Jutting 90 kilometres into the North Atlantic, the Snæfellsnes peninsula contains more of Iceland's essential character per kilometre than almost anywhere else in the country. Lava fields, black sand beaches, fishing villages, and the glacier-capped stratovolcano Snæfellsjökull, the setting for Jules Verne's journey to the centre of the earth, all within a day's drive from Reykjavik.

It is one of the few places in Iceland where the landscape shifts dramatically every few kilometres, and where the light, whether midnight sun or winter dusk, consistently stops people in their tracks. Quiet enough to feel unhurried, varied enough to reward a slower pace.