The Iceland year-book - 01.01.1927, Blaðsíða 53

Reykjavik, the United Steamship Company of
Copenhagen, and the Bergen Steamship Company
of Bergen. The two first-named ply between Ice-
land, Great Britain, and Denmark, and the last
named between Iceland and Norway. For further
particulars see their respective advertisements.
Passports are not required for landing in Iceland-
Ordinary passenger luggage is exempt from im-
port duty in whatever form, and it is safe to say
that the customs officers studiously avoid need-
less or unreasonable interference and do not in-
convenience visitors beyond what is strictly neces-
sary for the observance of legal prescriptions.
As already mentioned, tourists are visiting Ice-
land on a constantly increasing scale. Extensive
particulars of routes and resorts in the country
cannot be entered into here. The inquring are
therefore advised to consult Captain Daniel Bruun’s
Iceland; Routes over the Highlands (Copenhagen
and Reykjavik 1907), or Prof. W. S. C. Russell’s
Iceland: Horseback Tours in Saga Land (Richard
Badger; Boston 1914) with regard to the longer
inland journeys, and Snpebjorn Jonsson’s Reykja-
vik and its Environs (Reykjavik 1922, Is net) for
shorter (motor) excursions from the capital. Long;
inland journeys have to be made on horseback,
and the baggage has to be transported in the same
way, usually packed in specially made boxes, one
on each side of the pony. A suitable load for a
pack pony is two boxes of four stone each. These
boxes may by hired in Reykjavik.
For riding purposes two ponies are required
for each person, changing from one to the other
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