History Tours in Borgarnes

Private Bespoke Snaefellsnes Peninsula Tour

Wonderful Tour of Snaefellsnes Peninsula

Joanna was an amazing tour guide. She gave interesting and informative commentary throughout the day. We especially appreciated her kind attention to everyone in our group of 8. She was great at judging the appropriate experiences for our less mobile family member and she stayed with whichever person needed the most help. You would be very fortunate to have her as your guide! Planning this tour through Your Friend in Reykjavik by email was pleasant and easy. Zofia did an excellent job of customizing the tour for us. The Snaefellsnes Peninsula is peaceful and beautiful, although views come and go in the fog. There is a good variety of stops and we were lucky to see Kirjufell Mountain clearly.

Private Snæfellsnes Tour

Sneafellsness private tour

We were on a Sneafellsness Peninsula tour with Skall Ventures tour operator. Our tour guide, Kristóf, put together the tour program in a professional manner. We met a very prepared guide, both professionally and personally. He took us to beautiful places and we learned a lot of useful information about Iceland from him during the trip. During our trip, he placed special emphasis on the safety of our group. We recommend him wholeheartedly! Nagy Lászlóné Hungary

Settlement and Egils Saga Exhibition Ticket

Well-crafted exhibits

Well thought-out exhibit spaces that, when viewed using the easy-to-use audio guide (which offers narration in about a dozen languages) were really informative in providing the history of Iceland's settlement, and in illustrating the life of Egil and his family who lived nearby, based on the old sagas. The reception area includes a nice gift shop with a cool architectural feature -- it has been built against a rock-face which juts right into the shop space itself. Rock in all its volcanic forms is so present in the Icelandic landscape and would have been a key part (hurdle) of the settlement experience 1200 years ago, so we appreciated it as an appropriate yet unexpected touch to the building. The toilets on site were free, and they were clean and bright but could benefit from a bit of refreshing (the stall in one would not lock and the seat was defective in another). There is a cafe attached to the museum which looked nice and smelled very good but we didn't stay to eat. On one side of the Settlement Centre is the sea and on the other is convenient parking. Recommend and would return again.