Description
Summary
Description
Explore the Silver Circle of West Iceland on this small-group tour, with a soak in the Husafell Canyon Baths. It suits travelers who want to see well-known sights and quieter places, and to relax in geothermal water.
Your guide picks you up at your hotel or a nearby meeting point in Reykjavik. You then travel along the Ring Road, past coastlines, mountains, and countryside, to the first sights of the Silver Circle.
Deildartunguhver Hot Spring is known as the most powerful hot spring in Europe, with more than 47 gallons (180 liters) of boiling water rising from the ground every second. Its water is also used for energy, providing hot water for many towns and villages in the region.
In Reykholt Village, you visit the home of the medieval chieftain and writer Snorri Sturluson, the village church, and Snorralaug Pool, a small hot spring where locals have bathed since the 12th century. Snorralaug is now a protected archaeological site and is mentioned in the medieval writings of Snorri Sturluson.
You then travel to Hraunfossar Waterfalls and Barnafoss Waterfall. Barnafoss, the "Children's Waterfall," rushes down a narrow gorge and is linked to a tragic local tale. Hraunfossar is a series of gentler falls pouring out of a lava field.
Next, you head to Husafell, a green area between Eiriksjokull Glacier and Langjokull Glacier, with birch forests and historic turf houses.
From Husafell, you continue in a 4WD vehicle along mountain tracks to Langifoss Waterfall, which drops in two tiers into Deildargil Canyon. The waterfall is barely marked on maps, so you may have it to yourselves.
The highlight of the tour is the Husafell Canyon Baths. These geothermal pools are built in the traditional stone style in an off-grid location, so you bathe surrounded by nature, much as the early Icelanders did.
After a day in West Iceland, you return to Reykjavik.
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