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Like all capitals in the world, Reykjavík offers art and history lovers the opportunity to visit a number of museums, each one more interesting than the next.In fact, most of them are accessible free of charge if you have the Reykjavik City Card. Here are some of the b
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Reykjavik's Top Museums
150 km from Reykjavík down the famed Road number 1 lies the small village of Skogar and its 30 inhabitants. The village takes its name from the landscape that used to exist there, as it means “forest” in Icelandic. This typical Icelandic village is a village like a
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Skogar and Skogafoss
The early 17th century was a particularly difficult period for Iceland, a time of famines, volcanic eruptions, and poverty... Witchcraft gained in popularity in these dark times, a service rendered to solve problems and protect people from harm in any shape or form. Wit
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The Holmavik Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft
Any visitor to Iceland must take the opportunity to try Skyr, a delicious and typically Icelandic type of cottage cheese. In Iceland these are common as dirt, available in any grocery store in the country, but internationally only in select food shops. What is Skyr? Sk
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Skyr: An Icelandic Culinary Specialty
The Melrakkaslétta peninsula is a remote place in the far north-east of Iceland, often overlooked by tourists, who generally prefer taking the trusty Road number 1 from Myvatn to the Eastern Fjords. Located north of Asbyrgi, you'll have to take Road 85 to get around th
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The Melrakkasletta Peninsula
In the far north-east of Iceland, beyond Husavik and Asbyrgi, lies a wild region often overlooked by tourists. The climate here is punishing, and the small town of Raufarhöfn with its 194 inhabitants is where you'll find the bulk of the Melrakkaslétta peninsula's popu
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Heimskautsgerðið: The Arctic Henge
The Kerlingarfjöll region is entirely isolated, a remote part of the central highlands and a paradise for hikers. The Hveradalir trail is probably the most popular in the region. Being so remote, Kerlingarfjöll is not the most popular region compared to Iceland's many
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The Hveradalir-Kerlingarfjöll Hiking Trail
Some farms in Iceland choose to hide in plain sight, literally blending into the landscape. These old buildings stand out, or rather the opposite, for their grass and peat roofing, a traditional Icelandic construction method incorporating peat and grass for insulation t
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Traditional Icelandic Turf Houses
Headed to Husavik that morning, the weather forecast wasn't very reassuring, not at all in fact. We arrived quite early in the morning in Husavik, where we had booked a whale watching tour. While waiting for our excursion, we decided to visit the whale museum. Admissi
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Whale-Watching in Husavik
This trip to Iceland will be remembered for a long time. We probably had worse weather than the previous times but we can have the satisfaction of having been able to adapt our itinerary by having planned “alternative solutions” for exactly those situations. Looking
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11 days in Iceland review
Today, we had planned less walking because our legs were sore, but a nice day awaited us in the North. We would drive along the north coast and sleep near Akureyri. We hit the road just before 10:00AM to join Road 76 with a first stop at the Hosfos swimming pool, famous
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North coast villages
We left Vatsnes this morning and the weather has been rather gloomy. We're also a little sad because this is our last day in Iceland for this trip. We planned a stop at Hraunfossar before heading back to the capital. Literally named “the lava falls”, this site is a
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From Hraunfossar to Reykjavik
The weather was still nice that morning, but the weather forecast was going to turn that aroud during the day, especially in the region we were heading to: the Vatsnes Peninsula. It was 9:30AM when we left our guesthouse, and after some thought and to enjoy a bit of the
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From Myvatn to Vatsnes
On our 4th day, Vedur announced much better weather so we could do what we had planned to do: Kerlingarfjöll and Hveravellir before heading to Northern Iceland. The road was long and the hike we had planned was a big trail so we left quite early, around 8:30AM from the
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Kerlingarfjoll and Hveradalir
Waking up on our 3rd day we suffered the main disappointment of our trip: unfortunately, we would not be able to return to Landmannalaugar where we had planned to spend the day hiking to Blanhukur and going to Eldgja, as the weather forecast was awful. After thinking a
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Fluðir region