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 […]

”How do whales sleep?” is a question our whale watching guides often get during tours, and it is an understandable one – how can a mammal that needs air to survive sleep underwater? The short answer is that they are conscious breathers and therefore sleep in different ways than land mammals (like us). We are […]