西峡湾
Travel Guide

The Westfjords are what the rest of Iceland felt like thirty years ago. This great clawed peninsula in the northwest is so deeply cut by fjords that a map shows more water than land, and the roads that trace those fjord walls take three times as long to drive as the straight-line distance suggests.

The reward is a sense of space found almost nowhere else in Europe. Dynjandi tumbles in a bridal-veil of tiers into Arnarfjörður; Látrabjarg's fourteen-kilometre cliffs host millions of puffins and razorbills at Iceland's westernmost point; and Rauðisandur's red sand stretches empty even in August.

Beyond the roads lies Hornstrandir, a roadless nature reserve of hiking trails and fearless arctic foxes. The Westfjords demand commitment — long gravel roads, sparse fuel, a short season — but travellers who make the effort routinely call it their favourite part of Iceland.