Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Stop by
Café Kró
to sign up for boat (adult/child Ikr5900/4900) or bus trips (adult/child
Ikr4900/3900) with the friendly folks at Viking Tours. Boats zip around the island, slowing
for the big bird-nesting sites on the south coast, and sailing into the sea cave Klettshellir.
Trips coincide with ferry departures, making it convenient for day-trippers.
Lyngfell
HORSE RIDING
( 898 1809;
www.lyngfell.123.is
)
Lyngfell, on the road to Stórhöfði offers horse riding (one hour Ikr6000).
Lukku
HORSE RIDING
( 481 1478;
lukkan@hestaleigave.com
)
Horse riding along the coast and lava fields.
Segway Tours
SEGWAY TOUR
( 891 6818;
www.segwaytours.is
)
Zip around town.
Festivals
Þjóðhátíð
MUSIC
(National Festival;
www.dalurinn.is
;admission Ikr18,900)
Three-day Þjóðhátíð is the country's biggest outdoor festival. Held at Herjólfsdalur festival
ground over the last weekend in July or the first weekend in August, it involves music,
dancing, fireworks, a big bonfire, gallons of alcohol and, as the night progresses, lots of
drunken sex (it's something of a teen rite of passage), with upwards of 17,000 people at-
tending.
A song's written for each festival.
Extra flights are laid on from Reykjavík, but you must book transport and accommoda-
tion months in advance.
Historically, the festival was first celebrated when bad weather prevented Vestmannaey-
jar people from joining the mainland celebrations of Iceland's first constitution (1 July
