# What to do in Reykjavik, Iceland for two days?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Tags:** vacation-travel\
**Created:** [February 18, 2024, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-in-reykjavik-iceland-for-two-days/997740 "2024-02-18T21:32:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 18, 2024, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-in-reykjavik-iceland-for-two-days/997740/4 "2024-02-18T23:06:09Z")

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There was a fairly recent thread:

> [@One day in Reykjavík - what to see?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-day-in-reykjavik-what-to-see/988270/4):
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> I’ll second the Golden Circle. We spent a full day in Reykjavik and kept busy enough, but GC is unmatched.

And older threads:

> [@Going To Reykjavik! Any suggestions??](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-reykjavik-any-suggestions/657395):
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> My middle/older sister is celebrating her 50th birthday and we’re traveling to Reykjavik for a week! Looks awesome! Vikings, glaciers, geysers, oh my! Who has been there or lives there? I’d love any suggestions about food, bars, pastimes. Anything! Especially languages. I work with subtitles from almost any dialect-- EXCEPT Iclandic. I’m hoping my broken French and German might help. But how often is English spoken in Reykjavik city? What’s really cool is we rented a 5 bedroom apartment for si…

> [@Fiver takes Reykjavik](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fiver-takes-reykjavik/64337):
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> So here I am in the world´s northernmost capital city. I´m terribly jetlagged, but determined to make a full day of it before I crash. I´ve stopped in at a youth center with free-use Internet connections to check my mail and say hi to all of you. It´s chilly but not excessively so: in the 40s Fahrenheit. I´m headed for the museums, which have (predictably) scads of Viking history and artifacts. Later I´ll check out the night life. Tomorrow I´ll learn firsthand why this Blue Lagoon thing is suc…

> [@Anyone Ever Been To Reykjavik, Iceland?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-been-to-reykjavik-iceland/120798):
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> For some reason I have always wanted to go there and I cannot pinpoint why. I think I saw some travel special on it and it looked fun and interesting and not the usual place to go. So has anyone been there? What’s it like? I hear it is a fun place.

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