Guidebook for Húsavík

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Guidebook for Húsavík

Food Scene

Family owned restaurant. Menu includes fresh fish & seafood, local lamb, steaks, pastas, salads & a selection of pizzas & burgers. Consider pre-booking your table. Pizza delivery/take out available.
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Salka Restaurant
6 Garðarsbraut
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Family owned restaurant. Menu includes fresh fish & seafood, local lamb, steaks, pastas, salads & a selection of pizzas & burgers. Consider pre-booking your table. Pizza delivery/take out available.

Everything Else

The town's only off-license/liquor store. Offer a range of local and imported lagers and ales. A decent selection of wines and spirits.
Vínbúðin
21 Garðarsbraut
The town's only off-license/liquor store. Offer a range of local and imported lagers and ales. A decent selection of wines and spirits.
Offer horse riding tours along the coast of the bay.
Saltvík Horse Rental
Norðausturvegur
Offer horse riding tours along the coast of the bay.
Relax in the warm healing waters full of minerals, a nice place to take the load off your feet and your mind. Autumn to Spring, sit with a beer and watch the Northern Lights - perfect evening!
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Mývatn Nature Baths
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Relax in the warm healing waters full of minerals, a nice place to take the load off your feet and your mind. Autumn to Spring, sit with a beer and watch the Northern Lights - perfect evening!

Sightseeing

Friendly multilingual guides offer a range of tours including whale and puffin safaris, angling trips, horse trekking and hiking tours around the local area.
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Gentle Giants Whale Watching
Garðarsbraut
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Friendly multilingual guides offer a range of tours including whale and puffin safaris, angling trips, horse trekking and hiking tours around the local area.
A horseshoe shaped canyon, created by a hoof print of Odin's 8 legged horse Sleipnir. Very picturesque landscape. Especially beautiful in the autumn when all of the trees and shrubbery turn orange.
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Ásbyrgi
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A horseshoe shaped canyon, created by a hoof print of Odin's 8 legged horse Sleipnir. Very picturesque landscape. Especially beautiful in the autumn when all of the trees and shrubbery turn orange.
Reputedly the most powerful waterfall in Europe - feel the rocks vibrate. No visit to the North East is complete without taking in this sight. Just don't try standing too close to the edge!
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Dettifoss (Westseite)
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Reputedly the most powerful waterfall in Europe - feel the rocks vibrate. No visit to the North East is complete without taking in this sight. Just don't try standing too close to the edge!
The dark castles. A collapsed lava field that creates a vivid landscape. This is where Satan landed when he was kicked out of Heaven.
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Lava field Dimmuborgir
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The dark castles. A collapsed lava field that creates a vivid landscape. This is where Satan landed when he was kicked out of Heaven.
If you're a bird spotter, head here. If you're a Game of Thrones fan, head here, and keep your eyes open for the Wildlings. Take a packed lunch, myvatn is expensive. Oh, and take insect repellant.
See Myvatn
If you're a bird spotter, head here. If you're a Game of Thrones fan, head here, and keep your eyes open for the Wildlings. Take a packed lunch, myvatn is expensive. Oh, and take insect repellant.
An expanse of hot springs, fumaroles, mud pools and mud pots that all seem to be boiling with relentless energy. Once you visit here you'll realise why our hot water smells the way it does.
Namaskard
An expanse of hot springs, fumaroles, mud pools and mud pots that all seem to be boiling with relentless energy. Once you visit here you'll realise why our hot water smells the way it does.
A beautiful waterfall, not as impressive as Dettifoss, but more picturesque. When the region converted to Christianty, statues of the Norse gods were thrown off here, hence the name Gods Waterfall.
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Goðafoss
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A beautiful waterfall, not as impressive as Dettifoss, but more picturesque. When the region converted to Christianty, statues of the Norse gods were thrown off here, hence the name Gods Waterfall.