West Iceland Holidays

West Iceland is a microcosm of the country; head north from Reykjavík and you’ll soon encounter mystical mountains, immense glaciers, bubbling hot springs, colourful fishing villages and Viking legends, not to mention wildlife in abundance with noisy seal colonies, steep puffin cliffs and whale watching viewpoints all within tantalising reach. Could you afford to miss this area on an Iceland adventure?

The enchanting Snæfellsnes National Park is the highlight of the West, with the imposing Snæfellsjökull at its centre.

Made famous by novelist Jules Verne in Journey to the Centre of the Earth, this 700,000-year-old stratovolcano with a glacier covering its summit dominates the landscape and provides the perfect opportunity to explore, with easy hiking trails crisscrossing the lava fields.

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