Golden Circle and Kerid: Strokkur Every 7 Minutes, a Crater 55 m Deep

The standard Golden Circle, with the Kerið crater added to it. One thing worth knowing before you go: the Geysir that gave every geyser in the world its name stopped erupting. What you watch is Strokkur, next to it, which throws water into the air every 7 to 10 minutes and does not keep anybody waiting. Gullfoss drops the Hvítá, the white river, in two steps, 11 metres and then 21, with more than 100 cubic metres of water going through every second. The noise is the part nobody describes. Þingvellir is where the Icelandic parliament was founded in the late 900s, and it is also where the Eurasian and North American plates pull apart visibly enough to walk between them. Kerið is a volcanic crater 55 metres deep, with a lake at the bottom of it. The lunch stop is at Geysir, about 40 minutes, and food can be bought there. Pick-up and drop-off are both in Reykjavík.