Guidebook for Stykkishólmur
Essentials
Bónus
1 BorgarbrautAll the groceries one can need.
Food Scene
Narfeyrarstofa
3 AðalgataGreat restaurant, great seafood
Fosshotel Stykkishólmur
8 BorgarbrautAnother restaurant
A small bakery/café. Stock up on sugary confections like kleinur (traditional twisty doughnuts) or ástar-pungur (literally ‘love balls’; fried balls of dough and raisins).
12 locals recommend
Nesbrauð ehf
NesvegurA small bakery/café. Stock up on sugary confections like kleinur (traditional twisty doughnuts) or ástar-pungur (literally ‘love balls’; fried balls of dough and raisins).
Swing by Gamla Rif for tasty coffee, cakes or lunch. The owners, two fishermen’s wives, have perfected a mean fish soup (from their husbands’ daily catch).
Rif
Swing by Gamla Rif for tasty coffee, cakes or lunch. The owners, two fishermen’s wives, have perfected a mean fish soup (from their husbands’ daily catch).
Sjávarpakkhúsið
2a HafnargataGreat seafood!
Skipper Restaurant
Good hamburgers
Arts & Culture
Stykkishólmskirkja Church In Iceland
Borgarbrautchurch
Vatnasafn
19 BókhlöðustígurInteresting
Golfklúbbur Stykkishólms
If you want to play some golf
Sundlaug Stykkishólms
Great swimming pool with geothermal healing water
Norwegian House
HafnargataMuseum
Sightseeing
Helgafellssveit
Beautiful views and relatively easy to climb
tours, hiking etc. The mountain is also known as the setting of the novel Journey to the Center of the Earth by the French author Jules Verne.
Snæfellsjökull
tours, hiking etc. The mountain is also known as the setting of the novel Journey to the Center of the Earth by the French author Jules Verne.
The tiny village at Arnarstapi with beautiful sea cliffs and views. Popular hiking, around two and half kilometres from Arnastapi to Hellnar.
33 locals recommend
Arnarstapi
The tiny village at Arnarstapi with beautiful sea cliffs and views. Popular hiking, around two and half kilometres from Arnastapi to Hellnar.
Lóndrangar
Beautiful
Extraordinary landscape and gourmet food. The nearby beach is quite unique, with black lava formations contrasting against the pale sand.
12 locals recommend
Hotel Búdir
356 BúðirExtraordinary landscape and gourmet food. The nearby beach is quite unique, with black lava formations contrasting against the pale sand.
Hellnar is nestled below the glacier at the ocean’s edge and has spectacular cliffs teaming with birds.
23 locals recommend
Hellnar
Hellnar is nestled below the glacier at the ocean’s edge and has spectacular cliffs teaming with birds.
Incredible lava fields. 4000 years old lava from a small row of craters below Kerlingarskarð passes, the largest crater being Rauðakúla.
Berserkjahraun
BerserkjahraunIncredible lava fields. 4000 years old lava from a small row of craters below Kerlingarskarð passes, the largest crater being Rauðakúla.
Eldborg Crater
Cool
Is a place worth visiting. Check out their little farmer’s church from 1856 and enjoy the beautiful surrounding, learn about the processing of shark meat and taste this traditional icelandic delicacy.
Bjarnarhöfn
Is a place worth visiting. Check out their little farmer’s church from 1856 and enjoy the beautiful surrounding, learn about the processing of shark meat and taste this traditional icelandic delicacy.
Stykkishólmshöfn
Nice sightseeing
Incredible tiny island with birds, sealife, walking, gourmet food, the smallest library in the world etc.
6 locals recommend
Flatey
Incredible tiny island with birds, sealife, walking, gourmet food, the smallest library in the world etc.
An unusual and colourful mountain containing basalt and rhyolite, with lignite between layers and fossilized tree-trunks.
Drapuhlidharfjall
An unusual and colourful mountain containing basalt and rhyolite, with lignite between layers and fossilized tree-trunks.
Súgandiseyjarviti
SæbrautGreat sightseeing with a lighthouse
Everything Else
Olís Stykkishólmur
Coffee, candy and gas
Austurgata
AusturgataIf you need to see a doctor
Shopping
Skipavík
NesvegurHardwarestore and local liquor store
Bókaverzlun Breiðafjarðar
BorgarbrautScandinavian style shopping