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There are places in the world where you feel the landscape rather than just see it. South Iceland is one of them. Camping here means waking up to the sound of a river, stepping outside to find a glacier filling your entire field of vision, or lying on your back in the grass as the midnight sun grazes the horizon, then slowly and unhurriedly, rises again.

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Dyrhólaey is one of the most striking headlands on Iceland's south coast, a 120-metre-high promontory rising out of the black sand just west of Vík. Its name means "the hill with the door-hole," a reference to the massive natural arch carved through the rock by the sea. On calm days the arch is wide enough that a small plane once flew through it, a stunt pulled off by an ...

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The Alaskan lupine (Lupinus nootkatensis) turns large parts of South Iceland deep purple every summer. The blooming season is short but spectacular: expect peak colour from mid-June to mid-July, with the southern coast usually flowering a week or two earlier than higher inland areas.

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Puffins arrive in South Iceland in late April and stay through mid-August, with peak viewing from mid-May to early August. By the time the chicks fledge in late summer, the colonies grow quiet again until the following spring.

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