Landbrotalaug Hot Spring

Landbrotalaug sits in lava and marsh beyond the Eldborg crater, on the eastern edge of the Snæfellsnes Peninsula in west Iceland. The best-known pool is a stone hollow with room for two, three at a squeeze, kept at a gentle bathing warmth by water seeping up beneath it; a larger, shallower and cooler pool lies alongside. There are no buildings, no fees and no signs — the draw is the quiet soak in the open, with mountains on the horizon and often no one else around.