If you’re lucky enough to see the Northern Lights during your Iceland trip, it will be a lifelongmemory. These fickle green and purple ribbons dance across darkened skies when highlevels of solar activity coincide with clear, cloudless skies. They’re not guaranteed, but whenthey do show up, it’s a truly magical sight. The Northern Lights and […]

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 […]