Landmannalaugar is a truly rare area, both geologically and aesthetically. The dramatic region can be found nestled beside the raven-black Laugahraun lava field, a sweeping expanse of dried magma which originally formed in an eruption in 1477. Landmannalaugar itself is made up of windswept rhyolite mountains, a rock type that creates a full spectrum of dazzling colour. Shades of red, pink, green, blue and golden yellow make for an ethereal location.

Landmannalaugar is the usual starting point for a four-day-long hiking trail called Laugavegur. Each day of hiking is like discovering a new planet, the trail leads from high peaks to the valleys and canyons, from colorful mountains, through the lava desert, across vast rivers and ending in Thórsmörk (Valley of Thor), which atypically for Iceland is a forest filled with small trees and bushes as well as variety of other plants. If you have enough time you can add one or two days, hiking all the way to Skógar nearly at the coast and finish between the two glaciers Eyjafjallajökull and Mýrdalsjökull.