This new thoroughly updated fifth edition of Bradts award-winning Iceland guide remains the
most in-depth guide available to one of the few countries in the world that has no mosquitoes
no ants no Starbucks and no MacDonalds. Featuring honest practical information from an author
who has repeatedly visited the country over twenty years and is familiar with its language
history and culture Bradts Iceland has won the Lowell Thomas Award (the highest travel writing
award available in the United States) and provides more context for individual places than any
other guidebook plus frank investigative hotel and restaurant reviews that hide nothing. This
latest edition covers everything you would expect from the Northern Lights to snow mobiling
dog sledding visiting West Fjords Icelands remotest corner and the Laugavegur trail
Icelands most famous 5-day trek. New developments covered include the merging together of
different Nature Reserves and National Parks under the Vatnajökull National Park banner better
infrastructure throughout the entire country new hotels restaurants bars and geothermal spas
and more tour companies offering a wider variety of activities. For Reykjavik there has been a
complete update of the citys nightlife restaurants hotels swimming pools and festivals
while other new features include fuller coverage of East Iceland visiting hot springs and spas
4X4 adventures in the Icelandic Highlands plus more details of how and where to experience
Icelands amazing wildlife. Bradts Iceland also offers the most detailed maps of any
guidebook.Based on 20 years of personal and business travel exploration and adventure all
around the country the guide is exhaustive well-researched and comprehensive featuring a
year-round approach to travelling in Iceland in line with the development of the local tourist
industry to offer attractions beyond the normal summer season. As a contributor to National
Geographic and a frequent host for tours to Iceland Andrew Evans explores some of the
remotest corners of the country regularly. He continues to lecture about the country to
high-end tour groups as well as the National Geographic Society and Smithsonian Institution.
His guide is exhaustive allowing travellers to make informed decisions to go anywhere and
explore anything.
