Iceland Travel Guide: Locations & Tours

Glacier Ice

These travel guides include interesting locations near the big Icelandic glaciers. At many of these glacier locations, you can see, photograph and sometimes touch and taste glacier ice.

  • Jökulsárlón & Diamond Beach

    Jökulsárlón & Diamond Beach

    Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon is a large iceberg lake that connects with the North Atlantic and volcanic, black sand beaches. These beaches often get littered with glacier ice crystals and are known as the Diamond Beach.

  • Vatnjökull Glacier – East Iceland

    Vatnjökull Glacier – East Iceland

    Roughly translated, Vatnjökull is the “Lake Glacier” and it is not only the biggest glacier in Iceland, but it is Europe’s largest piece of ice that is more than 300 square miles.

  • Fjallsárlón Glacier Lagoon – known for calving icebergs

    Fjallsárlón Glacier Lagoon – known for calving icebergs

    Fjallsárlón Glacier Lagoon is a must-see when visiting East Iceland. With its tranquil atmosphere, stunning landscape, and stunning calving icebergs.

  • Ice Caves – Iceland Glaciers

    Ice Caves – Iceland Glaciers

    The ice caves under the Vatnjökull glacier are the real deal. These are caves sculpted by melt water during the Summer months. The walls and ceiling are carved by glacier rivers.