What do you want to do?

6 moments Look at what the earth did Geology and landscape. It is there whether or not anybody comes.

Find a waterfall still running inside a cliff of icicles Seljalandsfoss Go inside a cave of blue ice that will not exist next year Breiðamerkurjökull Stand where a lake hangs above the ocean Trælanípa Walk under a cliff of black stone stacked like organ pipes Reynisfjara Watch a waterfall land in the ocean Gásadalur Watch thousand-year-old ice drift out to sea Jökulsárlón

2 moments Be there when it happens It has a time. Miss the night, the season or the hour and you miss it.

Watch a geyser throw boiling water fifteen meters into the air Strokkur Watch the sky turn green in a field with no lights Hella

4 moments Get there the hard way The way there is the point: by boat, on foot, over a pass.

Drive through the only roundabout in the world built under the sea Klaksvík Step off a moving boat onto the quay Mykines Walk out to a lighthouse on a ridge that drops away on both sides Kallur Walk up a glacier in crampons, above where its ice ended thirty years ago Sólheimajökull

1 moment Get close to an animal On its own ground, not in an enclosure.

Sit in the grass while puffins land an arm's length away Mykines

2 moments Get in the water Cold or hot, in it rather than beside it.

Float in the gap between two continents Silfra Sit in hot water at the edge of the sea while it snows Sky Lagoon

1 moment Make it with your hands You leave with the thing, or with knowing how.

Spin wool straight off the sheep into thread Nólsoy

1 moment Eat and drink Food and drink you can only have there.

Eat dinner in a log house one family has lived in for seventeen generations Kirkjubøur