forever.  a few suggestions. 1. Eat the local traditional foods. 2. Check out and eat and drink at Kex hostel you will love this place. 3. Cafe Loki... Rye bread Icecream 4. Drink water fresh from a river it's that clean and lava rock filtered.  5. Check out the music scene. 6. Check out Jökulsárlón glacial lagoon and ice caves they won't exist much longer.  7. Use a GoPro camera to capt

On one incredibly sunny day in May, I got the chance to escape the Guide to Iceland offices to take off on a 2-hour Buggy expedition just a 20-minute drive outside of Reykjavík close to the iconic mountain, Esja.  Check out Buggy Adventures tours A buggy is an All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) which allows exciting access to destinations where few people usually go; off the beaten path and up rocky mountain passes, off-road across picturesque valleys, and through shallow rivers