Trip To Iceland Post #22: Reynisfjara Beach

After our visit to the glacier, we drove a bit further down the main ring road in Iceland and stopped at the Reynisfjara Beach. This is a black sand beach that offers views of amazing rock features as well as numerous birds flying all over and maybe a puffin or two if you are lucky. We didn't see any puffins during our visit, but when I was here in 2014, we did see a few.

You can't tell from the pictures as we took great care to get people-free pictures, but this beach was packed! Four years ago it was a small gravel lot, but now it is massive paved parking lot (at least part of it) and there were people everywhere! Iceland has been devoted to increasing tourism over the last few years and it shows in the number of people you see at attractions on the south side of the island.

The water is far to cold to go swimming, and why would you want to given the large number of naturally heating hot springs and swimming pools, but the beach offers beautiful views. Mark this each down as a must see on your visit to Iceland. There's a trend in all of these Iceland posts. Everything is a must see, which basically means you need to do one long trip to Iceland or plan on several visits over your lifetime!