Visiting Iceland was a dream of mine for many years but I always thought it is to expensive. I’m not a fan of organized bus tours and therefore I hoped for someone to join me to share cost for rooms and transportation. Since one of the cheapest options for me to fly to the east coast of Canada was via Reykjavik, I decided to extend the stayover and asked around. Luckily my aunt always wanted to go as well we just never talked about it. This is why we decided to rent a car for a week and explore the south of Iceland. Driving around whole Iceland would have been to much of a hustle so we decided to choose three locations to stay at and do daytrips from them staying in the south. The first one was in Hella, let’s say after the first third of the south. The second one in Hof at round about two thirds right beside the biggest glacier of Iceland. The last one was in Grindavik south from Reykjavik and I had one last night in Reykjavik after my aunt flew back to Germany (the last few steps in the previous blog). It was really nice to have a family member around after leaving Germany for a longer period of time. I’m still not realizing how big the step I made is and she made the start a lot easier. We got along really well and had similar expectations and I would always do it again 😊

I decided to not make this blog chronological because we saved up some spots for the way back because we had to drive most of the way double. We basically did a loop in the area around Reykjavík (which I pubilished in a second block) and then drove by the south coast forth and back. This is why I will start documenting in the west of the south coast till the further east of south coast of Iceland. I’ll warn you, since I really fell in love with this unique island this will be one of the longest blogs so far. Sorting out all the pictures I took was a struggle but here you go.

Thingvellir National Park

Geysir

They actually blow up evers 5 to 10 minutes with variating hights.

Gullfoss Waterfall

The biggest waterfall I have ever seen!

Yes we got wet ;)

Seljalandsfoss Waterfall

Smaller than Gullfoss, but it appears higher...

... and you can actually walk behind it ...

... just wear a rain jacket ;)

Drangurinn í Drangshlíð

A few cute and very old houses are build into this rock.

As you see you can also climb on the rock ;)

Skógafoss Waterfall

I do not agree that Iceland is to full with tourists, sure some of the most famous spots like this one get crowded, but as soon as you go a bit further apart from the road you quickly see less tourists. Also, be honest, I have seen way more tourist than in Iceland...

Rainbow over Skógafoss Waterfall.

Just behind Skógafoss Waterfall. We just wanted to see around the next corner and ended up hiking for around three hours while passing by diverse waterfalls one different to each other and really enjoyed the sunny day.