Reykjavík
🗓 1–2 daysCompact capital and tour base.
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Where to go
Top places in Iceland
The destinations worth building your trip around.
Drive the Golden Circle and South Coast for waterfalls, geysers and glaciers, soak in the Blue Lagoon, and chase the aurora in winter.
The Ring Road circles the whole island for the ultimate nature road trip.
The destinations worth building your trip around.
Ready-made routes — tap a duration to see the plan.
Compact capital and tour base.
Geysers, Gullfoss and Þingvellir.
The full-island scenic loop.
Compact capital and tour base.
Geysers, Gullfoss and Þingvellir.
The full-island scenic loop.
Compact capital and tour base.
Geysers, Gullfoss and Þingvellir.
The full-island scenic loop.
Visa rules change frequently. Visa-exempt nationals will need ETIAS; others a Schengen visa. Always verify with the official Iceland immigration / e-visa website before travelling.
Geysir, Gullfoss and the rift valley.
Geothermal spa near the airport.
Glacier lagoon and Diamond Beach.
Aurora hunting from September to March.
Skógafoss, Seljalandsfoss and Reynisfjara.
Iceland's Golden Falls — a two-tiered cascade dropping 32 m into a chasm, the headline stop on the…
A 60-m-wide curtain on Iceland's south coast with steep stairs to the top — rainbows almost always present…
Volcanic-black sand under basalt sea stacks and a wave-cut cliff — never enter the water (sneaker waves kill).
A 60-m Icelandic curtain you can walk completely behind — best at sunset when the falls glow gold…
A 30-m semicircular Icelandic falls — the "Waterfall of the Gods" where pagan idols were thrown in around…
Crystal-blue glacial ice caves beneath Europe's largest ice cap — guided tours only, formed fresh each winter.
A rainbow rhyolite-mountain "desert" in Iceland's highlands — hot springs, obsidian fields and the Laugavegur trailhead.
A 4-day 55-km Icelandic classic from geothermal pools to Þórsmörk — rainbow rhyolite mountains and obsidian fields.
The world's largest Atlantic puffin colony — 8 M birds on the Westman Islands, summer ferry from Landeyjahöfn.
Europe's most powerful waterfall — 200 m³ of glacial meltwater per second crashing 45 m into the Jökulsá…
A 25-km Icelandic day hike from Skógafoss to Þórsmörk — crosses fresh 2010 lava between Eyjafjallajökull and Mýrdalsjökull.
The 2010 eruption volcano under an ice cap — Thórsmörk valley walks and the Fimmvörðuháls trail run between…
