Búðir – 2 hours from Reykjavik – easy drive
Stay: Hotel Búðir
A very special hotel and place. Amazing food. Views of Snaefellsjokull glacier (where Journey to the Center of the Earth book and movie are set) and the ocean/beaches. Set among an old lava flow there are beautiful walking and running trails. Gorgeous black church there too with mountain and glacier views.
The peninsula the hotel is set on is considered by many to be “Iceland in miniature.”
To do: check out Djúpalón Beach
black church
walk some trails by the coast with glacier and sea views
eat delicious food at Hotel Budir, Hotel Hellnar,
visit Vatnshellir Cave
If you are feeling adventurous, and you are up for some hiking, check out Rauðfeldsgjá gorge. Directions to it and a good description can be found here.
Eat: Hotel Búðir
On way to/from Búðir- stop in Borgarnes at the first bakery (“Bakari”), named Geirabakari, on the left connected to the grocery store “Hagkaup.” Amazing sandwiches, sweets for the road or to eat there with a nice view of water and mountains and great soup of the day. Great food for the $$ here.
