Iceland 2024

Golden Circle

There is a drive you can take called the Golden Circle. It really doesn’t need to be a circular drive because at the bottom of the circle is a ‘crater’, and I use quotes there because it’s not much of a crater (Crater Lake in Oregon is way better). So if you go to Iceland, just do a straight line from Reykjavik to Gullfoss and back.

The first stop is Þingvellir, where the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates are separating (slowly).

Þingvellir
Þingvellir

Next stop is Geyser (this is where the word geyser originated)

Geyser
Geyser

Last stop, Gullfoss. It was extremely windy here.

Gullfoss
High winds
Gullfoss
Gullfoss
Gullfoss