The Guesthouse at Mjoeyri is open for guests all year round. We look forward to welcoming you to our beautiful place in Eskifjodur.
Please contact us for further information :-) e-mail: mjoeyri@vortex.is

In Fjardabyggd there are many beautiful hiking trails of varying degrees of difficulty to accommodate all levels of hikers.

HIKING IN THE FJARÐABYGGÐ REGION OF EAST ICELAND
Mjóeyri guesthouse is located in the heart of the Fjaðabyggð (Fiord Settlements) district of East Iceland, a spectacular landscape of misty fiords, craggy mountains and long green valleys linked by a network of marked and unmarked hiking trails along routes that have nostly been used for hundreds of years. Since much of the country is open and easy to travel in good visibility, even the more popular routes are usually just marked with stakes, although there are also a few reasonably well-worn paths, especially where old horse tracks remain around the coast. Local hiking maps are available showing all the main marked and unmarked routes along with key GPS points and summaries in English of all the marked trails. It is also hoped that in over the next few years a handbook will be produced in English giving detailed descriptions of all the hiking routes in this part of East Iceland.

Hiking Week (Gönguvikan) in the Fjaðabyggð region
A highlight of the summer calendar in East Iceland is Hiking Week (Gönguvikan) in the Fjarðabyggð district which begins on the Saturday preceding the longest day (23 June) and runs through to the following Saturday. With late June being the time of year when the "nights" stay brightest but there is still plenty of snow on the higher slopes Hiking Week has rapidly become very popular with the local people with about 600 taking part in 2009. While adverse weather can (and does) occur at any time of the year in Iceland, late June also often bring periods of settled sunny weather to the East Fiords. In this regard it is worth noting the not a single trip in Hiking Week in either 2008 or 2009 had to be cancelled because of bad weather (although there were also a couple of trips each year which required more or less continuous use of both warm and waterproof clothing).

Features of the week include
- Longer (4-7 hours) and shorter (1-3 hours) walks each day along with at least two walks through the bright nights of Iceland´s endless late June daylight;
- The challenge of ascending five peaks in five days (Monday to Friday);
- Nature study adventures for children from Monday to Friday;
- Evening entertainments each night - either a bonfire and music on the beach at Mjóeyri or performances in a large nearby historic sea-house (Randulf´s Sjóhús).