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Free Time Activities

The evenings are mostly free for your own activity.

Students staying in Ísafjörður can enjoy discovering the town´s quaint bakeries, wandering the streets, and exploring the coastline. In Ísafjörður you can go swimming and much more. You can climb up several mountains and explore the beautiful nature all around.  Make sure to bring hiking boots and outdoor clothing that is appropriate for the changeable weather.

 

In Ísafjörður, you might want to stay a day longer or arrive earlier.  In the summer time you can take a trip to Vigur island or a one or two day trip to Hornstrandir. The Hornstrandir nature reserve lies to the north of Ísafjörður, across Ísafjarðardjúp. The area can only be reached by boat. The last permanent residents left in the 1960s, and now nature is taking over old cultivated land. If you go, you will be in tranquil wilderness - no cars, no roads, and no telephones! For more information go to www.westfjords.is or www.vesturferdir.is.


Our community

"My fellow students are so lovely and you learn more in a good group. The staff and the teachers at the University Center do everything they can to help and to make the course interesting and fun. All I can say is: Come to Ísafjörður and see how exciting it is to learn Icelandic!"

Hilde De Vaere, Belgium, 3-Weeks Course in Icelandic and Culture 2010

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The Biosphere of Icelandic Springs
On March 29 at 12.15 - 12.45 Dr. Bjarni K. Kristjánsson will give a talk on the biosphere of Icelandic springs. His talk will be in Icelandic and shown via video conference at the ......
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