Product Description

This is a completely revised best-selling guide by expert Icelandic-speaking author. It has a special seasonal-themed colour section on outdoor and adventure activities, from snowmobiling and biking to whale watching and diving. It features fully overhauled grid-referenced maps to Iceland's nightlife capital Reykjavik. There are detailed maps of Reykjavik. It offers enhanced coverage of environmental issues including numerous interviews with local residents. It provides more in depth information on driving around Iceland.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4521 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 356 pages

Customer Reviews

Lonely Planet Spins out of Orbit!
There was a time when Lonely Planet was written by people who had actually been to all the places in their books, and could talk from first hand experience of the locations. However, this is clearly not the case with this latest edition. After waiting eagerly for the latest edition to be published in mid-May before my camping trip in June 2004, it was with some astonishment to see one of the authors' main travelling credentials was attending the "runtur", the weekly pub-crawl in Reykjavik! That aside, the architectural walking tour of Reykjavik is a disappointment as it takes one through all the most dismal streets, whilst information on locations outside of the capital is sparce and quite vague; indeed in some places it is very inaccurate and in a couple of instances, totally wrong, giving the impression that the authors have probably never ventured further than Reykjavik and not experienced what they are writing about. The overall effect of this edition is that the authors have gone through a pile of slightly out of date tourist information leaflets and written a few lines on the key places, but do not appear to be keeping alive the spirit of other editions of Lonely Planet and actually writing from first hand experience. I have used Lonely Planet for many years and many countries, but this is certainly not up to the usual high standard and quite a disappointment.

Absolutely Brilliant
My husband and I spent 4 days driving the south of Iceland in August 2007 and this book was great. The maps were spot on and the recommendations were spot on. We particularly loved the lobster soup at the Saegreifinn restuarant in Reykjavik and tried the whale meat kebab. Using this guide and the recommendations in it, we managed to go dog sledding, snow mobiling and whale watching. The only thing we missed was seeing Puffins, however they apparently left 2 weeks before we arrived, so we can't put that blame on the guide. Definitely the best guide out there for Iceland, highly recommended.

Iceland-Lonely Planet Country Guide
Definitely buy this book if you are looking for useful information as opposed to pretty pictures - this book has it all, example - hotel information, bus routes, sightseeing trips, eating, language etc, etc, etc. A good book to buy to go with this one is Insight Guides - Iceland. This one has the pictures as well as information. If you are only buying one book I'd go for the Insight Guide.