Many travel agencies and bus companies offer daily tours to the Golden Waterfalls and the Geysir Area. Restaurants near Gullfoss Waterfall: (0.22 mi) Gullfoss Kaffi (0.21 mi) Gullfosskaffi (3.49 mi) Skjol (5.56 mi) Supa Geysir (5. A very nice hotel and restaurant are in the Geysir Area and an outdoor swimming pool. Gullfoss Waterfall sits in The Golden Circle, a route that is brimming with spectacular natural sights that even give Gullfoss a run for its money. With its popularity, the trail is featured in many guided packages, including this immersive 6-Day Winter Package, and self-drive tours, such as this 10.

A Norwegian started the planting and left a considerable fund for the Icelanders to continue his admirable pioneering work. The Golden Circle is a 190-mile (300 kilometers) route of Iceland's three most popular natural attractions: Thingvellir National Park, the Geysir geothermal area and Gullfoss waterfall. Just east of the Geysir Area is one of the many centres of the Forestry Service and its forest, which has been expanding for decades. The old Geysir has been in retirement for decades, but when it was active its eruptions reached the height of at least 80 m.Īll around the old Geysir are more spouting hot springs, such as the ever lively Strokkur (the butter Churn), which erupts every 3-5 minutes.

Its fame spread and other spouting hot springs elsewhere were consequently named Geysir or geyser. Whether you travel clockwise or anti-clockwise, it takes less than two hours to get to Gullfoss from Reykjavik (approximately 120 kilometers). The meeting point is at Gullfoss upper parking lot, outside the area where the shops and restaurant is located. At this point, the road turns into an unsealed F35, which is only for 4WD cars. The spouting hot spring Geysir was claimed to be the biggest one in the world. Gullfoss sort of marks the end of the road for most travelers, as it is technically as far as you get with 2WD. If you feel snacky or thirsty, Gullfoss cafe is the right place to sit down while.

One of the many stories connected with the falls tells about the fight early in the 20th century for their existence, when a foreign enterprise managed to contracted the rights to harness them for electrical production. 10 Discount at Gullfoss Caf and Glima Restaurant (Geysir Hot Spring). The Golden Waterfalls in the glacial river Hvita count among the world´s most beautiful waterfalls. Region: South Iceland Coordinates: 64.3270716° N 20.1199478° W Gullfoss waterfalls and Geysir area

Gullfoss restaurant