Ring Road Itinerary

Stokknes Beach

Stokknes Beach

 

Day 1

  • Go get pastries in Reykjavik 

  • Zoo

  • Eat lunch at Botanical garden cafe

  • Go to the grocery store and stock up in essentials

  • Get hot dogs for dinner

  • Sleep in Reykjavik 


Day 2

  • Get pastries/treats for the road 

  • Drive north

  • Settlement Center, or hike around Grabrok crater, or go to the goat farm

  • Eat picnic lunch

  • Keep driving north

  • Sleep near entrance to Westfjords


Day 3

  • Drive to Glaumbaer and have lunch there

  • Stop in Hofsos and swim at the infinity pool

  • Drive to Akuereyri

  • Eat dinner and sleep in Akuereyri


Day 4

  • Stock up on food at a grocery store 

  • Godafoss

  • Mytvan (pronounced mee-vaht) - Dimmuborgir lava field. Color-coded walking trails. 

  • Picnic lunch

  • Psuedocraters. 

  • Sleep near Mytvan


Day 5 

  • Breakfast 

  • Mytvan Nature baths in the morning and eat lunch there

  • Explore Namafjall/Hverir

  • Drive east to Seydisfjordur Walk around and eat dinner there

  • Sleep in Seydisfjordur 


Day 6

  • Walk around the town

  • See that museum/hike to a waterfall

  • Eat dinner at sushi place

  • Sleep in Seydisfjordur 


Day 7

  • Drive down south

  • Stop in Djúpivogur for lunch. Swim if needed

  • Stokksnes beach

  • Eat dinner in Hofn (pronounced “hup” while inhaling) 

  • Stop at a grocery store for breakfast, lunch,  snacks

  • Sleep near the glacier lagoon


Day 8

  • Eat breakfast at the cabin

  • Diamond beach

  • Jokulsarlon glacier lagoon - take an amphibian tour 

  • Eat lunch at Fjallsarlon Frost Restaurant and look at the other glacier lagoon

  • Eat dinner at Jon Riki

  • Sleep near the glacier lagoon

Day 9

  • Eat breakfast at the cabin

  • Stop at waterfalls along the way

  • Fjaðrárgljúfur canyon

  • Picnic lunch

  • Reynisfjara Beach

  • Eat dinner in Vik

  • Sleep in Vik


Day 10

  • Stop at a grocery store for lunch foods

  • Skógafoss

  • Swim at secret Lagoon Hot Spring

  • Eat at Friðheimar Greenhouse restaurant 

  • See the geysers and Thingvellir

  • Sleep in Reykjavik


Day 11

  • See the sun voyager statue and walk along the harbor. Do some shopping

  • Eat lunch

  • Geothermal beach

  • Dinner in Reykjavik

  • Sleep in Reykjavik


Day 12

  • Whales of Iceland

  • Do anything else around Reykjavik you haven’t had a chance to do. 

  • Fly home