ITINIRARY ANY TIME, 2019 SOUTH EIGHT DAYS ALONG THE COAST

During the eight days we visit some of the most spectacular places in Iceland.

We look forward to welcoming you on our trip together and shall be doing our utmost to make your experience an enjoyable one. Our itinerary is on the following pages. DAY ONE Reykjavik

Hotel: Distance travelled: 52 km Lunch: Reykjavík Dinner: Keflavík Time of arrival to hotel: Blue Lagoon

Arriving in KEF Airport with flight no. ___ at ____

Pick-up from Keflavik International Airport and After lunch, we take a City tour where I will we drive through the lava of the Reykjanes show you Reykjavik and the surroundings. Peninsula to Reykjavik. We´ll visit the Northern Lights Center and The Viking Ship museum opens at 7:00, and the Settlement Exhibition. we’ll go there if you’re not too tired after the We drive towards the Blue lagoon where you flight. have a booking at ______After checking in to the hotel you can rest and relax until lunch time.

Northern Lights Center

Viking Ship museum

Settlement Exhibition

Blue Lagoon DAY TWO West Coast

Hotel: Reykholt Húsafell Borgarnes Into The Distance travelled: 249 km Glacier Lunch: Húsafell Reykjavík Dinner: Time of arrival to hotel: 5 PM

Today we travel to the West side of the island, Deildartunguhver, and Reykholt, the home of to Húsafell and from there to Langjökull Snorri Sturluson, who wrote Snorra-Edda, is on glacier where we´ll enter a tunnel into the our way. glacier. We´ll have dinner in Borgarnes town or at the We will visit the volcanic cave Víðgelmir, hotel, depending on how tired we are after the close to the glacier, we will pass the most day. powerful geothermal power plant in Europe,

Inside the Víðgelmir volcanic cave

Inside the glacier

Hraunfossar waterfalls on the way DAY TRHEE The Golden Circle Hotel: Húsafell Distance travelled: 270 km Geysir Lunch: Geysir Thingvellir Dinner: Hotel Rangá Flúðir Time of arrival to hotel: 6 Hotel Rangá PM

This is the day of the so-called Golden Cir- We will visit Geysir, ´the one and only´, and cle. We now travel to the south coast and we you´ll see its little brother, Strokkur, erupt. start at Thingvellir National Park. We drive There we´ll have lunch. From Geysir we head through Mosfellsdalur valley and pass by the for the Gullfoss waterfall where it plunges into house of Halldór Laxness, the Nobel Prize the amazing Hvitá canyon and river. laureate for literature from 1955. On the way from Gullfoss we pass by Flúðir We continue to Thingvellir National Park. The to visit a geothermal pool, the old public swim- Park is the sacred place of Iceland: Parlia- ming pool of the municipality. Now they call it ment was established here in the year 930, The Secret Lagoon. From the “secret lagoon” the Icelanders celebrated its 1000 anniversary and after a relaxing time in the hot tubs we there in 1930 and again in 1944 when inde- drive to our hotel. pendence was declared.

Gullfoss

Thingvellir National Park

Geysir and Strokkur

Flúðir Secret Lagoon DAY FOUR Þórsmörk Thorsmork Hotel: Time of departure: 10 AM Distance travelled: 115 km Lunch: Prepared by us at Básar Dinner: Hotel Rangá Thórsmörk Time of arrival to hotel: 6 PM

Today we will have a different vehicle, a From Skaffjörðsskáli to Husadalur where super-jeep, and head away from the main Valdivar will be waiting for us. highway towards the highlands, to the beautiful surroundings of Thórsmörk. We will cross some rivers on the way, enter the Stakkholtsgjá canyon on foot and continue to Básar, where we will have lunch. You will have an easy hike in the neighbourhood with our driver and guide Mr. Valdimar Flygenring while Kjartan prepares lunch. We´ll cross the Krossá river if there is not too much water volume, and have a nice walk Valdimar Flygenring, guide and super jeep driver

Stakkholtsgjá Canyon

Básar DAY FIVE The Waterfalls and Black beach Hotel: Time of departure: 10 AM Distance travelled: 103 km Lunch: Dinner: Hotel Rangá Skógafoss Time of return to hotel: 5 PM Reynisfjara

Today we head to the east and stop by two see some natural caves on the way, some of beautiful waterfalls, Seljalandsfoss and which the farmers still use today. We will have Skógafoss. Between the two waterfalls we lunch at Skógafoss and continue from there to will stop at Thorvaldseyri farm which suffered the Reynisfjara Black Beach. From Reynis- from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruption in fjara we drive to our Icelandair Hotel in Vík. 2010 (the one that disturbed flight traffic in Eu- There is both glacier walk and snowmobile rope). At the visitor centre, we’ll watch a short tour on the agenda today, the glacier walk at documentary about the eruption and the family 11 am and the snowmobile at 3 pm. Between on the farm. we´ll have lunch at Skogafoss Bistro. We continue towards the Skógafoss water- fall (“foss” in Icelandic means waterfall) and

Snowmobile tour on the glacier

Skógafoss waterfall

Seljalandsfoss waterfall

Reynisfjara Black Beach DAY SIX Skaftafell & Jökulsárlón Hotel: Time of departure: 8 AM Distance travelled: 222 km Skaftafell Jökulsárlón Lunch: Eldhraun : Dinner Icelandair Time of arrival to hotel: 5-6 PM Hotel Vík

We will drive through the vast lava field from We drive through the Vatnajökull National the eruption that started in 1783, called Park on our way to the Jökulsárlón Glacial Eldhraun (e. fire lava). The eruption from the Lagoon where we´ll spend some time walk- volcano Laki, a 25-km long crack caused a ing, both around the lagoon and on the beach where the icebergs from the lagoon are melt- major catastrophe, leading to the death of ing. We may even be lucky enough to spot 75% of all domestic animals and 20% of the some seals. population. The ashes from the eruption would We arrive at the Glacier lagoon and have fall in Europe causing major problems for scheduled boat tour on the lagoon at 3:10 pm. agriculture and resulting in widespread crop We then head to our accommodation. failures.

Skaftafell in Vatnajökull National Park Jökulsárlón Lagoon

Room at Icelandair Hotel Vík

The Eldhraun Lava DAY SEVEN Skaftafell, Fjarðárgljúfur Hotel: Time of departure: 8 AM Fosshótel Distance travelled: 361 km Svartifoss Glacier Lagoon Lunch: Fjaðrárgljúfur Dinner: Kjartan’s farm Time of arrival to hotel: 7 PM

We return to the Vatnajökull National Park, We continue our way back to Reykjavík and but now we will leave the car and hike to the make a stop in Fjaðrárgljúfur canyon. The Svartifoss waterfall (1-2 hours). Svartifoss (e. river Fjaðrá runs through it. Fjaðrárgljúfur Black Falls) is located in Skaftafell in Vatna- canyon was created through progressive jökull National Park, and is one of the most erosion by flowing water from glaciers through beautiful sights in the park. It is surrounded the rocks over a long period of time, some say by dark lava columns, which gave rise to its 9000 years ago. name. We stop on Kjartan´s farm to have a taste of We will be back in Reykjavik around 7 pm. local trout.

Fjaðrárgljúfur

Svartifoss waterfall

Geysir and Strokkur

Flúðir Secret Lagoon DAY EIGHT Blue Lagoon Departure Hotel: Time of departure: 6 AM Distance travelled: 52 km Reykjavík KEF Airport Blue Lagoon

This day depends on the time of your flight. If you have an afternoon flight then it is ideal to visit the Blue lagoon geothermal bath, it is located between Reykjavik and the Keflavik International Airport.

Blue Lagoon Enjoy your stay in Iceland!