Unique Adventure Tour for school groups

Flatey Island for School Groups

Further Information on Stykkishólmur

Accommodation

• Hótel Stykkishólmur - www.hotelstykkisholmur.is Tel: (+354) 430-2100
• Hótel Breiðafjörður – hotelbreidafjordur@simnet.is Tel: (+354) 433-2200
• Hostel Skjöldur - Sleeping bag accommodation with cooking facilities. 8 km from Stykkishólmur. Tel: 438 1535 & 438 1510.
• Hostel Sjónarhóll - Sleeping bag accommodation with 47 beds in 10 rooms. Cooking facilities. Tel: 861 2517 & 438 1417.

Activities

• Swimming pool is well equipped with a 12m indoor swimming pool and a 25m out-door swimming pool, two hot tubs with local ’health’ water, and a large slide. Please note that the pool offers special school prices if booked in advance tel.: 438-1150.
• Guided Tours around Stykkisholmur: Stroll around Stykkisholmur, meet the old town and the new with a guide. Tel 848 53 15.
• Norwegian House. A local folk and culture museums. Exhibitions are frequently held in this old house.
• Library of Water. The library building has been altered in a number of ways to make a calm and beautiful viewing room which also houses three related collections: of water, words, and weather reports.
• Stykkishólmur Church. The new church in Stykkishólmur is an excellent concert-hall and during the summer there are several performances of classical concerts with many great musicians.
• Old houses. In Stykkishólmur there are some old houses which have recently been renovated, giving the town a charming look, such as Kuld’s house, Norwegian house, Egil’s house, Clausen’s house, Tang og Riis and of course the Old Church .

Nature

• Súgandisey is an island near the harbour. A few years ago it was connected to the mainland. There is a path up to the island, to the
• ,,Lovenest” and the light-house that is over 100 years old. From the top there is a great view over Breiðafjörður and the islands.
• Helgafell farm and Mountain. The farm, famous in the Icelandic Sagas, and a church was in its time the residence of Snorri goði and later of Guðrún Ósvífursdóttir of Laxdæla saga. Her grave can be seen there. From 1184 until 1550, there was a wealthy monastery nearby. The small mountain Helgafell was sacred to people of the Saga age. The story goes that if you walk the path from the grave of Guðrún Ósvífursdóttir up to the remains of the chapel on top (face east), without speaking a single word or looking back on the way, you can have three wishes. The wishes must be pure-hearted and told to no one.
• Bjarnarhöfn Shark Farm.  Here you can taste the famous rotten shark and dried fish and have a guided tour to the old church..
• Berserkjahraun. ("Berserks- lava field") 4000 years old lava from a small row of craters below Kerlingarskarð passes, the largest crater being Rauðakúla. The name of the lava field is derived from Víga-Styr´s berserks. In the year of 982 the berserks were forced by their leader to cut a path through the lava, Berserkjagata, but then he betrayed and killed them. The path is still visible, and also the burial mound of the berserks.
• Drápuhlíðafjall Mountain. An unusual and colourful mountain containing basalt and rhyolite, with lignite between layers and fossilized treetrunks.
• Kerlingarskarð. ("Troll´s pass") A pass (311m) over the Snæfellsnes mountain range. A folktale tells of a lady troll who was on her way home with her catch after good nights fishing in a lake nearby when she was caught by the sun and turned to stone. She can still be seen with her line of trout over her shoulder, on a ridge of the mountain Kerlingarfjall, opposite the mountain Hafrafell, at the north end of the pass. It is possible to walk up there but it is a difficult hike.