Bird Watching

The rich bird life of the North, distributed over widely varying habitats, displays a diversity seldom surpassed in Iceland. Wetlands are important as a habitat for many Icelandic breeding species, and of the Icelandic wetlands which are famed for rich bird life, several of the most renowned are in North Iceland.

Mývatn lake and the nearby Laxá river are home to more duck species than any other place in the world, while examples of other wetlands include Svarfaðardalur and the islets at the mouth of Eyjafjarðará. Some well-known bird cliffs are located in the North, such as at Grímsey, Rauðinúpur and Langanes, besides the islands of Lundey in Skjálfandi and Mánáreyjar just eastwards, with their large puffin colonies. Skoruvíkurbjarg is one of the best places in Iceland to see Guillemots at nesting site and the best place to see the Northern Gannet. The cliffs at Langanes hosts hundreds of thousands of the auks and guillemots of Iceland, including the uncommon Brunnich’s Guillemot.
The seaward end of the peninsula off which these islands lie, Tjörnes, has abundant puffins at points where it is easy to approach and observe them.

See www.birdingiceland.is for more info.

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Gauksmýri Lodge

At Gauksmýri in West Hunathing county we offer holiday services with an emphasis on nature and horsemanship, while adhering to the Icelandic Farm Holidays' environment guidelines.

Nonni Travel

Nonni Travel aims to encourage the travel of foreign and Icelandic visitors to the region and can assist other agencies with clients wishing to travel to Iceland.

Hólar Travel Service

Hólar is a popular destination thanks to its many attractions, notably the beautiful nature and its important role in Iceland's history.

Guesthouse Mikligarður - Arctichotels

In the Guesthouse Mikligarður there are 14 rooms.

Geo Travel

Geo Travel is a carbon neutral, family run tour operator and a travel agency in North Iceland. Small groups and personal service is our speciality. We offer a variety of pre-organised day tours, tailo

Fjallasyn

Guided tours and sightseeing in Northeast Iceland, for individuals and small groups, starting from places like Akureyri, Húsavík or Mývatn

Hofsstaðir

Hofsstadir offers accommodation for ten people in 5 rooms with and without private bathrooms.

Saga Travel

Saga Travel offers you to experience North Iceland privately or in small groups, led by highly qualified guides who know the land as the back of their hand and are storytellers at heart. Each adventu

Amazing North

Amazing North is a small family run tour operator with headquarters at Lake Myvatn. What we offer are personal tours around North Iceland with a local expert guide in carbon neutralized vehicles. Our

NW Adventures ehf.

North West Adventures is a fully licenced tour operater and travel agency, offering various leisure activities in the North of Iceland. Our goal is to share the adventure that is North Iceland and sho

Jón Þór Benediktsson / The Traveling Viking

The Traveling Viking is an Icelandic tour operator in Akureyri that provide tours all over Iceland, with the main focus on the North-East

Birds Museum Sigurgeir

In the Bird Museum you can find almost all of the Icelandic nesting birds, plus about 100 of the eggs, and in a seperate exhibiton, tools that were used to fish in Lake Mývatn.

Strýtan Divecenter

The only geothermal cone found in the world you can scuba dive the other are found at 3000m or deeper. Strytan is rising from the the seafloor at a depth of 65m to 15m under the surface so the Strytan in Eyjafjörður is 50m high. Around 100 liters of freshwater per sek at 72°c is comming from the cone.