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Iceland

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Before you go

Lectura obligada antes de ir

Línea rojaConducción

Iceland: headlights on all year when driving

  • Keep dipped headlights on all year, fit suitable tyres in winter and keep to the speed limit
  • Drink-driving (Iceland's limit is stricter than the UK's)

Breaking traffic rules brings heavy fines.

Verificado el 19 oct 2026Fuente: GOV.UK: Iceland travel advice

Línea rojaSeguridad

Iceland: keep away from waves, cliff edges and hot-spring vents

  • Stay behind warning lines and tell your hotel your plans or register them with Safe Travel Iceland
  • Going near waves, cliff edges and geothermal vents

These are the most common causes of accidents in Iceland.

Verificado el 19 oct 2026Fuente: GOV.UK: Iceland travel advice

Places & local life

Lugares emblemáticos, rincones ocultos y vida local

Fermented shark

GastronomíaReykjavík, Iceland

Icelandic fermented shark

Poisonous Greenland shark, fermented and air-dried, has become Iceland's most hard-core national dish.

Dyrhólaey seen from the black sand beach

ClásicoSouth Iceland (near Vík)

Black Sand Beach (Reynisfjara)

A black beach with basalt cliffs and the 'petrified troll' sea stacks.

Wild harbour seals in the glacier lagoon

ClásicoSoutheast Iceland

Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon

A lagoon of floating ice calved from Vatnajökull, with 'diamond ice' on the black beach

Almannagjá gorge, Þingvellir National Park

ClásicoSouthwest Iceland (Golden Circle)

Þingvellir National Park

The site where Icelanders founded their parliament, the Althing, in 930 — one of the oldest surviving parliaments in the world.

Hallgrímskirkja, the city landmark inspired by basalt columns

ClásicoReykjavík, Iceland

Reykjavík

The Arctic capital of the Vikings' descendants, where a basalt-inspired church and elf legends coexist.