Duration: 30 minutes (or longer). Difficulty: easy walk along terminal moraines overlooking the lagoon. Interest: glacier tongue, a less-visited iceberg lagoon. Start/End: Fjallsarlon is signposted on...

Duration: 1.5 hours. Difficulty: a steady ascent and descent of around 200m. The path is stony. Interest: great views of the chain of craters which formed in 1783 during Iceland’s most powerful erupti...

Duration: 3 hours. Difficulty: easy, around 200m of ascent and descent. Interest: waterfalls, views of the glacier. Start/End: the trail starts left of the toilets at the Visitor Centre at Skaftafell....

Duration: 2 hours. Difficulty: an easy hike through lava to one of the most beautiful of Laki’s craters which has a lake. Interest: craters and lava – lots of it! Start/End: the walk starts from the s...

This tephra crater was formed about 2,800 years ago and at 140m deep and 1km in diameter, it is among the largest explosive craters of its kind. There are two walking trails leading to the top of the...

An easy walk to Stapavik Cove.  Duration: 1.5 hours each way; distance: 4.5 km each way; start/end of the walk: the car park just east of the farm Unaós, on road 94, around 40 minutes drive north of E...

The Myvatn area offers many options for long and short walks. Pick up a map and get advice on the routes from the staff at the Visitor Centre in Reykjahlid.