Akureyri

We stayed in Akureyri for three nights while visiting the northern area of Iceland. Akureyri is a cute little town. It doesn’t really look like it is little though. It looks like its population should be bigger than 17,000, but at times it felt like a ghost town. I am sure the hours differ during the summer, but when we were there, everything seemed to open late and close early, which made it difficult to do any shopping or see certain things. It is a nice town though, and it is certainly situated in a gorgeous location, in a fjord. It also has a really nice botanical garden, which features Cafe Bjork (of course).

View of Akureyri from across fjord

View of downtown, with the prominent church in foreground

Church near main shopping center

Downtown

The main shopping center

Old houses

Trolls on the main shopping street

The curry hut, of course

Botanical gardens

View of fjord from the city