Everything you need to plan an amazing vacation to Iceland!
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 …
Last update: May 16, 2022 Icelandic horses are unique, and their history is amazing. Here’s a quick summary. In the year 982 (yes, nine eighty-two!) a law was passed in Iceland forbidding any horse from being imported into Iceland. A horse can leave the country, but it can never come back. And this law has been …
UPDATE August 2017: Fakasel’s web site is now more or less blank. Sadly, please treat the information below as nostalgia only, since you won’t be able to visit! See our new post about other options for seeing and riding Icelandic horses. UPDATE MAY 2017: Fakasel’s web site says there are temporarily closed, and it has …
We spent today at the Family Park and Zoo. Now, this place won’t compete against some of the large and impressive zoos you may have visited in the United States or elsewhere. But the price doesn’t compete either: Adults (anyone 13+): 840 krona, or about $6.80 Kids 5-12: 640 krona, or about $5 Kids under …
Hello! Today was an exciting day. First, we left our house in Siglufjörður, and drove for one and a half hours. (So exciting!) We then stopped at a horse riding place [Hestasport in the town of Varmahlíð in North Iceland]. Our dad stayed in the car to watch the baby, so everyone else rode.
Hello! Sorry for no Live from Iceland post yesterday; after all of the busy days last week we decided to take a day to relax. Today we first went to the East Iceland Heritage Museum, which had a really cool exhibit about reindeer. The other exhibit in the museum was about an old historical turf …
