Golden Circle Tour

The Golden Circle is Iceland’s most popular day trip, and for good reason.You get to see the original Geysir, and having Gullfoss waterfall in front of you is worth a day trip on its own.Þingvellir is a national park, nature reserve, Unesco World Heritage site, and is split by the Mid-Atlantic Rift. We will start the day in Þingvellir, where the Parliament of Iceland was founded in 930 AD. There, you will get a view from “the edge of America” over the Mid-Atlantic continental divide.Continuing, we will pass the geothermal heated Laugarvatn lake before arriving at the Great Geysir hot spring area, peppered with small and large boiling water springs. The most spectacular one, Strokkur, blasts boiling water up to 30m high, up to 3 times per minute.After some quality time at Geysir, a short drive will take us to Iceland’s most visited glacier, Gullfoss, where glacier meltwater thunders in two stages into a 70m deep basalt canyon. In the afternoon, we will head back again and traverse the South Iceland agricultural heartland on our way home to Reykjavik.