Everything you need to plan an amazing vacation to Iceland!
GeoSea opened in September 2018, making it one of the newer premium thermal baths in Iceland. There do seem to be a couple of new thermal baths opening each year, though; Vök Baths opened in July 2019, and Giljaböð is supposed to open toward the end of 2019. Those two are far from GeoSea, which is …
If you’re driving around Ring Road, when you’re up north you’ll pass very close to the town of Hvammstangi. There aren’t a ton of things to see around this part of Iceland, so the wooden sign in the shape of a seal might catch your attention. (I don’t think I took a picture of the …
Most everything you’ll find on this web site or in our book are things we have seen or done during one of our Iceland trips. Eyja Tours on the Westman Islands was an exception: I had met the owners on the Westman Islands, but not actually done the tour. And between talking to the owners …
There’s an inherent conflict in seeing puffins, in Iceland or anywhere else. On the one hand, tourists want to get as close as possible to these adorable and photogenic birds. It’s one thing to see puffins from a boat, where you may be 50 feet from their burrows. (And this is still wonderful to see!) …
Sólvangur Icelandic Horse Center is about as authentic an experience as you can get while seeing Icelandic horses. This is a serious horse breeding and training facility, run by a mother and daughter, Elsa Magnúsdóttir and Sigríður (Sigga) Pjetursdóttir. After meeting them, my guess is that Elsa and Sigga are some of the most knowledgeable …
There’s a lot going on in Iceland these days– there are fewer tourists around in October, but there’s still a lot to talk about! A new thermal bath that sounds amazing. A neat constant guessing game of whether a new airline will launch (or re-launch, I guess, in the case of WOW.) A new road, …
