Downtown Reykjavik is really quite walkable. And should your feet fail you, the public bus system can pick up the slack.

Assuming you are staying within the downtown area… Laugavegur Street, Skolavordistigur Street (known now as Rainbow Street), the Hallgrimskirkja and the Tjornin will be the most important place names to know to …

The Perlan is a remarkable natural history museum, built into and atop an old set of water tanks within Reykjavik’s still-operating municipal water supply infrastructure. The museum houses a planetarium, an artificial ice cave, a lava show, and exhibits on geological, geothermal, biological and geographical wonders of Iceland.

The Sky …

Reykjavik hotels will not be cheap. Nothing in Iceland is going to be cheap. But there are plenty of great options, across the whole spectrum of accommodations. I won't get all presumptive about specific hotels, but rather will think about this geographically...

- For those without a car, I tend to recommend staying within a …

At some point while you are in Iceland there will be the urge to eat some of the traditional “delicacies” that have been made famous by previous travelers and their Instagram posts. You’ll be able to find opportunities to try everything from sheep’s head to fermented shark, dried fish to puffin, if you so desire. …

Our true purpose for traveling to Iceland was to complete the Laugavegur Trek, from Landmannalaugar to Thorsmork. Most folks will do this over the course of four days, with overnights at either huts or the accompanying campsites along the way. Some folks choose to continue onwards on a fifth day, to visit Fimmvorduhals and potentially even end …

Over the course of the next three days, we connected more divergent geologic landscapes than we could have imagined. There was the high-elevation, circuitous route through thick fog and clouds on the first afternoon, where everything was either brown volcanic rock, white snow, or gray fog. There was the ultra-green tundra area as we descended …

Thorsmork sits inside a wonderful natural area, surrounded on three sides by the Tindfjallajökull, Eyjafjallajökull, and Mýrdalsjökull glaciers. (That’s redundant… if a word ends in “jokull”, it’s already got “glacier” in the name. Kinda like Bankastraeti Street, Skolavordistigur …