Mount Esja
The blue mountain directly behind.
Jakec — CC BY-SA 3.0 · NASA/JPL — Public domain · Ray Swi-hymn from Sijhih-Taipei, Taiwan — CC BY-SA 2.0 · john.purvis — CC BY 2.0
The long sunsets of May-July, or winter at noon when the sun sits low; avoid summer midday for the coach crowds.
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A steel skeleton like a bare-boned Viking ship on the sea promenade: Sólfar, the Sun Voyager, is Jón Gunnar Árnason's sculpture (1990) marking two hundred years since Reykjavik's founding as a town — and the most photographed thing in the city after the church. The sculptor denied it was a Viking ship: he called it "a dream boat, an ode to the sun", carrying the promise of new land, hope and progress — and its northward heading, where the midnight sun sets in summer, makes the midnight photograph in June legendary. It stands on the Sæbraut coastal walk between Harpa and the old harbour, with the bay and blue Mount Esja directly behind. Free and always open, a natural stop on the waterfront walk.
The blue mountain directly behind.
From Harpa to the old harbour along the sea.
Sæbraut, Reykjavik