Discovering Iceland with Hidden Iceland’s Small Sustainable Tours
There is perhaps no other more mystifying place on earth than Iceland. Known as “the Land of Fire and Ice”, Iceland is home to extreme geological contrasts being blessed with some of the largest...
View ArticleA Hike up to Iceland’s Newest Volcano: Fagradalsfjall
On July 29, our family of four took our first trip out of the country since before the pandemic to the magical, surreal landscape of Iceland. I had first visited Iceland back in 2008 with my father and...
View ArticleIceland: Two days in Mývatn and Krafla, Iceland
Day Five of our Ring Road Trip around Iceland found our family of four arriving early afternoon at Mývatn Lake, probably one of the most geologically fascinating places I’ve ever been in my life. By...
View ArticleA Stay in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
Nestled at the bottom of the rugged Fjarðarheiði mountain pass at the end of a long, narrow fjord in Eastern Iceland is the magical coastal town of Seyðisfjörður. Given its remote location (it is about...
View ArticleTravel during a pandemic: When things go wrong
We were seven days into our ten-day Ring Road Trip around Iceland when our long-awaited family trip turned upside down. That morning, after a lovely hike along the waterfalls outside the coastal town...
View ArticleTravel During the Pandemic: A Visit to Jökulsárlón
I rose late after a restless night of endless tossing and turning and worry. The perfect trip that I had planned for our family to Iceland had been drastically altered. I tried to think about the...
View ArticleRing Road Trip Around Iceland: Hike to Skaftafell Glacier
Curving alongside the southeastern tip of Iceland lies the immense Vatnajökull, the largest ice cap outside of the poles which has over 30 glacial tongues sliding down its mystical ice mass to the...
View ArticleRing Road Trip Around Iceland: The Beauty of Vik
At the southern tip of Iceland, only a few short hours drive from Reykjavik lies the lovely, quaint coastal village of Vik. This mystical seaside town is a beautiful place surrounded by long black sand...
View ArticleAn afternoon in Keflavik: Exploring the Reykjanes Peninsula
After nine days of driving around Iceland’s majestic Ring Road, our very last stop was where it all began, in Keflavik, home of the international airport, the infamous Blue Lagoon, Iceland’s newest...
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