Driver guides
Get aquainted with your driver-guide in advance!
Here is a list of some of Isafold's professionals. To increase the number of the guides and therefore the variety in skill and specialization no one of the driver guides is permanently employed by the company. All our driver-guides are employed on a freelance basis. This allows for a greater flexibility in matching driver-guides with the needs of our guests.
Bragi Ragnarsson
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Born: First half last century
Education: Business Administration and Iceland Tourist Guide School
Main Occupation: Tourist Guide
Guide's specialization: Hiking, Nature, History, Culture, Geology and Contemporary Iceland.
Foreign Languages: English and Scandinavian Languages
Guiding Experience: Hiking since 1996 and Driver-Guiding since 2005
Motto: Life moves pretty fast, if you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it!
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Friðrik Brekkan
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Born: 1951
Education: Public Affairs, Social welfare education
Main Occupation: Tour guide and consultant
Guide's specialization: Overall knowledge
Foreign Languages: English, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, German, Spanish, Italian, French (Portuguese)
Guiding Experience: My first assignment was as a summer guide at the Iceland State run tourist bureau in 1965 as a very young boy and since then I have been addicted to the tourist industry mainly as a tour guide in Iceland and many other countries.
Motto: Every moment is valuable and a learning experience.
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Haukur Snorrason
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Born: 1968
Education: Professional photographer since 1992, Private pilot since 1990
Main Occupation: Professional photography and building up and improving
one of the largest online imagebank of Icelandic landscape photographs; www.photos.is
Guide's Specialization: Photographic sceenery tours
Foreign Languages: English
Guiding Experience: location and photo scouting since 1998
Motto: Experience Iceland
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Helgi Guðmundsson
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Born: 1947
Education: BA (Icelandic, English, History), Ranger
Main Occupation: Teacher (High school)
Guide's Specialization: Birds, Geology, Nature Sciences, the Icelandic Sagas
Foreign Languages: English, Nordic languages, German
Guide Experience: Approximately since 1980
Motto: You learn as long as you live.
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Hinrik Bjarnason
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Born: hardly
Education: Musician
Main Occupation: Music teacher (Guitar)
Guide's specialization: General
Foreign Languages: German, English
Guiding Experience: long – got Iceland Travel's qualification/award as guide of the year 2000
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Jón Baldur Þorbjornsson
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Born: 23. juni 1955
Education: Dipl.-Ing.(FH) Fahrzeugtechnik and Automechanics, authorized tourist guide
Main Occupation: Tourist guiding and travel business
Guide's specialization: Energy and automotive technics
Foreign Languages: German, English, Swedish (Scandinavian
Guiding Experience: Tourist guide since last century
Motto: Improve yourself!
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Niels Rask Vendelbjerg
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Born: 1955
Education: Linguistics
Main Occupation: Translator, interpreter
Guide's specialization: Highland groups
Foreign Languages: English, French, German, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish
Guiding Experience: Since 1988
Motto: Iceland is the greatest!
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Pétur Gauti Valgeirsson
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Born: 07 may 1970, Reykjavík
Education: Master in Philosophy from Charles University in Prague (Karlova Universita)
Main Occupation: Tour guide
Guide's specialization: Birds, Geology, Photography
Foreign Languages: English
Guiding Experience: Leiðsöguskóli Íslands 2000, guide since 2000, full time since 2001. Driver guide since 2002.Been with foreign visitors to most parts of Iceland, and with Icelanders to Prague (and other parts of Czech Rep), Germany, Italy, Finland, Russia (St. Peterbourgh), Estonia
Motto: Expect the unexpected
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Sigurgeir Þorbjörnsson
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Born: Long, long time ago
Education: Teacher, Environmental Sciences
Main Occupation: Guiding
Guide's specialization: Geology, Foresting, Hiking, Biking, Photographing
Foreign Languages: English, German, Swedish
Guiding Experience: Since 1977
Motto: I'm an Icelandic cowboy...
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Sólrún Jónsdóttir (Sóla)
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Born: ?
Education: BA in Humanities from New College of CA, BA and MS in Photography from Brooks Institute of Photography.
Main Occupation: Guide, Photographer
Guide's specialization: General and Photography
Foreign Languages: English, Danish, German, French
Guiding Experience: 20 years of everything…
Hiking, driver guiding, hotel tours, camping tours, jeep tours, custom groups etc.
Motto: Live a good life
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Stefán Helgi Valsson
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Born: March 26, 1968.
Education: MA degree; Tourism and Leisure Studies, Journalism, Education for High School, Adult Education. Qualified from the Iceland Tourist Guide School as; General Interest Guide, Adventure and Incentive Guide, Hiking Guide. Qualified from the Environment Agency of Iceland as a National Park Ranger
Main Occupation: Tourist guide, University lecturer, journalist and photographer
Guide's specialization: General interest, journalists, photography, hiking.
Foreign Languages: English
Guiding Experience: Full-time, driver guide in South Africa and in Iceland, since 1988.
Motto: Never underestimate the value of a seasoned tourist guide.
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Vilhjálmur Goði Friðriksson
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Born: 01-11-72
Education: Film and TV(production), multimedia school, Icelandic Guide school.
Main Occupation: Tourist Guide
Guide's specialization: Multi Tasking
Foreign Languages: English, Moderate danish.
Guiding Experience: Incentive tours, super jeep tours, golden circle tours, around Iceland.
Motto: It's good to have a motto!
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