Local Guides Iceland

11/07/2022

06/02/2022

Yellow weather alert! Stay safe 🙏
The Icelandic Met office have issued yellow and red weather warnings all over Iceland. Severe weather is expected in Iceland very early Monday morning, with violent winds and blizzard conditions.

Let's stay safe and warm and see you all soon in our beautiful country!

26/04/2021

The summer has already started here inn Iceland. The first summer day was on Thursday April 22nd. and our Local Guides are exited for the summer 😀
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11/04/2021

According to Sunday Times, Iceland will be the hottest destination this summer.
Local Guides are locals with passion to travel all around Iceland and share their knowledge with travellers from all over the world. We offer private tours, open tours, personnel service and we promise to take good care of you. Please look at our website, send us an email, you find our contact details in our profile.

06/04/2021

A new lava fissure has opened several hundred meters to the side of the eruption in Geldingadalir, resulting in a stream of lava flowing into another valley, Meradalir. In the distance are the city lights in Reykjavik.

20/03/2021

Drone video from the eruption in Geldingardal close to Fagradalsfjall in Reykjanes
https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2021/03/20/storbrotnar_dronamyndir_af_gosinu/

Fyrstu drónamyndirnar af eldgosinu í Fagradalsfjalli eru byrjaðar að berast og mbl.is sýnir hér myndir sem Sigurður Þór Helgason tók við krefjandi aðstæður yfir gosinu í nótt og þær eru í einu orði sagt stórbrotnar.

19/03/2021

Eruption started in Reykjanes peninsula.
Few minutes ago around 22.00 / 10 p.m. tonight an eruption started in Reykjanes peninsula, close to the mountain Fagradalsfjall. It's been expected now for a couple of weeks as we have had thousands of earthquakes up to 5,2. The nature is very unpredictable as the last 24 hours the earthquakes had slowed down and in the evening news a geologist said that the likelihood for an eruption had diminished a lot and most likely there would not be an eruption in spite of all the earthquakes. Still 2 hours later we had one :)
The eruption is not far from the town Grindavik and the Blue lagoon and tomorrow when it is daylight again scientists can estimate the size of it and how likely it will be that the eruption will threaten the town, the Blue lagoon or the geothermal power plant in Svarsengi.
The photo was from the extra evening news in RUV national television.
Local Guides are locals with passion to travel all around Iceland and share their knowledge with travellers from all over the world. We offer private tours, open tours, personnel service and we promise to take good care of you. Please look at our website, send us an email, you find our contact details in our profile.

19/03/2021

The Icelandic sheep kept the people alive for many centuries. The wool kept them warm during the cold winters and almost everything from the sheep was eaten. Even the rams testicles were eaten and still are as a delicatesse in the period we call “Þorri”. In the centuries before 1900 very little food was imported so sheep meat and fish were the main source of food for Icelanders.
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15/03/2021

This crater full of water is close to the mountain Laki and is one of many craters that erupted from June 1783 to February 1784 and caused the so called "Móðuharðindi".
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08/03/2021

On top of the second biggest glacier in Iceland, Langjökull.
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24/02/2021

Dried fish.
Skreiðarhjallar full of fish (skreið) hanging by the tail to dry in the wind.

14/02/2021

Valentine's Day ❤️

11/02/2021

Icelandic turf houses.
Before the twentieth century, the majority of the Icelandic people lived in turf houses. The Skogar museum has one of very few preserved turf houses we still have in Iceland. Due to lack of building materials like wood in the old ages, Icelanders needed other building materials and used turf to build the houses.

08/02/2021

Approximately every four years there is an eruption in Iceland and some of them are friendly tourist attractions like when the eruption started in Eyjafjallajökull in 2010. In the beginning of the eruption there were jeeps and snowmobiles on the glacier to watch the eruption. We could even go so close that we could feel the heat from the spouting lava. These photos were taken on March 25th. 2010 at 8-9 p.m.

03/02/2021

The Icelandic horse not only has a good sense of humor, he also has an extra gait, called tölt. He is very strong built and gets furry during the winter to withstand the cold and the harsh weather.
He has a good temper and is good to ride.

17/01/2021

Relaxed seal in Jökulsárlón, glacier lagoon.

12/01/2021

Contrasts in the highland, moss and sand..

10/01/2021

What a view !

21/12/2020

Winter solstice today December 21st. Sunrise at 11.22 and sunset at 16.29. Shortest day of the year, only about 5 hours. From tomorrow every day will be few minutes longer than the day before, until June 21st. at summer solstice.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/TFzSi6VotR5P3cRW9

01/12/2020

We´re on the right track ...
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/iceland-covid-test-travel-intl-scli/index.html

Travelers hoping to enter Iceland will be able to do so without going into quarantine or taking a test if they have already contracted and recovered from coronavirus.

16/11/2020

Gullfoss waterfall in the Golden circle

16/03/2020

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28/02/2019

Krýsuvíkurberg is one of the biggest bird cliffs in Iceland, stretching 8 km (5 miles) and up to 60 meter high (200 feet). The cliffs are home to up to 60000 pairs of seabirds, with the biggest population Kittiwake, then Common Guillemot and Razorbill. In the picture the lava lines are very clear and good example how Iceland was built up layer by layer of lava for the last 16 million years and still going strong :)

25/01/2019

Bóndadagur

The first day of “Þorri”, which according to the old Norse calendar started on Friday in the 13th. week of winter, is called “Bóndadagur” and can be translated as “husbands day”.

In these 4 weeks in Þorri, Icelander´s celebrate the old times. In every town are festivals were the food is prepared like in the old days, with smoked, salted, soured, dried fish and meat. Of course the local schnapps is not far away and a local beer made specially for this occasion.

14/01/2019

Axl Rose on Amelia Rose

This little fellow has been using the platform on the back of "our" whale watching yacht to rest and even came with us into the bay in one of the tours.

30/12/2018

Dear friends. We at Local Guides like to thank you all for wonderful year and wish you happy new year.

29/11/2018

The Icelandic Met office have issued yellow and orange weather warnings all over Iceland. 55 m/sec or 123 mi/hour. A lot of roads are closed and conditions dangerous in many areas. Heavy snowfall in the north part of Iceland. The forecast for the next few days is similar, strong northerly wind with temperature around 0° C.

25/11/2018

⏩ Northern Lights Cruise Deluxe on tonight at 9pm from the Reykjavík Old Harbour -
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20/10/2018

Double rainbow on Lyngdalsheidi.

02/09/2018

Why Are Puffins Vanishing? The Hunt for Clues Goes Deep (Into Their Burrows)

Why Are Puffins Vanishing? The Hunt for Clues Goes Deep (Into Their Burrows)

Overfishing, hunting and pollution are putting pressure on the birds, but climate change may prove to be the biggest challenge.