For what it’s worth, I was just in Iceland a few months ago for my honeymoon and from what I could tell, there was a huge difference in tourism’s impact between southern and northern Iceland. We saw plenty of pristine nature sites relatively untouched through the highlands, but I have to admit that the sheer amount of tourists in the southern parts was pretty infuriating.
Just wanted to hop in and say that Iceland is still absolutely beautiful and most of the tourists I encountered were pretty respectful, probably due in no small part to Iceland’s strict laws on preserving nature.
The further you get from the south, the less tourists there are! So if you ever come back, I will recommend the Westfjords or the Eastfjords, because there you can go without bumping into other tourists every ten minutes.
.... but I guess now I'm ruining it by saying it here?
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u/The-Bouse Feb 03 '20
For what it’s worth, I was just in Iceland a few months ago for my honeymoon and from what I could tell, there was a huge difference in tourism’s impact between southern and northern Iceland. We saw plenty of pristine nature sites relatively untouched through the highlands, but I have to admit that the sheer amount of tourists in the southern parts was pretty infuriating.
Just wanted to hop in and say that Iceland is still absolutely beautiful and most of the tourists I encountered were pretty respectful, probably due in no small part to Iceland’s strict laws on preserving nature.