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The road, as it looks from the car.

Every picture here was taken by Snorri on his own trips. No stock photos, no drone. This is what the days look like — tap one to see it larger.

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01 · South Coast

The South Coast

Waterfalls, black sand and the sea stacks off Vík. The long day, and the one people talk about afterwards.

Skógafoss waterfall in winter with a rainbow across the spray and ice at its foot
Skógafoss in winter, with the rainbow it makes whenever the sun is out.
Low sun over a wide black-sand beach, the sky orange under a band of cloud
Sunset over the black sand on the South Coast.
Seljalandsfoss in winter, with thick ice and snow built up around the plunge pool
Seljalandsfoss in winter, the ice building at the foot of the fall.
The Reynisdrangar sea stacks black against an orange sunset over the sea
Reynisdrangar, the sea stacks off Vík, at sunset.
The red-roofed church at Vík on a snowy slope, cliffs behind it
The church at Vík in snow. The last stop before the road turns east.
Silhouettes of people on a black beach at sunset, the Dyrhólaey rock arch behind them and a car to the right
Dyrhólaey at sunset, the arch black against the sky, and the car waiting.

02 · Jökulsárlón

Jökulsárlón and the glacier

377 km out, and worth every one of them. A very long day trip, and better as an overnight.

Blue icebergs floating in Jökulsárlón with the glacier and snowy mountains behind
Jökulsárlón, the glacier lagoon, with the ice coming down off Vatnajökull behind it.
A large striped blue iceberg close to the black shore of the lagoon
An iceberg the size of a house, a few metres from the shore.
A glacier tongue spilling down between dark mountains onto a flat gravel plain
A glacier tongue reaching down to the gravel, on the way east.
Broken ice filling the lagoon under a snow-streaked mountain and blue sky
Ice in the lagoon under the mountain, on a clear winter day.

03 · Golden Circle

The Golden Circle in January

One winter day, start to finish. The sun comes up at eleven and never gets high, and the light does the rest.

Pink and orange sunrise over the frozen shore of Þingvallavatn
Sunrise over Þingvallavatn, about eleven in the morning.
Pink dawn light on a snow-covered ridge above a snowy plain
First light on the ridge, on the road out from town.
A tall white steam plume rising from the Nesjavellir geothermal plant at dawn, pink mountains behind
Steam rising at Nesjavellir at dawn, on the way to Þingvellir.
Low winter sun over Þingvallavatn seen from a viewpoint with a few people at the railing
A viewpoint over Þingvallavatn. Blue sky, low sun, nobody in a hurry.
The winter sun low over a frozen lake, a bench in the snow in the foreground
The sun over the lake, as high as it gets in January.
A geothermal steam plume against a snowy mountain lit by low sun
The same steam later in the morning, with the sun on the mountain behind it.

04 · Puffins

Puffins

Taken at Hafnarhólmi in the east, in summer. The puffins are on the Icelandic coast from about May to August, and gone the rest of the year.

Three Atlantic puffins standing together on a grassy cliff edge
Three puffins on the cliff edge at Hafnarhólmi.
A puffin among yellow buttercups with a row of small fish in its beak
A puffin in the buttercups, a beak full of sand eels.
Two puffins facing each other on bare earth at the mouth of a burrow
A pair at the burrow, in June.
A puffin standing in long grass, looking at the camera
Close enough to see the eye markings. They are not shy here.

05 · Reykjavík

Reykjavík, the nights, and the car

Where the day starts and ends.

The Sun Voyager steel sculpture on the Reykjavík waterfront at dusk, city lights across the bay
Sólfar, the Sun Voyager, on the Reykjavík waterfront at dusk.
A green aurora band over a white church with a tower, lit by streetlights
Northern lights over a church, an hour out of town.
The Sun Voyager sculpture from the east, with lit tower blocks behind it
The same evening from the other side, the city lights coming on.
Green and pink northern lights over a dark mountain ridge under a starry sky
Northern lights over the ridge, on one of the nights it comes.
A full moon in a deep blue sky over a bay, town lights strung along the far shore and reflected in the water
Full moon over the bay at blue hour, on the way home.
A white Tesla Model Y with a taxi roof sign in a garage
The car: a white Tesla Model Y, taxi sign on the roof.

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