Látrabjarg bird cliffs
Europe’s westernmost point and a 14-km wall of puffins, razorbills and guillemots — the birds are tame and the views are endless.
The Westfjords
Iceland’s wild, road-less-visited edge
Best time
June – August
Gentle pace
4–6 slow days
Ideal for
Adventurous families · Nature lovers · Bird watchers
The Westfjords are the Iceland that the brochures forget — a great claw of fjords and table-top mountains jutting into the North Atlantic, with a single road looping its edge and almost no one on it. Cliffs teem with puffins, waterfalls plunge straight into the sea, and the light over the fjords at midnight is a thing of its own.
With children who love the wild, this is the reward for a long drive: empty hot pots, seal colonies, a red-sand beach reached by a cliff-hugging road, and the sense of having reached somewhere genuinely remote.
Worth lingering over
Dynjandi waterfall
A broad trapezoid of falls fanning down the cliff, with a gentle pool at its base — the Westfjords’ signature sight.
The Hellisandur hot pot
A free oceanside pool beside the road — soak in warm water with the fjord and the midnight sun for a view.
Hidden gem
Rauðasandur, the red sand beach
Down a steep, cliff-hugging gravel road at the fjord’s edge lies a vast honey-red sand beach, the colour shifting from gold to rust with the light, with seals hauled out on the rocks and not another soul for miles. Pack lunch, take the descent slowly, and spend an afternoon walking a shoreline that feels like the end of the earth.