Golden Circle Small-Group Tour: Þingvellir, Geysir & Gullfoss Highlights

You step out of Reykjavik’s compact streets and the air changes—clean, cold, a little metallic where steam steams off distant pools. The minivan threads along a road that opens into low volcanic plains; lava fields roll like grey sea and distant mountains cut the horizon. By the time the guide points toward Þingvellir, you’re close enough to smell the wet earth and hear the park—rivers bright with glacial melt, a gull calling, the subtle creak of tectonic plates at work.