Sited at the foot of the prominent peak Stapafell, Arnarstapi is a tiny fishing hamlet with a breathtaking coastline. Formed of successive lava flows from Snaefellsjokull...

Roughly 4km west of Arnastapi, Hellnar is barely a cluster of houses, only a couple of which are lived in year round. The rest are holiday homes known as ‘summerhouses’ to the...

Driving around the tip of the Snaefellsnes peninsula you’ll pass the fishing villages Hellissandur, Rif, and Olafsvik, which are all worth a visit. Off the tip of the peninsul...

Sited at the gateway to the West Fjords, Budardalur is a small service town at the head of boot-shaped Hvammsfjordur. In nearby Haukadalur, visitors can look around the excavated s...

Narrow finger-like fjords form the indented south coast of the West Fjords between Flokalundur and Bjarkalundur. Almost uninhabited but for a scattering of farms, this lo...

Hesteyri is a dreamy little-abandoned settlement in the uninhabited Hornstrandir Nature Reserve. In 1894 Norwegians built a whaling station here, which operated until 1915....

Iceland was settled during the Viking era and the Icelandic Sagas are a great source of information about how people lived at the time and what the Vikings got up to elsewhere!...

Stykkisholmur is an attractive town of carefully restored timber houses clustered over a rocky outcrop around a picturesque harbor. There are restaurants and cafes, handicraft shop...

Grundarfjordur is a working fishing town that makes a little pretense at being more. Those in the know flock here for the puffin trips in summer and in win...

Sited on a narrow spit of land at the foot of steep-sided Mt Eyrarfjall, the largest town in the West Fjords has a population of 2,500. As Icelandic towns go, it is one of the nice...