Golden Circle to Langjökull: Private Golden Circle Tour with Langjökull Snowmobiling

A low, northlight morning lifts off the rooftops of Reykjavík as the private minivan eases onto Route 1 and into the open interior. In an hour the city’s neat rows give way to wide fields of lava and moss; by midmorning you’re standing where two tectonic plates meet at Þingvellir, the rock walls folding like a book spine as wind runs through the Almannagjá gorge. The day reads like a primer on Iceland’s fire-and-ice story: a volcanic crater with blue water, a field of restless hot springs, a plunging waterfall, and then the sudden white of a glacier you can ride across.