Southern Iceland is pretty different from all the rest of the country. It is a bit less wild and therefore more touristic, so be ready for tourist buses everywhere, also higher prices and a bit colder attitude of locals. But it is beautiful nevertheless. The mightiest volcanoes are situated here, and when you drive on the ringroad, you have a vast plain on one side going to the ocean, which is constantely being widened by volcano debris and was not there some hundreds years ago, when the shore was right next to the mountains (so technically Iceland´s area enlarges every year by a few meters). On the other side there are almost vertical slopes of those volcanoes. It is pretty impressive and you really feel huge respect. Let´s go through what is worth seeing in the South. The rest is basically a tourist trap from your guidebook. As we did the whole ringroad, we came to the South from East, and that is the direction in which I will point out the sites.
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