Iceland Features

Iceland Features

• Best of Iceland in 3 to 6 Days
  

  With only a few days on your hands, you can experience a fair number of Iceland's major attractions. You can take organized day trips from Reykjavík... read more

• Guided Tours
  

  Inclusive guided tours are offered by a number of travel agencies in Iceland, the largest of which are listed below. Most operators offer tours... read more

• Reykjavík Old Town Walk
  

  What better guiding presence on a tour of historic Reykjavík than the man who started it all, one of the first settlers of Iceland and... read more

• Reykjavík Museum Walk
  

  Art lovers can keep busy in what is still called Reykjavík's "eastern" quarter—even though it is now geographically in the west... read more

• A Geologist's Dream
  

  Where the warm southern Gulf Stream confronts the icy Arctic currents from the north, Iceland straddles the mid-Atlantic ridge at the merger... read more

• The Icelandic Horse
  

  The Icelandic horse (sometimes referred to as a pony) is a purebred descendant of its ancestors from the Viking age, in the 10th century. The... read more

• Land of the Sagas
  

  Iceland's literary tradition goes back centuries. Between the 13th and 14th centuries, dozens of sagas were written about the heroic exploits... read more

• Icelandic History
  

  Iceland was settled by Vikings with strong Celtic elements in the late 9th century. Tradition has it that the first Norse settlers arrived in... read more