By day enjoy Southern Iceland’s unique cocktail of sights: the falling water curtains that are Skógafoss and Seljalandsfoss waterfalls, the glacial snowmobiling rink that is Mýrdalsjökull glacier, the foam pounding white on Dyrhólæy’s black sand beaches and the Golden Circle's famed attractions of Gullfoss, Geysir and Pingviller.
By night enjoy food to die for in the hotel Ranga's renowned dining room and afterwards soak in a hot tub outside your bedroom whilst waiting for the Northern Lights to appear [hopefully] in the night sky above you.
WHAT TO SEE
SKÓGAFOSS AND SELJALANDSFOSS - Two of Iceland's plunge falls: Seljalandfoss spills straight off the cliffs of the former coastline side dropping straight down into a shallow pool at your feet whilst Skogafoss produces so much spray it's invariably arched with a rainbow.
THE GOLDEN CIRCLE - An unmissable trio of sights that are a ‘must do’ for every Iceland visitor. The double fall at Gulfoss makes it unique; the eponymous Geysir area gave the world the name. Last but not least Þingvellir, where the early Vikings gave up rape and pillage in favour of parliamentary democracy.
DYRHÓLÆY - Is the southernmost tip of Iceland, signatured by a rock arch that the sea has eroded from the headland from whence the name comes. Puffins and eider ducks are prolific here in summer but the cliffs are multicultural with fulmars, guillemots and kittiwakes all vying for space with each other.
JOKULSARLON LAGOON - Set back just slightly from the main road, the Lagoon's luminous blue iceburgs, some tinted with black volcanic dust, float in the Lagoon for several years gradually self sculpting themselves in to different shapes before finally working there way out to sea. Converted DUKWS (ducks) carry you between the bergs, some an opaque white and others a translucent blue, but all slowly shrinking to a size small enough to slip out to sea.
