Guidebook for Akureyri
Parks & Nature
Nice walking paths and area with outside grill to make your own barbecue, rabbits roam free in the forest and nice hiking trails up the cliffs with beautiful view over the town and fjord. Great for children with many playground areas. Also there is biking trail trough the forest witch is popular in Akureyri. The park is located near the cabins so its great place to relax and have great picnic or any other outdoor activity.
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Kjarnaskógur
KjarnavegurNice walking paths and area with outside grill to make your own barbecue, rabbits roam free in the forest and nice hiking trails up the cliffs with beautiful view over the town and fjord. Great for children with many playground areas. Also there is biking trail trough the forest witch is popular in Akureyri. The park is located near the cabins so its great place to relax and have great picnic or any other outdoor activity.
Mývatn (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈmiːˌvaʰtn̥]) is a shallow eutrophic lake situated in an area of active volcanism in the north of Iceland, not far from Krafla volcano. The lake and its surrounding wetlands have an exceptionally rich fauna of waterbirds, especially ducks. The lake was created by a large basaltic lava eruption 2300 years ago, and the surrounding landscape is dominated by volcanic landforms, including lava pillars and rootless vents (pseudocraters). The effluent river Laxá is known for its rich fishing for brown trout and Atlantic salmon.
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Mývatn
Mývatn (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈmiːˌvaʰtn̥]) is a shallow eutrophic lake situated in an area of active volcanism in the north of Iceland, not far from Krafla volcano. The lake and its surrounding wetlands have an exceptionally rich fauna of waterbirds, especially ducks. The lake was created by a large basaltic lava eruption 2300 years ago, and the surrounding landscape is dominated by volcanic landforms, including lava pillars and rootless vents (pseudocraters). The effluent river Laxá is known for its rich fishing for brown trout and Atlantic salmon.
The Goðafoss (Icelandic: "waterfall of the gods") in the year 999 or 1000 the lawspeaker Þorgeir Ljósvetningagoði made Christianity the official religion of Iceland. According to a modern myth, it is said that upon returning from the Alþingi, Þorgeir threw his statues of the Norse gods into the waterfall. The story of Þorgeir's role in the adoption of Christianity in Iceland is preserved in Ari Þorgilsson's Íslendingabók. A window in Akureyrarkirkja, the Cathedral of Akureyri, illustrates this story.
MS Goðafoss, an Icelandic ship named after the waterfall, used to transport both freight and passengers. It was sunk by a German U-Boat in World War II, resulting in great loss of life.
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Goðafoss Waterfall
The Goðafoss (Icelandic: "waterfall of the gods") in the year 999 or 1000 the lawspeaker Þorgeir Ljósvetningagoði made Christianity the official religion of Iceland. According to a modern myth, it is said that upon returning from the Alþingi, Þorgeir threw his statues of the Norse gods into the waterfall. The story of Þorgeir's role in the adoption of Christianity in Iceland is preserved in Ari Þorgilsson's Íslendingabók. A window in Akureyrarkirkja, the Cathedral of Akureyri, illustrates this story.
MS Goðafoss, an Icelandic ship named after the waterfall, used to transport both freight and passengers. It was sunk by a German U-Boat in World War II, resulting in great loss of life.
Essentials
Bónus
KjarnagataCheapest and here all the locals buy groceries
Cheapest and here all the locals buy groceries, two Bónus stores are in Akureyri (the store with the pink smiling pig).
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Bónus
KjarnagataCheapest and here all the locals buy groceries, two Bónus stores are in Akureyri (the store with the pink smiling pig).
Food Scene
Rub23 is an Icelandic restaurant that uses ingredients from Icelandic fishermen and farmers . Ingenuity from Asia and America. We specialize in seafood and have a wide variety of fish species and a wide selection of sushi dishes mixed with steaks and desserts.
What makes the restaurant unique both in Iceland and internationally is the varied way in which the menu is put together, including homemade spice mixtures that customers can choose from, the so-called RUB. RUB has become a well known term for spice mixtures that are either put onto or rubbed into food, as the name indicates.
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Rub23
Rub23 is an Icelandic restaurant that uses ingredients from Icelandic fishermen and farmers . Ingenuity from Asia and America. We specialize in seafood and have a wide variety of fish species and a wide selection of sushi dishes mixed with steaks and desserts.
What makes the restaurant unique both in Iceland and internationally is the varied way in which the menu is put together, including homemade spice mixtures that customers can choose from, the so-called RUB. RUB has become a well known term for spice mixtures that are either put onto or rubbed into food, as the name indicates.
Akureyri Fish & Chips
4 ÓseyriThe best fish and chips in the world!