HOLIDAYS TO ICELAND

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SOUTH

DAY 1 UK- REYKJAVÍK Scheduled Icelandair flight to Reykjavík. Collect hire car at the airport, drive to and overnight at Hotel Fludir for 4 nights.

DAY 2 THE SOUTH COAST After breakfast, drive along the coast stopping at Seljalandsfoss and Skógafoss on the way to Dyrhólæy’s bird cliffs and black sand beaches.

DAY 3 EYARBAKKI & STOKKSEYRI Visit the greenhouse village of Hverageri, a sort of giant geothermally heated garden centre -even the local church has tiny geysers spouting alongside it. Afterwards pop down to the coast and Eyarbakki, a colourful little place with rather more traditional clapboard buildings than the average Icelandic village and to Stokkesyri rounding off your day with a plate of lobster in the village’s waterside restaurant.

DAY 4 GEYSIR-GULLFOSS After breakfast, drive up to the Geysir area where Strokkur spouts impressively every 5 to 10 minutes, alongside of which there are steaming fumaroles, hot springs and pools, some a dark muddy grey and others a translucent turquoise. Then on to Gullfoss, the golden waterfall, where the glacial river Hvítá plummets 32 metres before twisting and tumbling down a large gorge. End your day with a visit to Pingvellir, always mystically beautiful but particularly tranquil in late afternoon when the day tour visitors have left.

DAY 5 REYKJAVÍK – UK After breakfast drive along the moss clad lava Reykjanes peninsula to the Blue Lagoon for a valedictory bathe before, dropping your car off at the airport and return flight to UK.

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