Reykjavik Viking Trails Self Guided City Exploration Game

You'll start your adventure at Hallgrímskirkja: a Viking-age settler's saga that unfolds one chapter at a time as you walk. At each stop the app explains where you are and what happened there, then hands you a puzzle to solve from the details around you. Solve it and the next chapter and the walking directions unlock.

You begin at the rainbow street of Óðinstorg, continue to the statue of Ingólfur Arnarson, Reykjavík's first settler, pass the Icelandic Phallological Museum and the Reykjavík Art Museum, then reach Austurvöllur square and the parliament that grew out of the Althing of 930. From there the route follows the pond to the Iðnó theatre, the bandstand in Hljómskálagarður park and the statue of the poet Tómas Guðmundsson, and ends in Fógetagarður, the garden where Skúli Magnússon set up the town's first workshops in the 1750s.

Expect about 3 km and 90 to 120 minutes at an easy pace. Stop for coffee whenever you like and pick the story up again later; hints are built into the app and our chat support answers around the clock.