Gullfoss

Gullfoss consists of two stages of waterfalls. "... we reach the Gullfoss ('golden fall'), one of the largest and finest waterfalls in Iceland. The copious Hvítá, issuing from the Hvítárvatn on the N., dashes, above the fall, over wild fissured rock-terraces about 66 ft. high, and then plunges through a narrow defile, flanked with basaltic rocks, into a chasm 98 ft. deep".--Baedeker 1912. DSC_1132

Iceland's Golden Circle

May 30th 2022
The "Golden Circle" is the popular name for a tour of Iceland's most popular tourist destinations: Gullfoss waterfall, Geysir hot springs and Thingvellir National Park. (Baedeker in 1910 didn't call them that, but did list them as the top places to visit in Iceland!) They can all be visited in a day tour out of Reykjavik. Our Globus circle tour of Iceland began with these destinations. Driving ... read more

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Settled by Norwegian and Celtic (Scottish and Irish) immigrants during the late 9th and 10th centuries A.D., Iceland boasts the world's oldest functioning legislative assembly, the Althing, established in 930. Independent for over 300 years, Iceland ... ... read more

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