ALKI TOURS PRESENTS Iceland-Glacier Walks and Northern Lights

TOUR PRICE: $1699.00 PER PERSON/DO Single Supplement starting at: $299 February 6th-11th, 2016/ 6 Days Tour includes all air taxes & fees and air fuel surcharges This is how your trip will unfold…..

TRIP REGISTRATION February 6th, 2016: Seattle to beginning to the To register, contact Iceland present day. We Alki Tours at (206)935-6848 The fun begins as you board your pass or 1(800)895-2554 direct flight on Iceland Air, bound for Hallgrimskirkja- You may also register on our the land of Ice and Fire. During your Church and enjoy web site at night flight be sure to check the a photo stop at www.alkitours.com window for Northern lights in the sky. Höfði house, A deposit of $500.00 per person Meals: meals on own where the Reagan/ is due within 14 days of booking Gorbachev summit to confirm your reservation. Full meeting took place payment is due 90 days prior to the trip’s departure. in 1986. We continue to district of the University, Please make checks payable to: the Nordic house and National Alki Tours, 6417A Fauntleroy Museum. From the City Hall we take Way SW, Seattle WA 98136 a walk through the city center to the street where the first settler built his house. We go to an exhibition Follow us on Facebook showing us the change of Reykjavík February 7th, 2016: Reykjavik City during the last 200 years. Next to the Tour Parliament and Lutheran cathedral we Upon arrival, We will take a city tour pass the sculpture of Skúli of Reykjavik Weaving our ways Magnússon, the founder of Reykjavík through narrow alleys framed with old and Jón Sigurðsson, our real timber houses, we learn about the life independence hero. We then head of the Icelandic capital from its very towards the city pond to enjoy different types of birds, geese, and February 8th, 2016: Sighteeing whooper swans and ducks mallards. Over a scenic route we reach Þingvellir Then we return to the city hall looking (Thingvellir) National Park and at a topographical map of Iceland, if it UNESCO World Heritage Site. We is out on display. Now we drive to the stroll around the country’s most sacred harbour where we find a large fleet of site, home of the oldest existing whale watching and fishing boats in all parliament in the world, the Alþingi, and sizes. We drive past the Catholic major events in our history. Thingvellir Church and enjoy then the panoramic is a place of fascinating natural beauty, one of the most geologically spectacular, set on a vast plain flanked by large fissures, right on Iceland’s largest lake, Thingvallavatn. The Great Atlantic rift Its Included: is clearly visible; a rift that is slowly pulling Iceland apart along tectonic  At home pick up in the plates and you can literally walk greater Seattle area between the American and Eurasian  Roundtrip airfare from continental plates. We drive to the Seattle to Iceland mighty Gullfoss (the Golden Waterfall),  All Transfers view over Reykjavik, the fjord and perhaps the most beautiful in the  Luggage handling at mountains from the balcony at the hotels Pearl. We head to the outskirts of Reykjavík with a different view over  5 Nights hotel Breiðholt and the capital city. Further accommodations on we reach  Meals: 4 Breakfast the  Sightseeing per itinerary geothermal  Fully escorted and outdoor narrated so you won’t swimming miss a thing pool in Laugardalur to learn what Icelanders are doing with the country. We walk around Gullfoss Falls, warm water from the hot springs. This where the river Hvitá tumbles 32 meters is the recreational area of the city, with (105 ft) in a double cascade. When the Cancellation Policy most sport facilities, the botanical sun is shining, you’re likely to see a garden, the farm animal zoo and rainbow. After an optional lunch stop More than 120 days prior to the Family Park. Last but not least we we explore the geothermal active valley trips departure: of Haukadalur which contains the Full Refund drive past the sculpture museum and 120-61 days prior to the trips de- geysers Geysir and Strokkur. This parture: otherworldly hot spring area is covered 75% Refund with multicoloured pools of water and 60-31 days prior to departure: mud. Strokkur, the Great Geysir’s little 25% refund brother, is spouting to a height of about 30 days or few prior to departure No Refund 25 metres (82 ft) and erupts at about 5-7

TRAVEL INSURANCE Information regarding a variety of travel insurance policies are avail- able upon request. We recommend that sufficient insurance be pur- garden of Ásmundur Sveinsson. before chased to cover the possibility of lost heading to you hotel for the next 5 or damaged baggage, accidents or nights. illness. Meals: On Own minute intervals. Then we drive on to February 9th, 2016: Free Day: beautifully sited village of Vík í Skálholt, the site of an ancient Enjoy a free day to explore: Mýrdal, the southernmost village in bishopric, and for centuries Iceland’s Optional Tour: $135 Iceland. After lunch break we reach main cultural centre. We pass the SOUTH SHORE ADVENTURE the volcanic black sandy beach of greenhouse town of Hveragerði and We drive over a lava plateau and Reynisfjara that is famous for its continue over the mountain pass through the Threngsli pass, Hellisheiði, an area with large lava descending onto the southern fields and steaming valleys. Passing coastal lowlands and crossing the geothermal power station Ölfusá, Iceland’s most voluminous Hellisheiðarvirkjun we learn how river. Eyrarbakki is an attractive and picturesque coastal village with many old wooden houses. The route passes through some of the prettiest countryside in Iceland with fields, farms and villages towards the Eyjafjalla and bird species including puffins. This Mýrdalsjökull glaciers in South location offers impressive rock Iceland. We reach Seljalandsfoss, a formations and caves, spectacular graceful ribbon-like waterfall, high surf of the North Atlantic and which drops from an overhanging one of the worlds most beautiful Icelanders use the energy from the black lava beach. From Reynisfjara earth, so called green energy, for heating their homes. Tonight we will take a northern lights tour. We drive in the twilight chasing the Aurora Borealis. This is a mystery- filled tour. The destination is not decided in advance, since we will try to find the best place away from the city lights. We travel into the wilderness outside Reykjavík to search for the northern lights. On a you can enjoy stunning views of lava cliff. If you step carefully, you picturesque Dyrhólaey promontory, can walk behind it, but be prepared a 120m spur of rock and cut into a to get wet. We continue to the natural arch by Atlantic breakers, impressive Skógafoss waterfall, that stands in water deep enough to that’s more than 60m high (197 ft) allow boats to pass through. Meals: Breakfast

February 10th, 2016: Free Day Optional tour: $90 BORGARFJÖRÐUR VALLEY clear night and with a little luck we We drive along the shores of the can see the lights swirl around in scenic Hvalfjörður Fjord, stopping at dramatic shapes across the night sky the traditional and famous wool – truly an amazing sight. This tour is factory of Álafoss for a little factory subject to weather conditions. We outlet shopping offering best reserve the right to reschedule if the Icelandic woollen products and circumstances are not favourable. and belongs to the largest different handicrafts of local artists. Sightings of the Northern Lights waterfalls in Iceland. Then on to We are passing the old extinct cannot be guaranteed. the ice-wall of Sólheimajökull, whaling station before we reach the Meals: Breakfast where we can walk up to the peaceful farming district and valley glacier, before we reach the of Borgarfjörður, the setting of Egil’s two exhibitions you learn the Saga Saga, framed by mountains and glaciers of The Settlement of Iceland and that are backdrops to many of the best Iceland´s most famous Viking and salmon rivers in Iceland. We explore a first poet Egill Skallagrimsson. Re- multitude of natural springs under a turn to Reykjavik via the birch covered lava field, which creates Hvalfjörður fjord tunnel. Tonight a waterfall of hundreds of meters wide, you may wish to take another op- the magnificent Hraunfossar (Lava tional tour to see the northern lights, Falls), seemingly appearing out of no- weather permitting Meals: Breakfast

February 11th, 2016: Iceland to Seattle: PUFFINS In the morning after breakfast, We are off to the Reykjanes peninsula and the Blue Lagoon which is 100% powered by Iceland’s clean geother- where across the bank. A 10 minutes walk up the river is the Barnafoss (Children’s Fall), which has carved out

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mal energy. Enjoy bathing and relax- ing in Blue Lagoon geothermal sea- water, known for its positive effects on the skin.. After a relaxing soak we will transfer to the airport for strange figures from the rock. We con- your return flight back to Seattle. tinue to historic Reykholt, where Snorri Upon arrival, airport shuttle will take Sturluson lived, a brilliant 13th-century you back to your Seattle area home. writer/scholar. Next stop is the Deildar- Welcome home tunguhver, one of the world’s biggest Meals: Breakfast hot springs. We go to Grábrók volcano, a 3000 years old crater surrounded by a

nicely moss covered lava field – possi- ble to walk up to the rim of the crater (20 min) for a splendid view over the lava field and its region. There is the possibility to stop at the Icelandic Set- tlement centre in Borgarnes where in