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  • 1913
    Iceland's first and only railway is laid from Öskjuhlíð hill to Reykjavík Harbour. It was used to transport rocks and gravel for the harbour's construction.

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Iceland Visitor's Guide Online - Information about Iceland

Looking for information about Iceland?

Since its first publication in 2000, Visitor's Guide has acquired a place among the best and most popular tourist guides to Iceland. Now this excellent guide is available both as a Pocket Book and as an Online Guide.

Here you can browse through articles, photogalleries and practical information online, view the Pocket Book Version on the screen or download a printable copy. You may also download maps of Reykjavík and Kópavogur, or a road map of Iceland.

Browse through lists of our registered companies in various branches of the tourist industry, by using the "Your Guide To" option in the top left corner on the page. Some of the companies registered the Visitor's Guide offer discounts and special deals for tourists that carry the Visitor's Guide Pocket Book with them while shopping. These coupons can also be retrieved by downloading the printable version of Visitor's Guide Pocket Book.

At this point we do not send the Visitor's Guide Pocket Book abroad.

English  Icelandic  French  Swedish  German  Spanish
Much of the website's content is in English, however, many of our companies have information in Icelandic, German, French, Swedish and Spanish as well. The available languages are indicated by a small flag of the country in question. 

Haustferð: gisting, matur og afþreying
Við hjá veitingastadir.is og visitorsguide.is höfum í hyggju að bjóða upp á skemmtilega ferð út á land jafnvel fyrstu helgina í október. Í ferðinni yrði farið í 2-4 tíma hestaferð, gist á hóteli eina nótt, 2ja eða 3ja rétta máltíð, morgunmatur og fleira sem hugsanlega væri innifalið á hótelinu. Einnig væri hugsanlegt í annarri ferð að bjóða uppá hótel og gistingu eina nótt og létta göngu á jökli. Ekki er búið að útfæra þetta alveg - fer meðal annars eftir viðtökum og við eigum eftir að semja við hótel og hestaleigu. Verð færi eftir lengd ferðar og gæði gistingar. Láttu okkur gjarnan vita hvort þú hefðir áhuga á því að skrá þig til að fá meiri upplýsingar, þegar nær dregur? Við áætlum að verð yrði í kringum 16.000 - 18.000, eftir gæði gistingar, lengd ferðar o.fl.

Vinningshafar af póstlista veitingastadir.is eru; 
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Pictures and a video of the volcano eruption in Eyjafjallajökull
We have just added pictures and a video of the volcano eruption in Eyjafjallajökull. The pictures were taken by Elisa Stead in April 2010 and the video was made by the TV-Station RÚV. You can view the photos by clicking here You can view the ...
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New video: What is there to see in Iceland?
You can now watch a new video by clicking here called "What is there to see in Iceland?" The video was inspired by the month of March. Icelandic men grew moustaches to support researches of cancer. ...
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Visitor's Guide Online is run by NETIÐ - marketing and business consultancy, which also publishes Visitor's Guide Pocket Book as well as a comprehensive Information Folder in 6 languages. The Information Folder and the Pocket Book are available in hotels, guesthouses and information centres in the Greater Reykjavik area, as well as at some places in the countryside.

All Visitor's Guide products contain information from selected recommended companies in various branches of the tourist industry; dining, shopping, culture and recreation. Information on this webpage reflects the content of the published products, developed through 10 years of finding out what tourists in Iceland are looking for.

Visitor's Guide
Information Folder
since 1997

Visitor's Guide
Pocket Book
since 2000


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