Duration: 2 hours. Difficulty: a gentle, steady climb of about 300m returning by the same route. Interest: two unusual and contrasting waterfalls. Start/End: park in the car park near the southern end...

Duration: 1-1.5 hours return hike. Difficulty: easy hike on a fairly level but in places rocky path. Interest: a lovely riverside walk to a beautiful three-tiered waterfall. Start/End: the trail start...

Kirkjufell, west of Grundarfjordur, is a beautiful mountain, eroded by glaciers on all four sides to form its unusual steeple-shaped summit. The vertiginous path leading up its steep north face is...

Gufufoss is a striking waterfall and one of many on the scenic River Fjardara, on its journey alongside the approach road to Seydisfjordur.   The vertical curtain of water plunges 27m over a basalt...

Few visitors succeed in pronouncing the name of this waterfall but if you want to try, gli-woofer-sour-foss should do the job!  To get there from Vopnafjordur, drive south on road 85 and then turn...

If you are approaching from the north, you may already have seen Godafoss falls.   Sharing the same river but totally different in character, Aldeyjarfoss is a stunning 20m high waterfall situated...

Hrafnabjargafoss is located about 5km upstream from Aldeyjarfoss.  Once you pass Aldeyjarfoss, the road becomes the F26, a mountain road only accessible in summer to high clearance four-wheel drive ve...

Thingvellir is Iceland’s first national park, established in 1930, and part of UNESCO’S World Heritage List since 2004. If there is one place that epitomises the spirit of Iceland, it is Thingvellir....

Baejarstadaskogur is a birch and rowan forest in Morsardalur valley just west of Skaftafell. In 1935 some 22 hectares of forest was fenced in and protected from grazing sheep. Now it is considered to...

Duration: about 1-1.5 hours each way. Difficulty: the first part of the walk as far as the river is easy. The river crossing requires concentration and the path becomes rocky and more challenging afte...