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Things to do in Höfn

A fishing town of about 1,800 people on a low spit in Hornafjörður, roughly 455 kilometres from Reykjavík on the Ring Road and surrounded by sea on three sides. Langoustine landed here gives the town its kitchen reputation, and the Skinney-Þinganes plant is among the largest fish processors in east Iceland. Vatnajökull fills the inland horizon, which makes Höfn the eastern base for the glacier lagoons, Skaftafell and the winter ice caves. The Almannaskarð tunnel, opened in 2005, carries Route 1 east out of town and cut the old winter closures.

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Things to do

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  1. Diamond Beach

    Diamond Beach

    Beach · 1 hr

    Glacier ice on black sand, restocked by every tide, so no two visits show the same beach.

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  2. Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon

    Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon

    Lake · 1 hr

    The clearest place in the country to watch a retreating glacier at work, with its ice drifting within metres of the road.

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  3. Stokksnes and Vestrahorn

    Stokksnes and Vestrahorn

    Mountain · 30 min

    One of the few places in Iceland where a mountain of this size meets the water with nothing in between.

  4. Fjallsárlón Glacier Lagoon

    Lake · 1 hr

    A tighter, quieter lagoon where the glacier stands at the far bank rather than kilometres up the valley.

  5. Hofskirkja

    Church · 1.5 hr

    The final building in a tradition that housed Icelandic worship for centuries, kept in service rather than in a museum.

  6. Skaftafell

    Park · 1.5 hr

    Birch woodland, outwash desert and two glacier tongues sit inside a single afternoon of walking.

  7. Svartifoss

    Waterfall · 1.5 hr

    The clearest columnar basalt in Iceland, and the form that shaped the facade of Hallgrímskirkja in Reykjavík.

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