Iceland is more than waterfalls. It also has amazing glaciers and icebergs that calve off of them. In the south we got to see the world famous Vatnajökull glacier. This glacier is not only the largest glacier in Iceland, it is the largest glacier in Europe. In fact it is larger than all of Europe’s glaciers combined! At its thickest it is up to a kilometer thick. (3,200 ft.). Think about that if you stood on the ground at the base of the glacier, the top would be 1Km up!

In the southeast part of Iceland this massive glacier pours through every crack in the coastal mountains.  At every turn it seemed we saw one of the tongue glaciers spreading out from the parent glacier. The glacier was used as a setting for the recent HBO series Game of Thrones. The glacier here is called Breiδamerkurjökulland it is a tongue glacier or extension of Vatnajökull glacier.

In the southeast part of Iceland this massive glacier pours through every crack in the coastal mountains.  At every turn it seemed we saw one of the tongue glaciers spreading out from the parent glacier. The glacier was used as a setting for the recent HBO series Game of Thrones.

These are icebergs in front of the massive glacier floating in the lagoon.

We stopped at a glacial lagoon where giant pieces of the glacier calved into the ocean leaving icebergs floating in the war, or stuck to the bottom.  It was fantastic. With ice floes or icebergs floating on a lagoon with mountains in the foreground it  is certainly one of Iceland’s treasures. Frankly, I had not expected this. It was  a most pleasant surprise.

The lagoon is called Jökulsárlónand it was unknown until this part of Iceland was opened up by the construction of the ring road. There were no bridges over the rivers here until then. This area was the final phase of the ring road. Now people can drive from Reykjavik to here in one day. Since then it has become a major tourist destination and I can understand why. It was fantastic.  The lagoon served as the background for two James Bond films: A View to a Killand Die Another Day as well as other Hollywood films such asTomb Raiderand Batman Begins.