If seeing the northern lights is on your bucket list, Iceland is one of the best places to make that dream come true. The northern lights, or aurora borealis, have been mesmerizing people for ...

On a cold December night, I’m standing in a pitch-dark lava field in Iceland, with dozens of strangers, searching the sky for the aurora borealis — the northern lights. Occasionally, the quiet is ...

Seeing the northern lights is a pinnacle life experience. And watching the ever-shifting lights flicker in the sky above mountains, glaciers and vast lava fields is particularly breathtaking. In ...

Akureyri, Iceland • Police in Iceland have a warning for visitors: Beware our roads in the winter. Spending a clear winter night under an Arctic sky lit up by spectacular streaks of color from the ...

It was 9:15 in the morning but, this being Northern Iceland, the sun was just peaking over the mountainous horizon, bathing the landscape in hues of pink. I was standing atop a crater and looking out ...

Reykjavik's Hallgrimskirkja church is impressive enough, but even more so with a northern lights display as a backdrop. Iceland is a hot travel destination right now, and not just because of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Nikel is a travel writer covering cruising and Scandinavia. The port of Isafjordur in the westfjords region of Iceland has ...