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Day trip to Silver Circle? ending in Selfoss

After spending our first night off plane in Reykjavik we are planning a day in the "silver circle," our accommodations this night are in Selfoss. Snaefellsness is further afield and perhaps too ambitious in our time frame?

Here's what I think we will do....thoughts? Additions? Places to eat?

Does this need to. be ordered differently? We are not planning the ice cave or viogelmir or any bath visits this day.

Reykjavik to Borgarnes with maybe stop in Akranes (see lighthouse)
Borgarnes to Deildartunguhver (unclear if I need tickets here - seems like a quick visit?)
Deildartunguhver to Hraunfossar & Barnafoss (water falls):
Hraunfossar/Barnafoss
back to Reykjavik through the Hvalfjörður fjord ( though this route may make no sense) and onto Selfoss

I'm hoping to drop a stop at the horse farm in here for a stable tour (sturlureykir). Availability unclear at moment so not sure where it would fit into the day..

Maybe this should include grabok Crater (maybe not enough time) instead? Or Reykholt?

Open to all suggestions

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Akranes won't take but about 15 minutes, so you could easily add that in, or skip it.

Note that at Hraunfossar/Barnafoss the toilets are coin only, so have a few 100kr coins on you just in case.

Hvalfjörður fjord is pretty, and takes you to Hvammsvik, which I adore, but if you have no interest in a lagoon then skip this.

The drive time will be long even with skipping Akranes, hvalfjörður fjord, and a horse farm at close to 5 hours. Whatever google maps says, add on quite a bit more as the driving in Iceland is slow.

Do you have more time for along the south coast after this? If so, honestly I would skip this itinerary and stick more to Snaefellsness vs these outliers. The waterfalls along the south coast are very impressive, but also up in Snaefellsnes, so you could skip these here.

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We will do a trip down to via later in the week.

Maybe skipping akranes makes sense. 5 hours is about the max amount of driving we want in a day.

thank you