6 Tips for Driving the Ring Road in Iceland

Alyssa Hollingsworth | March 7, 2016

2. Take Your Time

In its entirety, the Ring Road is about 830 miles long. As an American accustomed to road trips, I planned our itinerary with about 2-4 hours of driving every day so that we could do the whole route in five days. It sounded doable–and is doable–but by the time we came back to Reykjavik we were both more zombie than human.

At our stop-off in Jökulsárlón (a glacier lagoon), we made friends with a photography club who were doing the Ring Road in the opposite direction. They had blocked out two weeks for the entire route, including plenty of stops on the way that we’d had to rush through or skip. That’s the way to do it, if you ask me!

Arian Zwegers

Give yourself more time. The trip becomes more flexible, fun, and spontaneous–and you can sleep in if you want!

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