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Hveravellir - Hveravellir, amazing natural resources.
In the centre of Iceland, on a mountain road called Kjalvegur, there is a unspoiled and protected area called Hveravellir (hot spring plains).
Kjalvegur usually opens in the middle of June and it remains open until September or October, but it depends on the weather.
Hveravellir is one of the many amazing natural resources in Iceland. Its positioned between two glaciers, Langjökull and Hofsjökull. The hot spring area, natural hot pool, glaciers and magnificiant view are the main attractions.
At Hveravellir there are both steam and water hot springs.

This pearl of the interior is situated in a valley between colourful mountains at the dark edge of the rhyolite lava field Laugahraun. Many hot and cold springs create a bathing warm brook, where people bathe. The banks of the brook are boggy and lush vegetated and people are kindly asked to use the wooden path across the bog to the brook. It is forbidden to use soap in the brook. The surroundings of L. are too colourful and magnificent to describe with words. The mountains are split with gullies and gorges, one of which, the Jokulgil, is about 13 km long.

It is possible to hike all the way to its end, when the river is not swollen, and there are several other hiking possibilities in the area. Landmannalaugar is also the starting point for those, who want to hike to the Thorsmork area in the south. It is easy to walk there in three days, but many prefer to spend more time enroute to be able to enjoy the trip to the utmost. The tourist hut in Landmannalaugar accommodates 110 or more people and there is a camping area, where it is extremely difficult to drive the pegs into the ground, and if it starts blowing hard, rocks have to be used to weigh the tents down. People are kindly asked to return the rocks to the wooden crates after use. Landmannalaugar is a part of a larger nature reserve.

Situated in the Highlands of Iceland you find the Kerlingafjöll (1477m), near the Kjölur highland road. During a volcanic eruption in ice age Kerlingafjöll were formed. It is thought that the area might still be active but is has not erupted in the present time.

Kerlingafjöll is one of the most powerful hot spring area in the country with geysers of clay  and is the center system of volcanoes that is over 100 km². The volcanic rhyolite stone gives the earth a shimmering red colour and the minerals that have emerged from the hot springs in the area also colour the ground with red, green and yellow.
The glaciers streams reach down into Þórsmörk and the geysers melts the ice and creates impressive arches, caves and ice rocks all mixed into the colours of the landscape makes this a unique and a extremely beautiful place to see.

For further information: www.kerlingarfjoll.is/

Hvítárvatn (also known as Hvítárlón) is a lake in the Highlands of Iceland and the source of glacial river Hvítá. It is located 45 km northeast of  Gullfoss. Its surface is about 30 km²; its greatest depth is 84 m. Lake Hvitarvatn has an area of 29,4 km². Its greatest depth is 84 m and it is situated 421 m above sea level at the eastern edge of the country's second largest glacier, Langjokull, in the central highlands.  Its discharge is the glacial river Hvita, which contains the famous Golden Waterfalls. One of three main roads crossing the central highlands, The Kjalvegur route (F37), passes to the south and east of the lake and it is accessible from that road in two places. On lake Hvitarvatn you can expect one of the most spectacular sceneries in the country on a fine day.