Yourflight Toadventure

32 Kjölur F336 25 To Djúpavogur and Seyðisfjörður Djúpavogur To To Akureyri 1 30 7 31 8 3 1 6 24 5 22 27 29 26 4 1 10 11 Useful telephone numbers 9 Road Conditions: 1777 23 2 Weather Information: 902-0600 Emergency Number: 112 To Keflavik Int. Airport 42 28 Special driving & traffic information Speed limits 21 The speed limit in urban areas is normally 50 km per hour. Outside towns, it is 90 13 km, on paved roads and 80 km on gravel roads. 15 17 Warning Domestic animals are often close to, or Check weather and road 14 even on, country roads. Drivers who hit conditions tel. 1777 12 animals may be required to pay for the or at www.road.is damage. 18 16 Travellers intending to explore out-of-the-way areas are encouraged to use the Travellers’ Reporting Service ICE-SAR, tel. 570-5900 20 19 Upplýsingamiðstöð Áhugaverður staður Bílferja Innanlandsflug Sundlaug seljalandsfoss. auglysing.new.pdf 1 29.05.15 09.56 Information Place of interest Ferry Domestic flights Geothermal Pool Glacier Jeeps – Ice & Adventure www.glacierjeeps.is [email protected] Published by South Iceland Marketing Office 2015 SELJALANDSFOSS Tel. (+354) 4781000 Yo ur flight Photos: Páll Jökull Pétursson, Þórir Niels Kjartansson, Ásborg Arnþórsdóttir, Arcanum, S to adventure Þorvarður Árnason, Katla Geopark, Glacierjeeps ehf, Laufey Guðmundsdóttir, Hótel Geysir, Visit Vatnajökull, Sigurdís Lilja Guðjónsdóttir, Sveinbjörn Jónsson, and others. Food & Beverage Adventure tours from road F985 with specially equipped 4WD jeeps to Jöklasel. eagleair.is Design and layout: Páll Jökull Pétursson Wool & Giftshop Skidoos, jeeps and glacier hiking tour on www.hrauneyjar.is Printing: Oddi hf Europe’s largest glacier Vatnajökull NATURE HIGHLIGHTS 7 Geysir 15 Þórsmörk valley 23 Eldgjá Geysir has lent its name to the English language in 51 km from Hvolsvöllur. Road nr. 249 Eruptive fissure ABOUT SOUTH ICELAND order to christen the phenomenon of the periodically Þórsmörk is a beutiful woodland nature In Skaftártunguafréttur, in West-Skaftafellssýsla, 1 Hveragerði Hot Springs spouting hot springs. You can walk around the Geysir reserve surrounded by rugged and majestic close to Kirkjubæjarklaustur, the eruptive The South of Iceland is unique and it is the part of the area, a geothermal field where hot springs are in mountains, glaciers and glacial rivers. fissure Eldgjá is to be found. Eldgjá is an Location: Hveramörk 13, abundance, geysers explode and pools of mud Þórsmörk can only be reached all year approximately. 40 km long eruptive fissure, country visited by far the greatest numbers of foreign 810 Hveragerði bubble. Strokkur gives a performance every few round on 4 x 4 and scheduled buses during approximately 600 metres wide in many travellers. Everything that makes Iceland interesting to Right inside the town of minutes, shooting a tower of water and steam 30 the summer. Two unique hiking paths lead places, and up to 200 metres deep. When Hveragerði there is an area visit can be found in South Iceland all the year round. metres into the air and Blesi with water the colour to Þórsmörk; Laugavegur from Landmannalaugar and Fimmvörðuháls from Skógar. it was formed, probably around 934, there 28 Ingólfshöfði headland of hot springs from which History surrounds you everywhere, both ancient of turquoise delights the senses. were probably eruptions along the whole At the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, Ingólfshöfði is a headland which is isolated by the community derives its 16 Skógafoss waterfall extent of it. Plans to make Eldgjá and its black sands and perilous rivers from the rest of the mainland. However, it is home to and recent. Other highlights are creative art, culture, name (hver = hot spring). The 8 Gullfoss - One of Iceland’s most splendid waterfalls, surrounding area a part of Vatnajökull thousands of nesting seabirds, especially puffins and the great skua. This historical flourishing trade and endless possibilities to enjoy hot springs of Hveragerði are the Golden Falls Skógafoss tumbles 60 metres from the cliffs by National Park are in place. cape is named after the first settler of Iceland, Ingólfur Arnarson, who spent his first outdoor life in all seasons. But above all there is the South Iceland among the most remarkable Gullfoss is actually two separate waterfalls, Skógar. Before cascading off the cliffs as Skóga- winter there with his family after moving to Iceland, 874-875. natural attractions of South the upper one has a drop of 11 metres and foss, the river flows through the Skógárgil 24 Langisjór lake awesome and rugged nature stretching from the Iceland. Visitors to the hot the lower one 21 metres. The rock of the gorge, which boasts more than twenty Langisjór is a lake which is 20 km long and 29 Jökulsárlón mountains and down to the sea. springs can learn about river bed was formed during an interglacial more waterfalls, each with its own charm. 2 km wide in some places. The lake is to Glacial lagoon geothermal energy and the springs, which include Dynkur, spouting regularly, period. For thousands of years the river has the southwest of Vatnajökull, between the The size of the main lagoon, called Jökulsárlón, Ruslahver which has an interesting history, and many more. In all seasons of the year tourists can find something to followed its course delighting tourists with 17 Mýrdalsjökull mountains Tungnárfjöll and Fögrufjöll, in is about 20 square kilometres. In 1932 the beauty and power. glacier a beautiful and picturesque landscape. same area was still covered by ice. Many their liking. In winter the sun is reflected on the pearly 2 Arnarker cave Mýrdalsjökull‘s peak reaches 1493 metres Its square measure is 27 km², it reaches species of fish are found there, as well as Location: Approximately midway between white snow, on long dark winter nights the northern 9 Urriðafoss and Katla Volcano inside the glacier erupts a depth of 75 m and the water surface is seals, which can number into the hundreds Þorlákshöfn and Selvogur there is the cave lights dance around the starlit sky and the moon waterfall on average every 40-60 years. Sixteen 670 m above sea level. The view of mountains at the lake is magnificent, the lake is during winter. Arnarker, on the north side of the road. Urriðafoss is a voluminous waterfall in Þjórsá eruptions have been recorded since the settlement of Iceland over 1100 years ago, among the purest mountain lakes in Iceland. wanders through the clouds. At such times beauty, Arnarker is an interesting cave in the river, where the river falls off the margin the last one in 1918. 30 Haukafell peace and quiet reign, unforgettable to those who Leitarhraun lava field. A marked path 3 25 Free Tourist Map of Þjórsárhraun lava field (360 m /sec) Vatnajökull In 1985 the local Forestry Society started leads from the information sign by the experience it. Trips across the highlands as well as the in beautiful and peaceful surroundings. 18 Sólheimajökull National Park - planting saplings at Haukafell. Not only are road to the cave, and a ladder has been lowlands are an indescribable adventure during both Þjórsárhraun lava field is the greatest lava flow on earth since the Ice Age. The waterfall glacier Europe’s largest the trees now becoming established, but placed at its opening. Take great care when inspecting the cave. is located right off highway Sólheimajökull glacier flows south of The national park includes the ice cap there are bountiful berries to be picked summer and winter. 3 Mýrdalsjökull glacier in a U-shaped valley. and its surroundings, with a total area of every August. This pleasant outdoor spot Þingvellir 2 National Park 10 Hekla It is about 8 km long and 1-2 km wide. The 13,600 km , or 13% of Iceland. Few places also has a good camp site and washing The farmers mind their farms. All the year it is busy in One of the most famous volcanoes in the glacier advanced about 900 metres during in the world exhibit such a wide range of facilities. At Þingvellir the national assembly was world, Hekla is believed to have erupted at the last few centuries, but retreated greatly from 1930 to 1964. natural phenomena. The battle between the country, and in spring the land is covered with its established around 930 and continued least twenty times since the settlement of ice and fire still rages within the park 31 Heinaberg summer foliage. Life outdoors and trips assume a new to convene there until 1798. Many crucial Iceland, and five times in the 20th century. boundaries. Much of Southeast Iceland The Heinaberg area is part of the national events in Icelandic history took place at form: hiking tours, riding trips, angling in rivers and The last eruption was in February 2000. lies within the realm of the park, giving quick access to the glacier. Vatnajökull - the park, and offers interesting sets of basalt Þingvellir and it is at the heart of Icelandic world’s biggest glacier outside of the arctic regions. The glacier seems so close to the columns in addition to the glacier tongue lakes. Nature takes on a new look: hot springs, lava fields, nationhood. No less remarkable is the 11 Landmannalaugar people of Southeast Iceland that they sometimes refer to the ice as if it were part of Heinabergsjökull and the lagoon. The valley volcanoes, waterfalls, the highlands, glaciers, rivers and geology of Þingvellir. Visitors can get an volcano region their backyard. Each of the icefalls and glacier tongues flowing towards the lowlands Heinabergsdalur, 7 km long, reaches to interpretation of the history and nature lakes. All life is reborn after the frosts of winter and the Landmannalaugar is a region near the possesses an individual character and offers a variety of scenes.

Load more