Iceland Golden Circle Highlights: Top Things to Do
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2024
- Come with us as we explore Iceland's amazing Golden Circle, filled with waterfalls, geysers, a giant crater, and tectonic plates? All within about 90 minutes of each other?! This is one incredible adventure that you have to experience for yourself.
In this video, we start at Gullfoss. If you're doing the entire Golden Circle in one day (which is totally possible - a roundtrip circle trip from Reykjavik is about 3.5 hours of driving, plus you’ll want about 5 hours of total visiting time at the sites), you'll likely start in Reykjavik and then head east, with your first stop at Kerid Crater. We cover Kerid Crater at the end of this video because although it is still a highlight of the Golden Circle, in our minds it’s the least impressive part. If you want to map out your route, here are your stops: Start in Reykjavik ➡️ Kerid Crater ➡️ Gullfoss ➡️ Geysir & Strokkur ➡️ Bruarfoss ➡️ Thingvellir National Park ➡️ Back to Reykjavik.
This video focuses on those five major stops along of the Golden Circle: Gullfoss, Geysir & Strokkur geothermal area, Bruarfoss, Thingvellir National Park, and Kerid Crater. These are by far the highlights on the entire Golden Circle route. There are some other minor stops and there are lots of beautiful landscapes along the way (although not as beautiful as the south coast, if you have more time definitely check that out: • Iceland South Coast Hi... ), but these 5 stops are definitely the top things to do along the Golden Circle route.
As you'll see in the video, we hadn't planned on visiting Thingvellir on this day, so we hadn't planned out our route and ended up wandering around and walking a lot farther than necessary. I mention a blog post for a Thingvellir National Park guide that shows you exactly where to go and how to get around to see everything in minimal time. Here's a link to that post: perfectlittleplanet.com/thing...
If you still have questions after watching the video, ask us in the comments! We respond to everything.
Timestamps for all the places we visited in this video:
0:00 Gullfoss
2:20 Geysir and Strokkur
6:57 Bruarfoss
8:30 Thingvellir National Park
13:38 Isa’s worst nightmare
14:45 Kerid Crater
Thanks for watching!
-Brian
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Thanks so much for watching, liking, and commenting! We really appreciate you spending your time with us! We hope you have a great day and experience something new today!
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Thank you for responding. We are going in the beginning of September and plan to do the South Coast. I have watched so many of these videos and yours was by far the best!! 😊
Did you watch our South Coast video also? Or just this Golden Circle one? czcams.com/video/1fk04WT9hMA/video.htmlsi=mDpLUJOyT9rTCe2x The South Coast of Iceland is INCREDIBLE and I'm so excited for you to go experience it in person.
Hi you guys! This is BEAUTIFUL!!!
Thank you!!
Great video! Going to Iceland next September. What month were you guys there?
We were there at the beginning of May and got very lucky with the weather. Hopefully you'll have good luck in September!
Great videos could you share where you stayed and what hotels you used etc. I am planning on going with the family in a couple of years
Sure. We stayed at an AirBnb outside Reykjavik, then stayed by Vik in the Black Beach Suites (loved this place!). Then we stayed at another Airbnb in Flúðir, so we can be somewhat closer to the Golden Circle highlights.
@@PerfectLittlePlanet thank you 🙏