20 Photos to Inspire You to Visit Iceland in Winter

With amazing adventure activities like ice caving, glacier hiking and scuba diving Iceland is a magical country. You can stay warm by relaxing in natural hotpots around the country while enjoying spectacular views. Here are 20 photos that will inspire Read More …

Diving the Continental Divide at Silfra, Iceland

While in Iceland I put my Divemasters certificate to use and stroked another item off my bucket list diving the continental divide at Silfra. The two continents are ripping apart from each other at a rate of 2-18 centimeters a Read More …

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 …