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After our pre­vi­ous trips to the far north, which we thor­ough­ly enjoyed, we had planned a new Nordic adven­ture for 2025: this time, we want­ed to spend two weeks (from June 7th to June 21st, 2025) in Ice­land and - an absolute first for us - we want­ed to trav­el there in a motorhome. Our long-time trav­el com­pan­ions Andrea and Har­ry had already tak­en such a trip two years ear­li­er. Their reports and their great trav­el video got us hooked.

After exten­sive research, we booked the entire trip, includ­ing flights and camper rental, at the end of 2024. Every­thing was straight­for­ward, and the trip went perfectly.

All in all, we cov­ered a good 3,300 km in our camper van, trav­el­ing coun­ter­clock­wise around Ice­land. Our route can be seen on the map above, start­ing and end­ing in Keflavik.

The trip was sim­ply over­whelm­ing! Hard­ly any oth­er coun­try com­bines so many con­trasts: green forests, blue lupine fields, bizarre lava fields with­out any veg­e­ta­tion, wide plains, and impos­ing, snow-capped moun­tains. Add to that the count­less water­falls, the huge glac­i­ers, and the bound­less expanse—we could­n’t stop mar­veling at it all. Ice­land is a nat­ur­al won­der that you sim­ply have to expe­ri­ence for yourself!

A very spe­cial high­light of the trip were our two vis­its to the puf­fin colonies on the Dyrhólaey penin­su­la near the town of Vik and in Bor­gar­f­jarðarhöfn in the West­fjords. Here we had plen­ty of oppor­tu­ni­ties to observe and pho­to­graph the cute puffins up close. I took so many beau­ti­ful pic­tures that I have now cre­at­ed my own puf­fin cal­en­dar from the best ones.

We par­tic­u­lar­ly enjoyed the free­dom in our own motorhome. We lived in it com­plete­ly for two weeks, cook­ing, sleep­ing, and show­er­ing in it. It’s like hav­ing your hotel with you at all times, so you can relax with a cof­fee any­time, any­where. We only went to restau­rants twice. The free­dom to decide spon­ta­neous­ly where to go at any time is won­der­ful. We only used the camp­sites for sup­plies, waste dis­pos­al, and electricity.

If you would like to find out more about Ice­land, I have now writ­ten anoth­er exten­sive­ly illus­trat­ed trav­el report “Ice­land 2025″ about this amaz­ing trip here on the website.