The South3 places
- Landmannalaugar (the rainbow mountains)Mountains streaked red, green, and blue rise over a valley where a hot river runs warm enough to bathe in, and for most…
- The South Coast & Ring RoadThe stretch of Route 1 where Iceland unloads everything at once: waterfalls you can walk behind, a beach of black sand…
- GjáinA small green valley hidden in the middle of a black volcanic plain — waterfalls, basalt columns and moss packed into a…
The East & Highlands1 place
- Jökulsárlón (the glacier lagoon)Icebergs the size of houses break off a glacier and drift across a lagoon that didn't exist a century ago, then wash up…
Reykjavík & the Southwest1 place
- Reykjavík & the Golden CircleThe world's northernmost capital — small enough to cross on foot, with a concrete church like a basalt organ pipe on…
The West & Westfjords1 place
- The WestfjordsThe peninsula almost nobody drives to — a clenched fist of fjords in Iceland's northwest, connected to the rest of the…