PRICE

Twin/Double room: 2.330,- Single suppliment: 490,- VIP seating suppliment: 200,- All prices are per person and in EUR

CHILDREN RATE

Children 6-11 years sharing a room and/or traveling with a guardian will receive 50% discount from the listed price. Children 12 years and older pay full price as adults. It is not recommended that children 0-5 years old travel on scheduled tours.

INCLUDES

10 days guided tour from/to Reykjavík Accommodation in hotels or guesthouses Half board, breakfast and 3 course dinner. From dinner on the first day till breakfast on the last day. Picnic lunch on days 5 and 8

EXCLUDES

Optional actvities Any service not specifically mentioned under "included"

GROUP SIZE

From 8 to 24 passengers

Walking, Touring and whale watching. The world at your feet, with an average of three hours walking a day in some of the most beautiful parts of Iceland. Highlights include visiting three National Parks  Þingvellir, Skaftafell and Jökulsárgljúfur, the wonders of Landmannalaugar and Lake Mývatn, for its latitude the most fertile area in the world. There are waterfalls including the awesome Dettifoss, the most powerful in Europe. The tour includes, weather permitting, a 3 hour whale watching cruise sailing from Húsavík.
Lots to see but little to carry, as the tour bus will convey your luggage. Accommodation is provided in hotels with private facilities. The hotels used on tours are often “summer hotels” used most of the year as boarding schools or country hotels which are simple and clean.
 
 
DAY 1 - Reykjavík - Gullfoss - Geysir - Skaftafell
The day starts with a drive over Hellisheiði Mountain to the greenhouse village of Hveragerði.  Then on through the southern farmlands to the famous Geysir area. In the area you will find the Geysir Strokkur that spouts every 5-10 minutes. Continue to the edge of the highlands to visit Gullfoss (the golden waterfall) one of Iceland’s favorite waterfalls.

 

We continue through the biggest agricultural area in Iceland, the south lowlands with stops at the waterfalls Seljalandsfoss and Skógafoss.  We pass the village of Vík and drive through the black sands of Mýrdalsjökull and through the lava fields of Eldhraun (Fire Lava) resulted from a yearlong eruption in 1783 before arriving a the small village of Kirkjubæjarklaustur.

DAY 2 - Walking in Skaftafell

Skaftafell is today a part of the Vatnajökull National Park, the largest national park in Europe. The area nestles under the slopes of Vatnajökull, Europe’s largest glacier and is dominated by Iceland’s highest peak Mount Öræfajökull. There are several hiking trails and today will be spent walking in the area. We will hike up to the waterfall Svartifoss (Black Fall), which is surrounded by black basalt columns, and we walk up to Sjónsker (View Cliff) from where, weather permitting, we continue our walk up to Kristínartindar. From Sjónsker we have a magnificent view of the area that was flooded during an eruption under the ice cap in the year 1996 and we also get a good view of Mount Öræfajökull.

DAY 3 - Skaftafell - Fljótsdalshérað

We drive eastwards along the southern coast with the Atlantic Ocean to the south and Vatnajökull, Europe’s largest glacier to the north. Weather permitting we will see magnificent glacial tongues descending from the main ice cap and at one place creating a large glacial lagoon, with large floating icebergs  melting slowly to feed Iceland’s shortest river, Jökulsá á Breiðamerkursandi. Here we stop to take a boat tour to sail among the icebergs on the lagoon. From there we continue to the Eastern Fjords, passing the towns Höfn and Djúpivogur and on to Egilsstaðir. Two nights overnight in the Egilsstaðir area.

DAY 4 - Walking through Viking Trails

Today we drive to Borgarfjörður Eystri (Borgarfjörður in the East), so named because there are two fjords with this name in Iceland. There are few places where you can find so colorful and magnificent mountains. But besides unique geological formations and numerous species of rock, that make this area so interesting and worth visiting, there are also easily accessible bird cliffs, teeming with life during the nesting area, and several tales of “Hidden People” and other supernatural beings and their interactions with humans have taken place here. Today will be spent walking in this beautiful and magnificent area.

DAY 5 - Fljótsdalshérað - Askja - Herðubreiðarlindir - Mývatn Area

More than half of the surface of Iceland is uninhabitable highlands. Today we will travel across the desert highlands with several active volcanoes and incomparable scenery. We stop at Askja, an active strato volcano that erupted last time in 1961. Its biggest and most powerful eruption however took place in 1875 and subsequent devastation of pastures and farmlands resulted in a wave of emigration from Iceland to America. During the 1875 eruption two lakes were formed, a large one called Öskjuvatn, the deepest lake in Iceland, and a smaller one called Víti (meaning Hell) which is geothermal. We arrive late at Lake Mývatn/Húsavík and spend the next three nights in the area.

DAY 6 - Whale Watching - Lake Mývatn area

We start the day with a 3 hours whale watching cruise, weather permitting, from the picturesque village of Húsavík. A short drive brings us to Lake Mývatn, a unique area that features strange lava formations, attractive bays, pseudo craters and prolific bird life. We will explore the pseudo craters at Skútustaðir, the fantastic lava formations at Dimmuborgir (Dark Castles) and walk up the explosion crater Hverfell that was created in a very short but powerful volcanic eruption some 2500 years ago. We relax in Mývatns Nature Baths before we head back to our accommodation.

DAY 7 - Walking in Hljóðaklettar - Dettifoss - Ásbyrgi

We visit Hljóðaklettar with its strange formations and the magnificent and puzzling canyon Ásbyrgi, said to be a hoof print of Sleipnir the eight legged horse of the ancient god Óðinn. We walk along the west bank of the mighty Jökulsá river and not far upstream we see Europe’s most powerful waterfall Dettifoss

DAY 8 - Lake Mývatn area - Hella

We visit Goðafoss and Aldeyjarfoss waterfalls on our way south across the highland desert Sprengisandur, the largest desert in Europe. Weather permitting we will have a fantastic view across the highland interior, much of which is covered by some of the biggest ice caps in Europe and on the way we have to ford some unbridged rivers. At the end of the day we come to the village Hella where we stay for two nights.

DAY 9 - Walking in Landmannalaugar

Today we drive route “Fjallabaksleið” (the Road behind the Mountains) and to Landmannalaugar, an oasis in the bareness. There we will spend the day walking in this out-of-this-world area surrounded by colorful rhyolite mountains. In Landmannalaugar there is also a natural geothermal stream where you can enjoy a refreshing bath.

DAY 10 - Þingvellir - Reykjavík

On our way back to Reykjavík we stop at the national park Þingvellir. Besides being of great interest from a geological point of view Þingvellir has a very special place in our history. It was here where the Icelandic parliament was founded in 930, making it the oldest national legislative assembly in the world, and here it met for centuries in beautiful natural surroundings. At Þingvellir you are also standing on the Atlantic Rift, between the North American and the Eurasian continental plates. Continue to Reykjavík to end our tour.