Vök Baths East Fjords

Vök Baths is an innovative geothermal spa in the East Fjords of Iceland, built in and around the geothermal spring of Lake Urriðavatn near the town of Egilsstaðir, where siliceous and bicarbonate-rich geothermal water wells up directly through the lake bed creating a unique floating pool experience in one of Iceland's most serene and little-visited landscapes. The spa's design concept places heated geothermal pools actually extending over the surface of Lake Urriðavatn, allowing bathers to experience the sensation of floating on the calm lake water while immersed in warm mineral spring water — a bathing experience of extraordinary sensory poetics unique in the world. The East Fjords region of Iceland, with its narrow mountain valleys dropping steeply to the sea, its reindeer herds, puffin colonies, and the spectacular Vatnajökull glacier visible to the south, is one of Iceland's least-visited and most authentically Icelandic regions. Vök Baths represents a new generation of thoughtfully designed Icelandic geothermal experiences that complement rather than compete with the natural grandeur of their setting.