North of Husavik the road traces the Tjornes Peninsula with its varied and beautiful coastal landscapes: sheltered bays, offshore islands, high cliffs and beaches littered with driftwood brought over...

Dimmuborgir ‘Dark Fortresses’ are found on the east side of Lake Myvatn, off road 848. When lava flowed into a marshy basin over 2000 years ago, steam escaped through vents and around them the lava so...

The Bjarnarflag Geothermal Station in the Lake Myvatn area is the smallest geothermal station owned by Landsvirkjun and the first of its kind in Iceland. The station generates 3 MW, using the steam fr...

East of the bridge over the river Jokulsa á Fjollum on road 1, take a short detour onto gravel road F88 to Hrossaborg (horse fortress), an explosion crater. The 500m in diameter crater is thought to h...

Zeolites are beautiful elongated crystals, looking a bit like snowflakes. There are several types - scolecite, stilbite, and heulandite - but all are minerals formed over time in rock cavities and fis...

The eerie volcanic landscape of Lake Kleifarvatn is somber and almost spooky. The lake is sited on the mid-Atlantic rift and has been formed by subsidence.  Curiously no rivers flow in or out of it!  ...

Rakkaberg is the name of a prominent dike, just outside Djupivogur by road 1, where it meets the turning to the village.  Dykes are volcanic features formed when magma cools inside a fissure in the ea...

Kerid is a volcanic crater lake located in Grimsnes and is a popular stop in the Golden Circle just North of the main road 1. Believed that originally Kerid was a cone volcano that erupted and emptied...

Duration: allow one hour for this circular walk. Difficulty: easy walk on trails. Interest: history, culture, geology and a beautiful waterfall. Start/end of walk: from route 361 along the la...

Blabjorg cliffs are a national monument on the north shore of Berufjordur. Meaning 'blue cliffs', though actually more green than blue, the cliffs are formed of Berufjordur acid tuff, an ignimbrite of...