How to unlock Iceland’s magical landscape - Amid dramatic volcanoes, steaming lava fields and glacial lagoons, a new self-drive route invites travellers to embrace Iceland’s wild unpredictability – ...

Mr. Magnason is an Icelandic writer and filmmaker; he wrote from Reykjavik. Ms. Hallgrímsdóttir is an Icelandic photographer.

If you know anything anecdotal about Iceland, it’s that the island boasts expansive ocean and mountain views, waterfalls, ...

While a beach holiday is the dream for many, there has been a surge in holidaymakers looking for destinations with cooler ...

Travelers can visit the same landscapes that NASA astronauts trained on before their inaugural spacewalk. Courtesy Hörður Sveinsson/Visit Iceland Iceland is full of diverse geography that many ...

With the landscape, the things you can’t reproduce are what are interesting to me. You’re dealing with these forces and energies and then try and make a painting that’s an equivalent of that. That’s ...

Iceland’s majestic landscape has long been the subject of poems and other literary works. And experiencing its landscape in person often inspires speechless awe. The newly released book ...

I had heard about Iceland’s volcanic history before traveling there this summer for two weeks in early August. Most of all, I recalled the 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajokull, which for a while ...

Tourists at Iceland's Blue Lagoon geothermal spa were forced to pack up and get out as a volcanic eruption left lava oozing ...

Charlotta María Hauksdóttir moved to California from her native Iceland in 2003, and has spent most of the intervening years trying to recapture the landscapes of her childhood. “After I moved ...

In reality, it’s northern Iceland, one of the locations where the fantasy TV show was filmed. A five-day tour from EuropeToo takes you into “Thrones” country, known for its bloody dynasty ...

Bill Whitaker was there as lava flowed from a volcano in Iceland in 2021, covering the landscape in molten rock. He returned to see what scientists have learned from the eruption.