Born out of fire, made for bathing.

Iceland sits on a seam in the planet: the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where two tectonic plates are slowly pulling apart. The same forces that keep splitting the island open, around thirty active volcanic systems, also heat the water underneath it, and Icelanders have been bathing in it since the first settlers arrived. In the 1200s the saga writer Snorri Sturluson had a stone-lined hot pool at his farm in Reykholt. Snorralaug is still there, and you’ll find a copy of it at Sky Lagoon.

What has changed is the scale. Over the past few years a new generation of geothermal lagoons has opened all around the country: ocean-edge infinity pools, baths in birch forests, pools that fill and empty with the tide, baths floating on a lake, and pools fed by a road tunnel. Older favourites have been rebuilt and expanded, and a few small local baths carry on much as they always have.

Lagoon Land gathers every one of them in one place. Use the map to see where they are, read why each one is worth the drive, and book your visit when you’re ready.