Fjallabak – Behind The Mountains

We start the journey by traveling to the Unesco World Heritage site Þingvellir national park, where the Mid-Atlantic rift splits and the Icelandic parliament was founded over a thousand years ago. There, you get a view from “the edge of America” over the Mid-Atlantic continental divide. Continuing, we pass the geothermally heated Laugarvatn lake before arriving at the Great Geysir hot spring area, strewn hot springs of all sizes. The most spectacular one, Strokkur, blasts boiling water up to 30m skywards, up to 3 times in a minute. After some quality time at Geysir, a short drive takes us to Iceland’s most visited waterfall, Gullfoss, where glacier meltwater thunders in two stages into a 70m deep basalt canyon. In the afternoon, we head back again and traverse the South Iceland agricultural heartland on our way home to Reykjavík.