Experience the best of Djúpivogur

Djúpivogur stands on a small peninsula between the Berufjörður and Hamarsfjörður fjords in East Iceland, about 210 km south-east of Akureyri in a straight line. Búlandstindur, a pyramid-shaped mountain of about 1,070 metres, rises straight from the water behind the village. By the harbour, Langabúð, a timber warehouse from 1790, is now a museum and café, and on the shore Eggin í Gleðivík is a row of 34 large granite eggs, each modelled on a local nesting bird.

Boats run to the small island of Papey, where puffins nest in summer. Wild reindeer, introduced in the eighteenth century, roam the highlands inland. The ring road follows the fjord shores south-west towards Höfn and the glaciers of Vatnajökull National Park, with the glacier lagoon of Jökulsárlón farther along.

Djúpivogur belongs to the international Cittaslow network of towns that favour slow living and local food, so fish, lamb and skyr are served with little hurry. Summers are cool and bright, with almost endless light in June, and winters are dark and snowy, with northern lights from autumn to spring. The coast is often misty, and the roads are easiest from June to August.