Iceland. Part two. How to travel around Iceland with kids ?

Iceland. The land of eternal beauty. The land where countless waterfalls carry furiously tons of purest glacial water. Where you can indeed feel the magic, standing on the other side of the flowing wall of melted ice. Even with a baby strapped to you in a cosy babybjorn, of course. Iceland, the land of boiling mud pots, where the Earth literally talks to you hissing clouds of sulfur steam from deep within its heart. The land of mighty glaciers quietly uncovering their beauty to anyone in need of stunning nature. Where you can get so close to them that you can actually touch the thousands year old ice. Where you can take a boat trip on a famous Ice Lagoon and drift quietly among monumental icebergs and look at your children smiling to a view of swimming seals in their natural,so amazing, habitat. Iceland, where on the same day you can show your children seals playing in freezing waters and gracious reindeer feeding on the harsh Icelandic grass just next to the road you're driving...

And that was, what has surprised me the most in this extraordinary country - the easiness of seeing the magnificent Iceland's treasures. You can virtually see the glaciers, the Ice Lagoon, the waterfalls, the steaming Earth just from the seat of your car. If you'll leave the car, put your infant in a baby carrier and take a hike that is easy manageable for a 5 year old Iceland will reward you with exceptional beauty and places just out of this World.

So, what is the best way to travel around Iceland with kids?

Definitely the car. Before going to Iceland I took into account other options like being based in Reykjavik and seeing Iceland by taking trips with travel agencies. This is unfortunately pretty expensive and in my opinion not so easy with a baby, as you need to do everything on their schedules. Renting a car enables you:

to travel on your own speed,

to stop whenever you need, especially important with children/baby,

to see the things that you/your children are interested to see,

or to change your mind and not to go to place that you thought would be good to go to ,because the weather has changed or your children are just fed up with traveling at the moment and you just skip the place and go directly to the hotel.

Our decision then was to rent a car from the airport and drive around Iceland. 

We made the car rental reservation on line few months ahead our travel, as it can get very difficult with car rentals availability during months May to early September, the main travel period in Iceland. We took the car seats for our children from home (each airline offers free transport of baby/child seat) and...started our adventure. 

The fact that Iceland has only ONE main road, the Ring road, that enables one to circle the island, make life easier for the traveler. It is Route 1 and it is difficult to get lost there.

to be continued...

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