Route through Iceland in a motorhome: route and own experience

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Iceland by motorhome or camper

Iceland by motorhome: the great trip

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Post publication:28/12/2022
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Route through Iceland by motorhome

Iceland is one of the best places to travel by motorhome, camper or even tent. It is full of campsites and the nature that surrounds you is ideal to enjoy on a road trip.

inside our Guide to travel to Iceland In a motorhome you have this post that we tell you about the experience of a Kucavanera family below.

It is basically a nature trip, an impressive nature that leaves you with your mouth open, in a very sparsely inhabited country with little infrastructure in many places.

With very changeable and very unpredictable weather (it can suddenly rain and wind non-stop like the overwhelming sun), having a motorhome is wonderful, especially if you are traveling with children and have to change clothes and so on.

In the covid era, the government of the country has given many facilities in terms of aid if you got sick while you are on the road.

Iceland, a place of contrasts and dreamlike landscapes

In Iceland you will enjoy contrasts and incredible landscapes that you will not find in other places on the planet: Volcanoes, waterfalls, glaciers, thermal lakes, moss-covered expanses of lava ...

The children will learn a lot from this landscape and you will live precious moments in the motorhome as a family. In our BLOG personal THE TRAVELS OF MAPANI We give you all the details of budgets, itineraries and others

I encourage you to travel to Iceland as a family!

Rent or take your motorhome in Iceland

In Iceland you can rent one of their multiple motorhomes or camper vans for a price slightly higher than in Spain (from 150 to 300 euros for 4 people approximately the day depending on the season and days).

Now if you want you can too take your motorhome by ferry from Denmark.

From Spain to Denmark, (palizón of kilometers and at least 2/3 days one way), there you must take a boat that crosses you to Iceland, passing through the Faroe Islands (it takes 2 days to get to Iceland, like a cruise yes ), and once you've visited Iceland, make your way back. That is, at least 5 days to get to Iceland and another 5 back, plus the time you want to be in the country itself.

It is viable, yes, but many days to reach the destination and return. And the price, for 4 people and a motorhome of about 7 meters, is around 7000 euros round trip if you book the ferry in time. If you are going to be in Iceland for more than 3 weeks, maybe it is worth it, but for less it will surely be better for you to take a plane and rent a motorhome in Iceland

Iceland by motorhome: Regulations and camper culture

Traveling to Iceland by motorhome has been a very typical way of touring the country since always, before it could be done on your own, but to preserve the great natural wealth that the country has and in the face of the large influx of tourists in recent times, since 2015 free camping and free overnight stays are prohibited. You have to spend the night at the campsite or in free designated areas (there are very few).
There is a great network of campsites that with the card https://utilegukortid.is/?lang=enthey come out at a good price.

There are many maps with the campsites and areas of allowed overnight stay, there is no problem to get that information.

But you have to be careful and plan your route very well, because leaving the south behind, the towns are increasingly distant, there are fewer gas stations, almost no supermarkets, etc. So you must know the terrain well at these levels before starting the route every day and always bring food and go with the tank as full as possible in your motorhome or camper.

Our route through Iceland by motorhome

Iceland is a "wild" island and has only one main road, the one, called "Ring Road", because it surrounds the entire island and following this road are almost all the important points to visit.

There are those who surround the island with a clockwise or counterclockwise signature. We traveled it counterclockwise starting from the main airport of Keflavik, following the Golden Circle (where the most visited waterfalls and natural places are).

South Iceland by motorhome

Later by the on to Vik going through impressive waterfalls of the old coastline. From one o'clock you make small forays to the southeast to see the eruption still, touring the impressive and visiting.

East, West and North Iceland by motorhome

At this The landscapes are changing, first you enter the fjords and dream towns, and then you lose the typical Icelandic green to enter the arid north, full of volcanoes and sulfurous zones, un typical landscape from another planet. Finally, go through the West, It is not that it is less beautiful, but something must be left in the inkwell, to get to Reykjavik, its small but charming capital.

Central Iceland by motorhome

El The center of the island is not accessible by motorhome or normal vehicle, it is only accessible to off-road vehicles. There are no roads, they are roads with river fording areas. Therefore, to get to know the uninhabited and wild center of the island, you have to hire an excursion or buy a ticket for a special bus with all-terrain wheels, which makes a foray into the center. The insurance of the rental motorhome makes it very clear, it does not cover any damage that happens on roads where the use of vehicles other than todorreno is not allowed.

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