Suntanning Icebergs on Iceland’s Black Sand Beaches

Can you imagine giant icebergs suntanning on black sand beaches? I was incredibly delighted when I arrived to Jökulsárlón, Iceland’s glacier lagoon in the southwest part of the country and saw precisely that. Pieces of ice calve off the Breiðamerkurjökull glacier on the Read More …

Tasting Hákarl in Iceland

One of Iceland’s national dishes, I tried Hákarl – rotten shark meat from the poisonous Greenland shark. The ammonia-smelling meat is cured and consumed after a 3-4 month long fermentation process to make it edible. The up-to-500 kg sharks used Read More …

10 Budgeting Tips for Traveling Iceland on the Cheap

Iceland is not a cheap country. In fact, it ranks 14th of the 141 most expensive countries in the world according to Business Insider based off the Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report from the World Economic Forum (article published May Read More …