Golden Circle with a Tomato Farm and a Dairy: Kerid's Intact Caldera

A full day on the Golden Circle with two farms built into it, which is what separates this from the version that only stops at the three big sites. Þingvellir comes first: a UNESCO World Heritage Site, where the Icelandic parliament was established in 930 AD, and where the American and Eurasian plates meet. Öxarárfoss is there too, not among the largest waterfalls in the country but among the best loved, for where it sits and for the history attached to it. Efstidalur is a working dairy farm, and the ice cream is made there, organic, with the Icelandic cows in view. At Geysir, Strokkur erupts every five minutes. Gullfoss follows. Friðheimar grows tomatoes under glass, and lunch there is not included in the price. What is included is the explanation of how greenhouse horticulture works in a country with this climate, and the horses: Friðheimar breeds Icelandic horses, and a couple of them can be met and patted. Kerið closes the day. It is one of several crater lakes in the Western Volcanic Zone, which runs from the Reykjanes peninsula to the Langjökull glacier and formed as the land moved across a hotspot. Kerið is the one whose caldera has stayed most clearly intact.