Icelandic Northern Lights Odyssey

After breakfast meet your guide at 09:00 in your hotel reception. Start the day with a city tour of Reykjavik before heading west to Borgarfjordur also known as Saga Valley. Along the way you get a chance to climb the Grabrok volcano crater and visit Deildartunguhver, Europe’s most powerful hot spring. Stop and marvel at Hraunfossar waterfall, a series of waterfalls pouring from beneath a wide lava field and then onwards to Barnafoss. In the evening enjoy a lecture on the northern lights. Overnight near Borgarnes.

After breakfast meet your guide at 09:00 in your hotel reception. Start the day with a city tour of Reykjavik before heading west to Borgarfjordur also known as Saga Valley. Along the way you get a chance to climb the Grabrok volcano crater and visit Deildartunguhver, Europe’s most powerful hot spring. Stop and marvel at Hraunfossar waterfall, a series of waterfalls pouring from beneath a wide lava field and then onwards to Barnafoss.

In the evening enjoy a lecture on the northern lights.
Overnight near Borgarnes.

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The Snaefellsnes Peninsula juts out from Iceland’s west coast, like a long arm with a clenched fist at its tip, and is in many ways a microcosm of the whole island. Visit the fishing village of Grundarfjörður, a place with an impressive coastline and mountains, lakes and waterfalls behind the village. One of the most photographed and famous mountain in Iceland, Kirkjufell, can be seen jutting out into the bay. Visit Arnarstapi and Hellnar before experiencing the area from below, inside Vatnshellir cave. We take you 35 meters underground and about 200 meters into the lava tube under the glacier Snæfellsjökull! On the way back to Borgarnes the guide will give you some practical tips on how to photograph the Auroras. Once darkness falls head out to the hotel garden to chase the Northern Lights and to soak in the hotel’s outdoor hot tubs. Overnight near Borgarnes

The Snaefellsnes Peninsula juts out from Iceland’s west coast, like a long arm with a clenched fist at its tip, and is in many ways a microcosm of the whole island. Visit the fishing village of Grundarfjörður, a place with an impressive coastline and mountains, lakes and waterfalls behind the village. One of the most photographed and famous mountain in Iceland, Kirkjufell, can be seen jutting out into the bay. Visit Arnarstapi and Hellnar before experiencing the area from below, inside Vatnshellir cave. We take you 35 meters underground and about 200 meters into the lava tube under the glacier Snæfellsjökull! On the way back to Borgarnes the guide will give you some practical tips on how to photograph the Auroras. Once darkness falls head out to the hotel garden to chase the Northern Lights and to soak in the hotel’s outdoor hot tubs.
Overnight near Borgarnes

Icelandair Hotel Hamar

Only an hour from Reykjavik, Hotel Hamar has 54 rooms found in the beautiful western part of Iceland. With the sparkling glaciers and stretching coastline of the Snaefellsnes Peninsula within easy reach, the hotel is ideally placed surrounded by mountains and set in the middle of an elegant 18-hole golf course.

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After enjoying the scenic Hvalfjordur fjord, the first stop is at an Icelandic wool outlet store, to see what is made from all that wool. Then continue to Thingvellir National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site and part of the Golden Circle route. Continue to Geysir geothermal fields to see Strokkur erupt then stop at Restaurant Geysir to taste some freshly baked hot spring bread served with Icelandic butter, geothermally boiled eggs and herring. Then its onwards to see two-tiered waterfall, Gullfoss. In the afternoon you will find out more about the unique Icelandic horse and visit a geothermal greenhouse. Arrive at your accommodation in a rural location and enjoy and evening in anticipation of the aurora, perhaps from the hotel’s hot tubs. Overnight in Hella

After enjoying the scenic Hvalfjordur fjord, the first stop is at an Icelandic wool outlet store, to see what is made from all that wool. Then continue to Thingvellir National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site and part of the Golden Circle route. Continue to Geysir geothermal fields to see Strokkur erupt then stop at Restaurant Geysir to taste some freshly baked hot spring bread served with Icelandic butter, geothermally boiled eggs and herring.

Then its onwards to see two-tiered waterfall, Gullfoss. In the afternoon you will find out more about the unique Icelandic horse and visit a geothermal greenhouse. Arrive at your accommodation in a rural location and enjoy and evening in anticipation of the aurora, perhaps from the hotel’s hot tubs.
Overnight in Hella

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Hotel Eldhestar, Hveragerdi

This country hotel and horse ranch is located in a beautiful rural setting near the greenhouse village of Hveragerdi in southwest Iceland.

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Spend the day exploring the south coast. Stop at the Lava Centre and learn about the geology of the island and its active volcanoes. Travelling further east visit one of Iceland’s folk museums and then it is onwards to the 60 metre high Skogafoss, one of the most impressive waterfalls in the country. In the afternoon take a stroll on the black sand beach and along bird cliffs at Reynisfjara. Spend the next two nights Kirkjubaejarklaustur

Spend the day exploring the south coast. Stop at the Lava Centre and learn about the geology of the island and its active volcanoes. Travelling further east visit one of Iceland’s folk museums and then it is onwards to the 60 metre high Skogafoss, one of the most impressive waterfalls in the country. In the afternoon take a stroll on the black sand beach and along bird cliffs at Reynisfjara.
Spend the next two nights Kirkjubaejarklaustur

Hotel Klaustur

A modern hotel found in the southern Icelandic village of Kirkjubaejarklaustur.

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The day is all about glaciers, ice and icebergs. The first stop of the day is Jokulsarlon, a glacial lagoon with waters dotted with icebergs which calve from the surrounding Breidamerkurjokull glacier. On the adjacent black sand beach, aptly nicknamed ‘Diamond Beach’, are small icebergs thrown back by the ocean. In the afternoon visit the tiny turf church in Hof and spend some time at Europe’s largest national park which is home to Iceland’s highest mountains, an alpine environment, and Europe’s largest glacier. In the evening enjoy a film presentation about the northern lights. There is an opportunity to take part in an Ice Cave Tour available between November 15th and March 15th (optional and payable locally).

Depart Kirkjubaejarklaustur and head across the Eldhraun lava field to the village of Vik with its impressive black lava beaches, pounding waves and high bird cliffs. Continuing west, stop at Seljalandsfoss which plunges from the mountain at the head of Thorsmork valley. In the afternoon we get to soak in the famous Blue Lagoon before returning to Reykjavik. Overnight in Reykjavik.

Depart Kirkjubaejarklaustur and head across the Eldhraun lava field to the village of Vik with its impressive black lava beaches, pounding waves and high bird cliffs. Continuing west, stop at Seljalandsfoss which plunges from the mountain at the head of Thorsmork valley. In the afternoon we get to soak in the famous Blue Lagoon before returning to Reykjavik.
Overnight in Reykjavik.

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Transfer to Keflavik Airport for your flight home.