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An Icelandic Odyssey: Sagas, Legends and Vikings An Icelandic Odyssey: Sagas, Legends and Vikings 8 DAYS/7 NIGHTS | GROUP TRAVEL SUGGESTED ITINERARY | CAN BE CUSTOMIZED INCLUSIONS This weeklong itinerary to Iceland was crafted to showcase the best of this Nordic pearl’s Accommodations: cultural heritage. Your group will tour ancient Norse settlements, learn about Icelandic Reykjavík 3 nights, medieval Sagas, and visit amazing natural sites that have served as dazzling backdrops in Borgarnes area 1 night, many Icelandic folktales. If you are seeking a true Icelandic cultural journey; black sandy Varmahlíð area 2 beaches, spectacular fjords, geothermal pools, rich farmlands and remote Highlands are nights, Flúðir area 1 expecting you. night Meals: Continental DAY 1 • ARRIVAL IN Visiting these cultural attractions in breakfast daily, lunch REYKJAVIK Reykjavík will signal the start of your exciting and dinner as noted in quest to learn about the history of Iceland! Welcome to Iceland! Upon itinerary During the tour you will see Bessastaðir; the arrival to Keflavík Air-conditioned, official residence of the president of Iceland; International Airport, an assistant will meet private coaching the Icelandic Parliament, City Hall, the your group in the arrivals hall and Lutheran Cathedral (Dómkirkjan), the English-speaking accompany more it to the hotel in Catholic Cathedral of Christ the King, and assistants and guides Reykjavík by private coach. After checking Reykjavík’s colorful Old Harbor. in, you can begin exploring the world’s Admission tickets as most northern capital city. Please note that During the city tour of Reykjavík you will also outlined in the should you arrive before the hotel’s official visit the futuristic Perlan to take advantage itinerary check-in time (generally 3:00 pm), you are of the amazing, panoramic views it offers of HIGHLIGHTS than welcome to store baggage with the the city. Your group will then go inside of Experience landscapes reception staff. Iceland’s most iconic church: Hallgrímskirkja. unlike anywhere else The church’s design was meant to resemble This evening your group will dine on the on Earth! lava flows, and its steeple has become a true nearby island of Viðey in a historic landmark in Reykjavík’s Old Town. Another Visit the birthplace of restaurant. Located inside one of Iceland’s Viking explorer Leif th exciting inclusion on the tour is a visit to the oldest buildings (mid-18 century), the Settlement Exhibition, whose collection of Eriksson Viðey House was the first building in Viking artifacts dates back to 871 AD when Iceland to be made of stone. Surrounded Tour Thingvellir Reykjavík was first settled by Vikings from by beautiful landscapes, today National Park, a Norway. Your last stop today will be at the Viðeyjarstofa serves traditional, culinary UNESCO World Culture House to see its impressive Heritage Site specialties of Iceland. collection of Icelandic works of literature, Visit the Icelandic Saga DAY 2 • REYKJAVIK including some of the medieval, calfskin Centre in Hvolsvöllur CITY SIGHTSEEING manuscripts of the Icelandic Sagas. Explore the After breakfast in the hotel, The tour will finish up back at the hotel. geothermal a local guide will lead your Enjoy an evening at leisure in Reykjavík. Haukadalur Valley, group on a sightseeing tour of Reykjavík by home to the Great private coach. Geysir DAY 3 • ÞINGVELLIR – the Icelandic Settlement Center in KALDIDALUR – Borgarnes, which you will visit before BORGARFJÖRÐUR arriving to the hotel in Borgarnes. After breakfast and check- After check-in and time to freshen up, your out, your group will travel east by private group will dine in Borgarnes. coach to Mosfellsdalur to visit Gljúfrasteinn, DAY 4 • VARMAHLÍÐ the home of Icelandic writer Halldór Laxness. Laxness, who won the Nobel Prize for After breakfast and check- Literature in 1955, resided here for more out, your group will board than fifty years, and today his home is a state its private coach and drive museum. north past fertile farmlands and along the picturesque Breiðafjörður Bay to the Viking Your group will then travel to a true Icelandic -era home at Eiriksstadir, located on West treasure: Thingvellir National Park. This Iceland’s scenic coast. This area is UNESCO World Heritage Site is an absolute incredibly important in Nordic history as must-do on a vacation to Iceland for several many Viking explorers set out west from reasons. It is home to the beautiful Þingvellir this coast with the aim of discovering new Lake, the largest natural lake in the country. and distant lands. The farm of Erik the Red, It is also the site of the incredible Almannagjá who founded the first permanent fault, and visitors can actually walk along the settlement in Greenland, was located in Mid-Atlantic ridge, where the North Eiriksstadir, which was also the birthplace American and Eurasian tectonic plates meet. of his son, Leif Eriksson, the Viking explorer Lastly Þingvellir National Park is home to the who landed in North America almost 500 Althing (the Icelandic Parliament); having years before Christopher Columbus. While been founded in 930 AD, it is one of the in Eiriksstadir your group will learn about oldest national legislative assemblies in the how the Vikings lived 1000 years ago in a world. After experiencing the immense recreated, turf-covered Viking longhouse. natural beauty of this historic site, journey You will also visit the nearby Leifssafn past the edges of the Icelandic Highlands to Museum, which houses a Vinland exhibit the verdant valley of Borgarfjörður. on Leif Eriksson’s explorations, to see more Your group will stop at the breathtaking fascinating artifacts from the Viking Age. Hraunfossar and Barnafoss waterfalls and This enchanting, magical Dalabyggð region then proceed to the village of Reykholt. This is also highly connected to Icelandic area is of much importance to those folklore. Countless tales of elves, ghosts interested in Viking history and the Icelandic and sorcerers inhabit the region, which has sagas. Snorri Sturluson, an Icelandic served as the setting in some of the ancient politician and medieval Saga author who was Icelandic Sagas. Today your group will visit born in 1179, hailed from Reykholt, and the “elf colony” found on the rocky hill of today your group will visit interesting Tungustapi. Also featured on today’s historical sites connected to Reykholt’s era of sightseeing tour is the remarkable rock Viking settlement in Iceland. You will also formation of Hvítserkur, which is located on see the ancient farm of Borg á Mýrum, which the picturesque Vatnsnes Peninsula. While was the birthplace of Egill Skallagrímsson. enjoying the calmness, you may happen to Arguably Iceland’s most famous Viking poet, spot a seal or two, which frequently inhabit Skallagrímsson served as the protagonist in the area. Before arriving to the hotel in the the Egils saga. Your group will have the village of Varmahlíð, your group will stop opportunity to learn more about his life at and visit the small church of Þingeyri, which rush”), the town was prosperous and quite is located on the site of the first monastery populated. As the herring population established in Iceland; back in the early decreased, so did Siglufjörður’s. Today 12th century. your group will visit the very interesting Herring Industry Museum, which houses After checking in and having time to tools of a bygone era that have been kept freshen up, your group will dine this in perfect working order. evening in Varmahlíð. The tour will finish up back at the hotel. DAY 5 • VARMAHLÍÐ – After time to fresh up, your group will dine SAUÐÁRKRÓKUR – in Varmahlíð. HÓLAR - SIGLUFJÖRÐUR DAY 6 • KJÖLUR – After breakfast in the hotel, GEYSIR – GULLFOSS – today’s sightseeing will commence with SKÁLHOLT visits to the Glaumbær Regional History Museum and to the historic Víðimýrarkirkja After breakfast and check- Church; an excellent representation of out, your group will board its private coach Icelandic architecture. Your group will then and take the Kjölur road south through drive east to the small community of Hólar, Iceland’s legendary Highlands. If you’re which has always been an important center looking to escape the chaos and stress of of learning in Iceland. During the medieval today’s world, this would be a good place era, Hólar was also important politically. to do it! Most of Iceland’s rugged interior While there your group will visit Hólar’s is pure wilderness. You’re not likely to see archeological site as well as its pretty, anyone, so just sit back and enjoy the wooden church. scenery. Interestingly, this route is ancient; it’s even mentioned in the Icelandic Sagas. You will then drive north along the coast to the historic trading port of Hofsós, which During the drive you will stop to see the will give you unbeatable views of the hot springs and geothermal pools of nearby Isle of Drangey, whose steep Hveravellir. The drive will also take your volcanic cliffs rise dramatically (almost 500 group to the Haukadalur Valley, an feet) from the waters of the Skagafjörður otherworldly geothermal area that is home fjord below. According to the Icelandic to boiling mud pools and erupting hot sagas, Drangey is where the great Icelandic springs including the Great Geysir and the outlaw, Grettir the Strong, met his end in Strokkur geyser (which spouts 98 feet every the 11th century. The Icelandic Emigration 10 minutes). Iceland’s beautiful Gullfoss Center, which you will visit, was created to waterfall is located nearby, which your shed light on the plight of Icelanders who group will also stop to see. emigrated to North America. Before arriving to the hotel in the village of Afterwards continue traveling north to Flúðir, your group will visit the historical Siglufjörður, a remote fishing village that site of Skálholt. Much like Hólar, Skálholt sits snugly between mountain and fjord was an important religious and cultural (and not far from the Arctic Circle).
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