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Come For The View, Stay For The Food: Laugarás Lagoon Opens On The Golden Circle
It’s no secret that, from east to west, Iceland is sprinkled with spa-like geothermal lagoons catering to every taste. Just a few weeks ago, the latest addition to the country’s lagoon flora opened its doors in the southern stretch of the island.…
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Powered By Nature, Stalled By Infrastructure
Iceland’s EV reality falls short of its renewable promise The Golden Circle may promise epic scenery — but in an electric vehicle, the biggest question isn’t what you’ll see. It’s whether you’ll make it back with any battery left. In September 2024,…
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Touching Moss: Easy Day-Tripping From Reykjavík
Shake off your Airwaves hangover with a day trip that avoids the crowds Whenever Iceland Airwaves blows into town, it’s a certainty that people from all over the world will be riding that same breeze. It’s always an interesting time of year…
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The Good’Ol Golden Circle: Taking another spin on the classic travel route
Whether you live in Iceland, you’ve visited Iceland before, or you’re simply Googled “Iceland” in anticipation of one day travelling here, the probability is high that you’ve heard of the Golden Circle. The circuitous route just a stone’s throw from the capital…
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Exploring The South: Herstory And Day Drinking With Ladies In Film
While rushing looking for bus stop #6 I hoped to find a group of women that, like me, were arriving almost too late. Instead, a sea of confused tourists cramped the narrow sidewalk. As I was close to reaching for my phone…
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Hidden Iceland’s Golden Circle: One Ring To Rule Them All
What are the components of a perfect Golden Circle tour? Hidden Iceland, a company founded by three friends, may have perfected the formula—they show their customers the Iceland they’d show a visiting family member. With a maximum of 12 people per tour,…
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Alt Golden Circle: Lesser Known Spots On The Tourist Trail
The Golden Circle wasn’t always known as such. The first recorded mention of the Icelandic-language term “Gullni Hringurinn” was in 1979, on a RÚV radio show hosted by tour guide Birna G. Bjarnleifsdóttir. The listing for the item reads: “09:00: The Traveller.…
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Storms And Stampedes: A Grumpy Icelander Does The Golden Circle
The Golden Circle is the Icelandic travel standard. Like ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ as a Christmas movie, or beer as the drink of choice when meeting friends, the reason for its stature is obvious—it’s the best way to soak up the maximum…
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Reimagining The Golden Circle With Kexland
The “Golden Circle” is a 300-kilometre loop of road in southwestern Iceland, driveable in a day, that contains several of Iceland’s most popular sights. Lined up neatly along the mid-Atlantic ridge stand the Þingvellir national park, Iceland’s geysers (known simply as “Geysír,”…
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PHOTOS: Geysir And Strokkur In Winter Mode
Doing the Golden Circle during winter is preferred by some, because the sights are even more stunning in the snow – if you can withstand the cold. The sight that especially benefits from the snow is the Geysir area. Our photographer Art…
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This IS Iceland’s Bear Scene: Bears On Ice 2015
This past weekend, an international cavalcade of burly men inundated the City of Reykjavík and its surrounding natural wonders. Who were these burly men? What did they want? Why were so many of them wearing cargo shorts? They were the men of…
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The Langjökull Glacier Tour Is Great (If You’re Not Paranoid)
“Golden Circle! Langjökull glacier!” Our enthusiastic driver Hjörleifur Kristjánsson, “Hjölli” to us, calls out the day’s destinations as he presents the gigantic truck that will chauffeur us around. His demeanour indicated that the “ooohs,” “aaahs,” and “wows” emitted by the group in…
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Less Is More
Following the economic collapse in October 2008, the tourism industry became the fastest growing sector of Iceland’s economy. Today, it is the biggest breadwinner, earning more foreign currency than any other sector. The problem, however, is that the industry is growing too fast…
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The Platinum Circle Tour
The Golden Circle is certainly the most popular tourist attraction in Iceland. When begged by their friends to describe some of the things that set the Icelandic landscape apart from that of other countries, foreigners must immediately think of the golden waters…
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Rainbow Reykjavík Event: The Lovers, The Dreamers And Me
Breaking newsflash: Iceland is a really gay-friendly country! Of course we all know this; we have a big ol’ lez of a PM, our occasional drag queen mayor and a Pride Parade that draws in more families than the state church. Not…
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Caving and the Golden Circle: Cave In, Cave Out…
The Golden Circle tour is a quintessential activity for most visitors to Iceland. You get to see a waterfall, geysers and Þingvellir national park, boasting another waterfall, the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and historical significance as the meeting place of Alþingi, the oldest parliament…
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Going To The Country, Gonna Drink A Lot Of Vodka
For us, the lead up to the Iceland Airwaves festival is a couple of whirlwind weeks of trying to talk to as many performers as we can, especially the international acts setting foot on this rocky clump of land for the first…
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Snowmobiling And The Golden Circle: Bad Weather, Fun Times
By and large I’m adverse to tourist activities. And as someone from a more southern part of the northern hemisphere, I find waking up to complete darkness tough. I thought about this on a dark, dreary winter morning, as I drove down…
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Diving Into Iceland
It’s been already two months since I left my hometown in Austria to work as the programme coordinator at RIFF (Reykjavik International Film Festival), and Iceland already feels very familiar. I jumped into the cold water of alienation and was warmly welcomed…
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Battle of the Golden Circle
One PM and it’s a sea of silver heads on the Gullfoss and Geyser Express Tour as international pensioners claim seats. I’m contemplating the mysteries of old people when Linda, our tour guide, comes on the loudspeaker, introduces herself, and sprinkles us…