Mission of the Website: Helping tourists and locals discover Iceland in its full glory (everything important about Iceland in one place).
Subtitle: Providing a complete and unbiased view of Iceland through the eyes of a curious explorer, helping to save money and protect against hidden dangers that are not always obvious.
Who the Website is For:
- Those planning to visit Iceland and want to better organize and enjoy their trip.
- Those already in Iceland looking to discover new interesting places.
- People who want to travel but don’t know exactly where, and might be inspired to visit Iceland.
- People searching for new interesting locations for professional reasons (film locations, wedding/honeymoon photoshoots).
- Guides and travel agencies looking for inspiration for unique places.
Mission of the Website:
- To provide you with unfiltered and unbiased information about Iceland and enable a more interesting experience.
- To save you money, as it can quickly disappear on Iceland with just a bit of carelessness.
- To warn you about the dangers Iceland hides.
- To help you discover interesting places you might otherwise miss.
How the Website Works: The website is divided into two parts: the text guide – an online guidebook, and the map section, where individual places are described including accessibility and pinpointed exactly by GPS. You can also find interesting experiences and events here.
Who is Behind the Website:
- Texts, photographs, videos, and expedition activities: Ruben
- Technical system management: Tomáš
The Story of the Project: It started when my friend and I were looking for a waterfall that legend said was hidden somewhere in the forests. We found it, and it is Brúarfoss. Or when we didn’t know where to find Hvítserkur, and even though we spent five months in Iceland, we missed that rock formation. Or when I was looking for Elephant Rock and googled that you can see it from a boat and where to buy tickets for the tour. But the rock is just as visible from the shore, which I didn’t read about anywhere. I had to discover it myself. Or a little thing like the rusting whaling ships in Hvalfjörður, which are just 100 meters from the Ring Road in places I’ve driven past at least 50 times. But I discovered them only when I needed to stop there for a break. And I think few people know about them without a map. It somehow seemed to me that the world should know about these, so I started making this website to share what I discovered.
What’s Behind All These Words and Photos (and Not Immediately Visible):
- 45,000 kilometers driven in Iceland (+12,500 km between Prague and Hirtshals)
- Countless nights in Icelandic campsites, hostels, hotels and some nice flats.
- Car repairs (alternator failure, broken exhaust, pierced undercarriage (sill) in a river, double flat tire)
- Due to illness, 10 days in a hotel in Egilsstaðir
- Five times a broken leg, 150 kilometers in an off-road ambulance from Þórsmörk to Reykjavík + surgery + repatriation (+ a destroyed Nikon D750 and lens hood during the fall) and 4 months bedridden (when I wrote and indexed)
- 5x ferry trips Hirtshals (Denmark) – Seyðisfjörður (Iceland)
- 4x flights between Europe and Iceland
Plan for the Near Future:
- Index approximately 300 new places (including the newest island, a peculiar lighthouse, and the highest point in Iceland)
- Explore traditional Icelandic experiences and provide a report
- Find out if there really is a path to the center of the earth at Snæfellsjökull
- Eat shark, drink Brennivín, and not die.