Unbelievable landscape, beautiful colours and crater/steam formations. My gosh it really was very stinky though and I smelt that rotten egg smell for hours afterwards!

You feel you are on another planet when you hit this landscape! Right off the Ring Road, there is ample parking spaces but no facilities. The dangerous areas are roped off, so it is safe. Reminded us much of Yellowstone National Park in the U.S....More

ALlo called Hverir, this spot is just down the road on the east side of Lake Myvatn. You will smell the bubbling black mud pots as soon as you exit your vehicle. Many people had scarves covering their faces because the sulphur odor is so...More

if you want to climb the volcano, approach it from the north end!! the south end is waaaaay too steep.

Steam vents, bubbling mud pools, stunning views of fissures & mountains---you can't miss this spot if you're driving through the Myvatn area. But the smell from the vents is gawd-awful. Cover your nose or suffer the consequences.

Very close to highway 1 and plenty of parking. Lots of boiling mud pools and steam vents. Also, not too smelly.

The whole field is with sulphur hydroxide gas generated from the cold water seeping to magma intrusion generating steam that come back to the atmosphere as sulphur hydroxide. A marvelous natural gaseous reaction and on a huge field scale. On the ground surface also seen...More