Iceland offers truly special experiences for those looking for a new adventure. A unique island to be discovered and which from June will be accessible with Play flights departing from Venice and Bologna.
Iceland is an exceptional destination, made of fire and ice. Those who visit it are struck by its primordial nature and cannot fail to explore its waterfalls and imposing volcanoes, take a bath in the geothermal springs or watch whales. But the country offers many other special experiences.
Inside a heart of ice
In the second largest glacier in Europe, Langjökull, a very long tunnel has been dug at the end of which there is even a votive chapel. The entrance to the huge quarry is located at an altitude of 1,200 meters and can only be reached by a monster truck ride. Once inside, the white, violet and blue suggestions offer unexpected emotions, in the center of the earth.
24 hours of sunshine
Visiting Iceland in the summer means forgetting what darkness is, because it really never sets at this time of year. So why not
devote yourself, in the traditionally dark hours, to activities usually considered daytime, such as playing golf or horse riding? To take full advantage of your energies and moments of light, even at midnight.
A dive between two continents
In Iceland you can snorkel or dive between the two tectonic plates that gave rise to the island 18 million years ago. Silfra is the only place in the world where you 
can swim suspended between two continents, the European and the American. Its waters are so transparent, and offer such a clear view of the abyss, that swimming you almost have the sensation of flying.
At Erik the Red’s house
At the end of the last century archaeological excavations in western Iceland unearthed the remains of a peat farm built according to Viking canons, identified as the home of Erik the Red, who discovered and gave his name to Greenland. A faithful replica of the farm has been built a few meters away and can be visited with a guide. Those interested in the life of the first settlers who arrived here from the Scandinavian peninsula can travel back in time at the Reykjavík City Museum: the permanent exhibition The Settlement Exhibition recounts, with technological and interactive supports, the colonization of Iceland and the adventures of the first Vikings who l ‘they populated.
The sky in a room
Furnished with care and equipped with every comfort, including an outdoor bathtub, the Panorama Glass Lodges – completely
glass lodges located on the southern and western coast of the island – allow you to immerse yourself completely in the surrounding nature. To feel like the Vikings who first populated the island, Torfhús Retreat offers stone and wood cottages with the traditional roof made of mud and grass, distributed in a boundless clearing. Breakfast and dinner, based on zero-kilometer ingredients, are instead served in a large elongated house in a traditional Scandinavian style. Perfect for calculating the movements of the sky, the Bubble Hotel is a transparent dome in the middle of the woods.
PLAY, the Icelandic low-cost airline that operates between Iceland and Europe and North America, will connect Bologna and Venice to Reykjavík’s Keflavík airport this summer with flights twice a week. The connections from Bologna will be operational from 6 June on Tuesdays and Saturdays, while those from Venice will leave on Thursdays and Sundays from 29 June.
Info: flyplay.com
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