Description
| Product ID: | 9781784776459 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | IN |
| Title: | Iceland |
| Authors: | Author: Andrew Evans |
| Page Count: | 512 |
| Subjects: | Travel and holiday guides, Travel & holiday guides |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Iceland Travel Guide - Expert, all-year round travel information including Reykjavík, hotels, nightlife, farm stays and activities such as trekking and riding. Also covers Northern Lights, Golden Circle tours, the Blue Lagoon, Thórsmörk and Landmannalaugar, Vatnajökull, Laugavegurinn, self-drive, natural landscapes, waterfalls and wildlife. This new, thoroughly updated fifth edition of Bradt''s 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, Bradt''s 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, Iceland''s remotest corner, and the Laugavegur trail, Iceland''s 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 city''s 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 Iceland''s amazing wildlife. Bradt''s 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Bradt Travel Guides |
| Publisher Name: | Bradt Travel Guides |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-01-28 |
