Why hire a professonal tourist guide?

The practice of guiding, as a profession, is not to be overlooked or underappreciated. Guiding is a skill, an often academically-accredited qualification that elevates a destination’s capability to showcase attractions and other areas from baseline to beyond expectation. Read more on this in the article "Tour guides: Noticing or Knowing" on eTurboNews.

Islandia - Alan Estrada takes a bicycle tour around Reykjavik with Ursula Spitzbart

Alan Estrada explores Reykjavik on a bicycle with Reykjavik Bike Tours. Ursula Spitzbart of Reykjavik Bike Tours explains to Alan how to order a hot dog at Bæjarins bestu pylsur - Reykjavik's Best Hot Dogs - established in 1937. Alan then stays in town to enjoy Culture Night (Menningarnótt), Páll Óskar, fireworks and more.

Hjólað í vinnuna - Bicycle to Work 2012

Hjólað í vinnuna, or Bicycle to Work, is an annual bicycle event in Iceland. The aim is to get people to bicycle to work. The event is promoted in the spring, probably with the purpose that those who start cycling to work in spring, may continue all summer and perhaps all winter too. Some 666 workplaces took part this year and the total distance covered in 13 days was 741.450 km. About 133 tons of Co2 emissions was not added to our athmosphere and 55.597 liters of fuel which would have cost about 116 thousand US dollars. The winner this year was the Family- and Domestic Animal Zoo. The highest average per participant over the 13 days was Meistararnir (The Champions), who cycled 804,7 km on the average. More information here: www.hjoladivinnuna.is