What if a waterfall did not just fall…but vanished into the earth? This is Gullfoss. Iceland’s golden waterfall. Louder, wider, and wilder than it looks on screen. Here, the Hvítá River crashes in two ...

Iceland’s famed Golden Circle tourist route delivers dramatic scenery, but its quieter regions offer deeper cultural connections and fewer crowds. There’s a reason Iceland’s Golden Circle is so famous ...

With this whirlwind itinerary, travelers can make the most of short stopovers in the Land of Fire and Ice.

“We were left alone in the middle of the ocean for 1,000 years, and nobody paid notice to us.” So said artist Hallgrimur Helgason in a short video about Icelandic creativity that I watched on the ...

With terrain shaped by volcanic eruptions and shifting tectonic plates, and surrounding waters filled with glaciers, icebergs ...

The Gullfoss is Iceland's most famous waterfall. A farmer's daughter can be thanked for the fact that this natural beauty still exists today. Some 1,200 cubic meters per second of water plunge into ...

A little over a century ago, a young woman named Sigridur Tomasdottir threatened to throw herself into the icy gorge of Iceland’s iconic Gullfoss waterfall in a bid to stop English businessmen from ...