Not technically a tour, but something that was essential when spending more than a long weekend there was, hire a car. Sarah and I hired one Opal Astra to travel to the south east part of Iceland. We were lucky to get a smaller car at short notice, thanks to the free Internet at the International Youth Hostel and their staff, we were able to search and book our ongoing trip from the city.
There is one main road round Iceland, route one. Generally, when we turned off the main road, the road turns into gravel tracks where we had to slow right down. Off these gravel tracks and into the interior, the roads are known as F roads, which even in summer, you'd need to have a 4x4 vehicle to even attempt to go down it. Most, if not all rental car companies don't cover you if you go down an F road in a normal drive car.
The waterfalls we went to see were all on gravel roads and easily to reach from route 1, all different, all pretty impressive. The scenery went from old lava fields, grassland, large cliff faces and a distant glacier. Though the grassland there were numerous little herds of Icelandic ponies, mostly mothers with new foals.
We stayed in Vik, a place with three hundred residents in the south, a compact little village that made a good place to stay a couple of nights at Hotel Lundi.
Summer is Iceland is the place of eternal sunshine, the sun starts to set around midnight, then by 3 a.m. the sun is back up. Makes it really hard to slept in later than about 7 a.m. I would have liked an eye sleeping mask.
More photos from road tripping in Iceland.
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