Until recently, culture was one of the stand-alone characteristics that defined the human species. However, the better we study and understand our fellow animal species, the clearer it becomes that we are not that special after all. The notion that animals may have cultural traditions is not that new after all. Even Aristotle noted that […]

Blog by Hanna Michel, Special Tours Guide Earlier this month, we encountered a couple of killer whales or orcas on one of our whale watching tours here in Faxaflói, the bay off the coast of Reykjavik. Even though they do not belong to the species that we typically see in the bay, we would like to […]

Fagradalsfjall is a mountain located in the Geldingadalir valley on the Reykjanes Peninsula in the south of Iceland. It is classified as a tuya, which is a steep volcano that is flattened on the top, formed when lava erupts under a glacier or ice sheet. Fagradalsfjall has been dormant for roughly 6,000 years, but is […]