Iceland Like a Local

22/10/2025

Join the auroras! 🌌🇮🇸

There’s no place like Iceland to chase the aurora borealis—and no group of experts like the AURORAS. Join the alliance for a chance to win a free trip to Ice...

01/04/2021

Status on the ongoing eruption in the Geldingadalur valley:
After 12 days since the first release of lava, the eruption is still in progress, the lava flow is constant in the 5-6 m3 / s and the valley begins to fill up. Geologists estimate that within a few days, a lava flow will probably escape into the neighboring valley to invest new territory.

The eruption is very interesting because the magma comes directly from the mantle and comes out at temperatures over 1200 °C; the current process seems to be the formation of a shield volcano, a circular volcano which can extend over several tens of kilometers like the famous Skjaldbreiður (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skjaldbrei%C3%B0ur).

According to geologists the swarm of earthquakes caused the appearance of this eruptive fissure and only a real earthquake could block the duct to stop the eruption.

During this time, a large part of the local residents went to enjoy the show. 2 access paths have been set up by the Icelandic rescue teams, an emergency tent is now on site and traffic is regulated by the police with specific hours of access to the volcano so that the public can go there safely according to the weather conditions and the direction of the wind that carries the harmful gases from it (which for the moment have not impacted more than the region near the volcano).

Whether the eruption continues or stops tomorrow, the Geldingadalur valley and its lava field will become one of the most visited points near the capital in the years to come so the authorities are considering how best to develop the site and its access before tourism resumes in the spring.

You can see some pictures from the first days of the eruption here by our home photographer: https://www.behance.net/gallery/116036115/Volcanic-eruption-in-Iceland

and follow the eruption live here: https://youtu.be/BA-9QzIcr3c

photo below by the brilliant https://www.facebook.com/thrainnko

23/12/2020

2020 in Iceland! We had free time so we managed to explore a bit more our beautiful island!

Hoping we can welcome you again in great travel conditions in 2021, all the team at Iceland Like A Local wish you a great holiday season!

Gleðilega hátíð og farsælt komandi ár! 🇮🇸🇮🇸🇮🇸

2 pictures a month. Without being really able to get out of the island gave me time to explore a bit more closely.
There would be plenty more places to share but let's pause there :)

14/12/2020

Some good news ...

Travelers hoping to enter Iceland will be able to do so without going into quarantine or taking a test if they have already contracted and recovered from coronavirus.

13/11/2020

Everything you wanted to know about the icelandic skyr!

16/10/2020

La belle saison d'automne touche à sa fin en Islande. Les nuits se font plus sombres et plus longues... L'hiver est au pas de la porte, alors nous attendons patiemment les lumières de Noël, les grosses chutes de neige et nous nous plongeons dans le calme de l'hiver avec un bon bouquin et le confort des chauds intérieurs islandais !

25/05/2020

Our national photographer Ragnar Axelsson, aka Rax, has been travelling around the country at the end of March at the beginning of the pandemic and brought back those amazing pictures!

Photographer Ragnar Axelsson traveled the Iceland Ring Road just as the coronavirus pandemic took hold of the world to document a new level of desolation.

01/07/2019

16/04/2019

Top of the morning to you from ....

14/03/2019

Here´s a light-hearted take on Iceland´s beauty.

Have you wondered why people starting going to Iceland a lot in recent years? We found out why. It didn't exist before that. Created for The Mystery Hour lat...