Things to do
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Diamond Beach
Glacier ice on black sand, restocked by every tide, so no two visits show the same beach.
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Fjallsárlón Glacier Lagoon
A tighter, quieter lagoon where the glacier stands at the far bank rather than kilometres up the valley.
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Hofskirkja
The final building in a tradition that housed Icelandic worship for centuries, kept in service rather than in a museum.
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Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon
You can watch icebergs break off Breiðamerkurjökull and drift down a short channel to the sea, from a car park on the shore beside the ring road. Boats run in summer only, and none at all in midwinter.
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Skaftafell
Birch woodland, outwash desert and two glacier tongues sit inside a single afternoon of walking.
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Stokksnes and Vestrahorn
One of the few places in Iceland where a mountain of this size meets the water with nothing in between.
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Svartifoss
Walk the full loop rather than going to the falls and back. It adds only half an hour, and takes you over Sjónarsker, the high point, and past an old turf farm on the way down.
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