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Tröllakirkja signpost above Þórsmörk. Photo: rheins, CC BY 3.0 The Tindfjallahringur trail ("the Tindfjöll circle") is the classic half-day loop hike in Þórsmörk, the birch-wooded valley between the glaciers Eyjafjallajökull, Mýrdalsjökull and Tindfjallajökull in South Iceland. It circles Tindfjöll

Langidalur, Þórsmörk, below Eyjafjallajökull. Photo: Ray Swi-hymn, CC BY-SA 2.0 Snorrariki Cave (Icelandic: Snorraríki, "Snorri's realm") is a small cave in the palagonite tuff of Þórsmörk, the birch

Hólmsárfoss is a waterfall on the Hólmsá river at the southern edge of Iceland's highlands, east of Mýrdalsjökull glacier. It lies right beside the mountain road F232, where the river marks the boundary between the Skaftártunga and Álftaver highland commons, about 64 km from Vík. It's a sum

Öldufell mountain is an 810-metre (2,657 ft) peak on the north-eastern edge of Mýrdalsjökull in the southern highlands of Iceland, on the margin of the black-sand desert of Mælifellssandur. The name means "wave mountain" (*alda* is a wave or a long ridge, *fell* a mountain), and the outlet glacier that pushes down from Mýrdalsjökull beside it is ca

Lower Hólmsá from a road bridge. Photo: Eysteinn Guðni Guðnason, CC BY 4.0 The Hólmsá river is a highland river in South Iceland that rises in Hólmsárbotnar south-east of Torfajökull, flows through the lake Hólmsárlón and down through Skaftártunga to join the great glacial river Kúðafljót. It is a

Mælifell from Mælifellssandur. Photo: PeterRYV, CC BY-SA 4.0 Vedurhals (Veðurháls, "Weather Ridge") is a low highland ridge on the northern edge of Mælifellssandur in Iceland's southern Highlands, immediately north-west of the green cone of Mælifell and about 3.5 km south of the Strútur mountain hu

Mælifell on Mælifellssandur. Photo: PeterRYV, CC BY-SA 4.0 Slysaalda ("accident ridge") is a low ridge of black sand on the western edge of Mælifellssandur, the volcanic desert north of Mýrdalsjökull in the southern highlands of Iceland. It lies just off Fjallabaksleið syðri, the southern Fjallabak

Ytri-Rangá with Hekla behind. Photo: Ulrich Latzenhofer, CC BY-SA 2.0 Ytri-Rangá ("the Outer Crooked River", also West Rangá) is a 55 km spring-fed river in South Iceland that rises north of Hekla an

Kayaking on Langadæl at Stokkseyri Langadæl (in Icelandic usually heard in its inflected form Löngudæl, "the long hollow") is a small, shallow lake on the northern edge of the village of Stokkseyri o

Hraunsá river (Icelandic: Hraunsá, "lava river") is a short, slow lowland river on the south coast of Iceland that drains the wetlands west of the village of Stokkseyri and reaches the sea between Sto

Stampar Crater Row is a dramatic chain of 13th-century volcanic craters that cuts through the rugged lava fields of Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula. Read on and learn about what makes them special, and how to visit. The surreal, moonlike terrain of the Stampar Crater Row is the kind of place that mak

Fossálar cascades below the Síða cliffs. Photo: Alexander Grebenkov, CC BY 3.0 The Fossálar river (the name means "waterfall channels") is a spring-fed river that spills over a series of low, wide cascades right beside the Ring Road on Síða in South Iceland, about 15 km east of Kirkjubæjarklaustur.

Orrustuhóll in mossy Brunahraun lava. Photo: Hansueli Krapf, CC BY-SA 3.0 Orrustuholl (Orrustuhóll, "Battle Hill") is a flat-topped hill that stands alone in the Skaftáreldahraun lava field on the Síða district of South Iceland, just south of the Ring Road between Dverghamrar and the Hverfisfljót r

Árbæjarfoss on Ytri-Rangá. Photo: Bromr, CC BY-SA 3.0 Árbæjarfoss waterfall is a wide, low fall in the Ytri-Rangá river in South Iceland, about 4 km north of the village of Hella as the crow flies an

The Volcanic Way is a scenic route that winds through the heart of South Iceland’s most active volcanic regions. Stretching from the Reykjanes Peninsula to Vatnajokull Glacier, it follows a path forg

Grashagakvísl on the Laugavegur trail. Photo: Chmee2/Valtameri, CC BY 3.0 Grashagakvísl is a cold highland river on the Laugavegur trail in the southern highlands of Iceland, between the Hrafntinnusker plateau and the lake Álftavatn. It is the first unbridged river most Laugavegur hikers have to wa

Meradalir fissure eruption, August 2022. Photo: Drumstick21, CC BY-SA 4.0 Meradalir (Icelandic: Meradalir, "the mares' valleys") is a group of shallow valleys on the east side of Fagradalsfjall mount

Braided Syðri-Ófæra at dusk. Photo: Janko Hoener, CC BY-SA 4.0 Syðri-Ófæra ("the southern impassable one") is a cold highland river in the Fjallabak area of South Iceland, on the eastern side of the Eldgjá volcanic fissure. It rises in the hills east of the Torfajökull glacier, gathers the spring-f