Viktor Sveinsson is the founder and CEO of North Rovers. Viktor has been an avid traveler since he backpacked Africa and Asia 1987. Up the river of Nile from Cairo to Lake Victoria, did Kathmandu and India as it was done in these days before internet and cell phones, lived in a hut on Koh Samui for some time and got lost in Bangkok. Few years later, on a brake from his advertisement carrier, he was offered a boat, house and a wife on the remote Micronesian island of Woleai. He declined and returned to Iceland where he bought the legendary Hotel Búðir on a mystical peninsula called Snaefellsnes where he spent 10 years searching for the entrance to the centre of the World that Jules Verne promised to be found there.
During his years at Búðir Viktor avoided foreign countries but spent his free time crossing Iceland on horses. With each expedition learning more about his island as well as his fascination with the Sagas and Icelandic legends grew deeper.
Viktor sold Hotel Búdir at the end of 2003 and spent next years back on the Asian trails rediscovering his passion for the exotic and strange parts of that continent. He founded The Oriental Travel in 2006 with its headquarters in Thailand. Viktor divides his time between Asia and Iceland.
His favourite spots in Iceland are; Búðir, Flatey, Öxnadalur, Mývatn, Þingvellir and Ölfus.
Viktor can be reached at viktor@northrovers.com
Davíð Sigurþórsson made many hiking and camping trips, long and short, to the country side with family and friends during his childhood and early adulthood. As is often the case, however, growing up in Iceland he came to take for granted the amazing nature and many unusual features of the landscape that this rugged – yet green – volcanic island is known for. While he certainly enjoyed the outdoors and the adventures they had to offer, he failed to fully appreciate the uniqueness of the natural wonders that lie at every turn in Iceland: 'here's a huge waterfall, over there a volcano, and a glacier, another waterfall, lava fields, hot springs, yet another waterfall… what´s the big deal?'
It was not until having traveled and lived abroad (in Europe, the Middle East and SE-Asia) for over a decade that he began to truly appreciate the unparalleled wonder that is Iceland´s pristine nature, not to mention the clean mountain air and water.
During winter David lives with his family in Sweden (where he´s pursuing a PhD in applied ethics) but every summer he returns to Iceland to guide travelers – and to get back to the Icelandic nature.
Ultimately, after several years of working as a tour guide in Iceland and experiencing the country through the wide open eyes of foreign visitors, mesmerized by the vistas before them, it has become clear that David is Iceland´s number one fan!”
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