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The days are getting longer. Since December 21st. winter solstice, we can see already that the days are getting longer. On December 21st. The sunrise is at 11.22 and sunset at 15.29, or 4 hours and 9 minutes daylight. On […]

I stubmled upon a few beautiful photos from last year of the highland in Iceland. This photo was taken in the Laki area and show clearly why people are trawelling in the highlands. Now we have increasing activity in the volcano Bárðarbunga […]

Krýsuvíkurberg is one of the biggest bird cliffs in Iceland, stretching 8 km (5 miles) and up to 60 meter high (200 feet). The cliffs are home to up to 60000 pairs of seabirds, with the biggest population Kittiwake, then […]

The first day of “Þorri”, which according to the old Norse calendar started on Friday in the 13th. week of winter, is called “Bóndadagur” and can be translated as “husbands day”. In these 4 weeks in Þorri, Icelander´s celebrate the […]

For the past couple of months we have been working on a new website, which we are now proud to launch.   In the new site localguides.is, we open up for wider range of tours and activities.  To be able […]

From Jökulsárlón, the glacier lagoon by Vatnajökull the biggest glacier in Iceland and in Europe, the icebergs brake of the glacier, fall into the lagoon and float to sea.  There they melt and smash into pieces and wash up to […]

The first Monday in August we celebrate the “day of the Merchants´”. This has become a national holiday and the weekend where “all” Icelanders travel, or at least most of us. There are several large festivals and first to mention […]

The mountain roads are opening later than usual, at least in some areas. Due to heavy rain in the southern half of Iceland this spring, many of the highland roads are not yet open. Unfortunately we still have people not […]

Sometimes called the secret waterfall as most people miss it. They only see the bigger one a couple of hundreds of meters away is Seljalandsfoss where you can walk behind. Gljufrabúi is inside a corge, which means that you have […]