In Iceland, time spent swimming is considered a health necessity and social activity. Everything you need to know about Iceland, and Icelanders, will reveal itself while having a soak.

From a hot spring, swim-up bar, on-site spa, and relaxing areas of lounging or sitting, the Laugarás Lagoon says it offers ...

If you follow the Ring Road around Iceland then you will eventually come to the town of Akureyri, located in the north of the ...

I've been to both the Blue Lagoon and the Sky Lagoon in Iceland, but there's only one I'd go back to again and again.

An eager flock of 20 or so 7-year-old girls raided the shower room, buck naked — just the wake-up call I asked for amidst Reykjavik’s complete 11 a.m. darkness. My mom and I clutched our ...

Far less crowded than the Blue Lagoon, the oldest swimming pool in Iceland (since 1891!) welcomes visitors to experience an authentic thermal escape in nature.

Swimming in Iceland is not what most visitors think about visiting this northern European Island Country. Cold weather, midnight sun, beautiful ice mountains is more what comes to mind. However ...

If nearly everyone in Iceland has a local pool, said Hafstein, who is developing an exhibition on Icelandic swimming pools for the Museum of Design and Applied Art outside of Reykjavik, it’s ...

I Planned My Own Hot Springs Crawl Around Iceland — Here's How It Went. From luxury lagoons to neighborhood swimming holes, these are the best hot springs near Reykjavík.

Athlete-adventurer Ross Edgley, the first man to swim around great Britain, ... Now, in 2025, he has his sights set on a new world first: swimming around Iceland’s entire coastline.