Opening Hours: Summer June to August Tuesday - Sunday: 9:30 am until 6 pm (Closed for lunch) Visitors are welcome all year round to view the site. Amenities: Entrance Fee:

The Akranes Lighthouse is a delightful place to visit, any time of year. Away from bright lights, tourists and residents flock to the site in winter to catch a glimpse of the northern lights dancing a...

Haafell farm on the north bank of the river Hvita is the Icelandic Goat Conservation Centre. The farmers are working to preserve the Icelandic goat which has survived in Iceland since the settlement i...

Back in the early days of Iceland’s settlement a farmer and his beautiful wife Thuridur lived at Froda, a farm near Olafsvik on Snaefellsnes. Bjorn, a neighboring farmer from the other side of the pen...

Berserkjahraun, 'lava of the Berserks' is an impressive lava flow on the north side of Snaefellsnes. Road 54 winds through the lava but there is only one obvious place to stop if you wish to get out a...

Snorrastofa is founded in the memory of Snorri Sturluson, Iceland‘s most important saga writer, chieftain, and lawspeaker, who settled in Reykholt 1206 and was murdered there in the fall of 1241. Snor...

Driving by Gufuskalar at the tip of Snaefellsnes it’s hard to miss the 412m high antenna, built in 1963 for the Loran navigation system. It is now used as an aerial mast for longwave broadcasting for...

Archaeological research in the ruins of Eiriksstadir discovered a dwelling from the 10th century and ancient Icelandic legends say that Eric the Red lived at Eiriksstadir in Haukadal. Eric the Red was...

Experience The World War II Saga in Iceland and  welcome to our restaurant & cafe house on location the White Falcon Opening hours From 1st. of Jun until 20. August 2017 Wednesday, Thursday & Frid...

From Budir you can walk to Budaklettur, an 88m hillock that is actually the side of the mossy crater that produced the lava flow surrounding it. Just west of it is Budahellir, a 40m long lava tube. Th...