Iceland · July 2024
Iceland: Land of Fire and Ice
Iceland feels less like a country and more like a different planet, all steaming vents, thundering waterfalls and glaciers grinding to the sea. We built a summer week around its raw, otherworldly landscapes, with the bonus of near-endless daylight under the midnight sun.
Day by day
Days 1-2
Reykjavik and the Golden Circle
We found our feet in colorful, compact Reykjavik before heading out to the famous Golden Circle, where the earth hisses and spouts at the geysers, a great river crashes over the falls, and the continents themselves pull apart in a rift valley.
Days 3-5
Waterfalls, black sand and ice
We chased the dramatic south, standing behind curtain-like waterfalls, walking the eerie black-sand coast, and marveling at glaciers and lava fields. With the sun barely setting, the days stretched on gloriously long.
Days 6-8
Geothermal soak and farewell
We rounded out the week the Icelandic way, soaking in mineral-blue geothermal water surrounded by lava, before a reluctant goodbye to the land of fire and ice.
From the trip
Geysers, glaciers, black sand and the surreal glow of the midnight sun. Iceland is the kind of place that recalibrates your sense of what a landscape can be.
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