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Day 4: SELFOSS - LANDMANNALAUGAR - SELFOSS

Today we are leaving Landmannalaugar tour in Iceland from Sellfoss, so at 6 in the morning we are already on the floor to shower and have breakfast in our hotel in Selfoss, Julia's Guesthouse, with a mist that does not seem to presage good weather this morning.
Although we, counting that we go quite far, to Landmannalaugar, we hope that the weather changes a bit as the morning passes.

We leave at 8.15 in the morning from the Selfoss N1 gas station, where we leave our rental car in Iceland, although we have to be at 7.45, which is the time we have been "summoned", to make sure we arrive.

Gas station N1 in Selfoss

We will do this Landmannalaugar excursion with Reykjavik Excursions, a bus (with wifi included) that will take us to Landmannaugar from Selfoss in about 3 hours making some stops that we will tell you.
If you are staying in Reykjavik, a good option is to book this one-day Landmannalaugar tour with pick-up and drop-off to the hotel.
We left at 8.15 on time with a couple more towards the Highlands of Iceland in a bus for ourselves.
Once in Landmannalaugar, the return to Selfoss will also be done with this Reykjavik Excursions bus, with which we have departures at 14.30 and 15.30 and we can choose the one we want.
After searching in many forums and asking for opinions, most people recommended us to hire a 4 × 4 tour, which is logically much more expensive than this option, which costs about 70 euros round trip against the 200 that You can get to pay for a 4 × 4. At the end of this Landmannalaugar tour We will tell you how everything has gone and if we recommend it.

Reykjavik Excursions bus

Before we start to get into the Iceland Highlands, we make 3 intermediate stops to pick up more passengers and stop at the sink and as we go into the Highlands the landscape is changing and becoming more arid at times.

After an hour or so, we reach a F road, where cars cannot pass, although it is true that some of us see and have the first perspectives of the Hekla volcano.

In front of the Hekla volcano

Incredible landscape that surrounds this volcano and we are lucky to see as we enter Landmannalaugar.

Landmannalaugar Road

Entering the Highlands of Iceland

We make a couple of stops with the bus to be able to take photos and as we move away we cannot look away from the windows, it is impressive. If yesterday we were impressed in the Golden Circle, today we are already hallucinating with these landscapes that seem taken from any movie.
If you have a full day, since the Landmannalaugar tour takes about 12 hours, do not hesitate a minute to do it.

Road to Landmannalaugar

As we move forward, the landscapes become more spectacular and we are more convinced that one day we will return to tour this area with more tranquility.
We arrived at 11.30 in the morning and the first thing we do is go to the information center to take a map of the area and inform us of what we can do in the 4 hours we have until the bus we want to take back to Selfoss leaves. from Landmannalaugar, which is at 15.30 in the afternoon.

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We bought a trail map for 300 ISK and we chose to make one of the best known and at the same time easier, which is the lava wash path in Landmannalaugar, in which they spend about two hours or so.

Campground in Landmannalaugar

Starting the lava wash path in Landmannalaugar

As soon as we begin to enter the lava wash path, we look at each other and realize that we are entering one of the most beautiful landscapes we have ever been.

Views of the camping area as we move away

Landmannalaugar

In Landmannalaugar The silence speaks.
The Landmannalaugar tour is one of Iceland's star destinations and really, now that we are here we understand why. Multicolored mountains, hot springs, lava flows, blue water lakes ... Without doubt a paradise for any hiker.

Color palette in Landmannalaugar

At 600 meters above sea level, Landmannalaugar has the largest geothermal field in Iceland after the Grímsvötn caldera, in Vatnajökull.
The unique colors of its peaks are due to the presence of rhyolite, lava rich in minerals cooled very slowly.

Among multicolored landscapes on the Landmannalaugar excursion

As we move through lava flows, we follow the fully signposted path, stopping every few minutes to take pictures and above all, to admire this wonder of nature that we have within our reach.

Color palette in Landmannalaugar

Amazing game of colors in the Highlands of Iceland

When it is almost 2 in the afternoon, we decide that it is time to eat and we do it in a privileged place, in front of a waterfall, improvising a picnic with bread and sausage that we bought yesterday in Bonus.

Picnic in Landmannalaugar

Eating a dessert skyr in spectacular surroundings

Amazing this 5-star restaurant where we feel the luckiest people in the world.

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Since we arrived we had already decided that we would take the bus at 3.30 in the afternoon, so we still have some time to continue enjoying this spectacle of nature and we take the desktop taking a walk around this area that has left more than impressed.

Trails that can be traveled in Landmannalaugar

Around 2.20 in the afternoon we start the way back without being able to stop looking back every few steps we are taking.

Amazing Landmannalaugar

Cotton in a spectacular landscape

We arrive again at the camping area at 3 in the afternoon and we go directly to a bus that acts as a bar where we ask for a coffee and a beer for 800 ISK that we tasted before taking the Reykjavik Excursions bus That will take us back to Selfoss in a few minutes.

Having coffee in Landmannalaugar

The trip back to Selfoss from Landmannalaugar we do it again between landscapes of infarction and the occasional head that recharges the lost energy on this day of hiking in one of the most beautiful enclaves that we can see on this trip to Iceland.
We arrived at Selfoss at 7 pm and stayed at a KFC that is right in front of the gas station where we ordered a full menu for two, plus coke for 2688 ISK.
The sky is increasingly gray and seems to threaten to unload at any time, so after this quick dinner we go to our guesthouse to warm up and rest from a day that has been incredible.