Golden Circle Glacier Adventure

The Golden Circle is Iceland´s most popular day trip, and for good reason. You get to see the one and only original Geysir.Experiencing the Gullfoss waterfall is worth a day trip. Þingvellir is a national park, nature reserve, a Unesco World Heritage site, and is split by the Mid-Atlantic Rift. With the Super jeeps, we can also add the huge Langjökull glacier to your list of impressions.We will start the day in Þingvellir, where the Parliament of Iceland was founded in 930 AD. There, you 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 and up to 3 times per minute.After some quality time at Geysir, a short drive takes us to Gullfoss waterfall, Iceland’s most visited waterfall, where glacier meltwater thunders in two stages into a 70m deep basalt canyon.We then maneuver a gravel track snaking up mountains towards Europe’s second-largest glacier, Langjökull. There, a snowmobile ride is optional if pre-booked and depending on weather conditions and time of year. In the afternoon, we will descend again and traverse the South Iceland agricultural heartland on our way home to Reykjavik.