Eldheimar Museum
Visit the Eldheimer Museum and recount the events of the spontaneous Eldfell eruption in 1973 on Heimaey. Learn about the harrowing night with evacuation stories from the locals and rescuers who...
Hveragerdi Geothermal Park
The town of Hveragerdi is home to an active geothermal area where you can boil eggs or bake bread in the hot springs. Examine its mud pots and steaming pools, as well as learn about the area’s...
Snorkelling Through the Silfra Fissure
Experience the Mid Atlantic Ridge from a truly unique perspective as you snorkel through the Silfra fissure. You’ll get up close to the continental plates and discover the colourful marine life...
Reykjanes Geopark
The Reykjanes Peninsula’s landscape has been shaped by volcanic activity and boasts geothermal fields, volcanic craters, lava tubes and lava fields. View this divergent plate boundary’s...
LAVA Centre
This interactive, high-tech educational exhibition depicts the creation of Iceland over millions of years. With the opportunity to examine Iceland’s volcanoes, volcanic and rift systems, faults and...
Boat Tour Around Heimaey
Enjoy a 90-minute Viking Tours boat trip around Heimaey for views of the coastline, caves and cliffs and, if you’re lucky, you may spot the occasional whale!
Super Jeep Adventure
Take a Super Jeep Journey into the interior valleys, highlands, icecaps, glaciers and volcanoes of South Iceland. Travelling in 4×4s with Iceland’s Rescue Team drivers, this is one for the...
Reynisfjara Black Sand Beach
Near the village of Vík lies Reynisfjara black basalt beach. Take a relaxing stroll along the pebbly beach and see the impressive basalt columns in all their glory. Created by the cooling of lava,...
Gunnuhver Hot Springs
Gunnuhver is a highly active geothermal area, named after the female ghost, Gudrun, whose spirit was trapped in the hot springs 400 years ago. Walk along the two ramps amongst the bubbling mud pools...
Hellisheidi Geothermal Power Plant
This most recent Icelandic power plant harnesses the geothermal energy of the vast steam reservoirs that sit beneath the landscape of the Hengil area, part of the West Volcanic Zone. Producing both...
Blue Lagoon
The Blue Lagoon is an extensive lagoon of mineral-rich, geothermally-heated sea water. White silica in suspension in the water gives the lagoon an opaque appearance, whilst the blue-green algae...
Landmannalaugar
Encounter pumice fields, fissures, lava flows and explosion craters as you enter the wilderness of the interior, passing Mount Hekla en route. Walk amongst a rainbow of colours through black obsidian...