The road is better to be avoided if you don’t have all it takes – a proper car, enough experience, and perfect knowledge of river crossing rules. Another: “F899 isn’t as rugged as some other F-roads, however, it still has numerous streams and unbridged rivers that need to be crossed, even though none of the rivers were super deep when we did this trip. It is possible to tour the Ring Road in 7 days, but in that case you have to be quite strict with where you stop or not, In my opinion, 635 isn’t as exciting a driving experience as road 643 for example, but it’s still a nice drive if you have some spare time to spend in Westfjords.

Most of the “bloggers” will advise you that F88 is much more dangerous and harder to drive than F905 and F910 combination. Feel free to read how to choose a proper car or how to pick the best Icelandic car rental insurance.There are also pretty big holes in the road, even our modified Land Cruiser struggled at times when we drove the road. That’s why many visitors opt for leaving their cars at the parking lot just before the river crossings. You need an SUV with sufficient ground clearance because the road is very bumpy with many big boulders being part of the terrain. I don’t know how difficult this one is (I took the turn to F333), but you cross the same river on a bridge near Geysir, and it looks doable there. That being said, we better recommend taking any 4wd car, even a small-sized SUV, that would be fine for this part of F208 even in worse weather.

You need a high ground clearance for crossing the lava field after Botni (thanks Volker Jungmann for pointing that out). I will travel to Iceland in 2 weeks and I am wondering if the F349-old-Kerlingarfjoll is still driveable? A typical Icelandic visitor will never drive this road, nor hear about this road, central F910 is simply too far off.Even though we had a free wi-fi included in our car rental (and our smartphones with a European internet coverage) there were often times when our trip led us to areas without any internet or any cell phone network coverage. It’s considered at least a medium-sized river crossing and can become a bigger one when it rains a lot.

The two medium river crossings are on google´s F905, around 30km from road nr 1, and there are no rivers to cross on google´s F910. You’ve put together amazing information that every traveller should know of, especially when trying to access the most remote (and fantastic) places. There are some parts with sand and rough, unmaintained terrain, plus it’s an F-road, so definitely at least a small 4wd car. Hi, some of the F-roads, especially in the central Iceland and northeast are already closed as can be observed on http://www.I highly recommend stopping for a coffee break or lunch at Steinshús if you happen to be on this road. Since you wrote that you are preparing a post about it I’d like to ask a rapid piece of advice: how is F910 from Askja to Nydalur? F894 is a very rough unpaved road that will shake the hell out of you but otherwise isn’t dangerous at all. There is a second river crossing also, but that one is located a little bit before the end of the road. The mountain pass is quite steep at some places, but the road is generally in good condition and shouldn’t be a problem for a simple crossover for example.