REYKJAVIK SIGHTSEEING

Price per person £35

An ideal orientation to the capital including the little fishing village of Hafnarfjorour. Visit the cosmic looking Perlan nestling on a hill overlooking the city; continue to Hafnarfjorour via the Presidential Residence and the fish market; then to Hotoi, the Lutheran Cathedral and Hallgrim's Church. Hotel pick-up at 8.30 am for 2.5 hours.

CENTRE OF THE EARTH

Price per person £115

A full day excursion to the Snæfellsnes Peninsula and the ice–filled, cone shaped crater of the Snæfellsjökull volcano from where Jules Verne’s adventure ‘Journey to the centre of the earth’ is said to have started! Mon/Wed/Fri hotel pick-up at 7.30 am for 10/11 hours. (Jun-Aug)

GOLDEN CIRCLE CLASSIC

Price per person £66

Available all year round and an all-day scenic extravaganza that bombards the senses. First stop the landscapes south of Lake Pingvallavatn before the national park Pingvellir. From there continue to Gullfoss, the Golden Waterfall, with its foaming, thundering waters invariably over-arched with a rainbow. Continue to the Geysir area with its spouting water geysers and bubbling mud pots with time for lunch (not included). Return to Reykjavik via the cathedral at Skalholt, the extraordinary crater Kerid and the greenhouse community Hveragerdi. Daily all year. Hotel pick-up at 8am for 9 hours.

BLUE LAGOON & REYKJANES PENINSULA

Price per person £48

The ideal way to spend your last day in Iceland: Visit Grindavik Harbour and the Reykjanes Peninsula's bird cliffs with their colonies of gannets and puffins and foam seas crashing on the cliff face. Continue to the Blue Lagoon with turquoise blue water lying amongst black lava rocks: not only fun but also good for you since there is all sorts of scientific evidence the Lagoon's mineral salts help you relax and its white silica mud nourishes and softens the skin. Continue on to Keflavik Airport. Hotel pick-up at 8.30 am for 6 hours. Entrance to the Blue Lagoon payable locally. May 15 - Sep 15.

BLUE LAGOON AND KEFLAVIK TRANSFER

Price per person £30

If you want some time for last minute shopping this is a short form of our other Blue Lagoon excursion leaving out the Reykjanes Peninsula, so you need not check out of your hotel until midmorning. An ideal way to make the most of your last few hours in Reykjavik. Hotel pick-up at 10.30am leaving the Lagoon at 2 pm for your flight back to the UK. Entrance to the Blue Lagoon not included.

WHALE SPOTTING

Price per person £45

A 3 to 3.5 hour boat excursion leaving from Reykjavik Harbour outside of which you have a good chance of spotting Minke Whales and occasionally Humpback and Orca along with white beaked dolphins and harbour porpoise. Invariably you will also be overflown by puffins, fulmars and gannets. Hotel quayside transfers are included and whale sightings of ninety percent plus have been recorded. Hotel pick-up at 8.15 and 12.15, May-Sep as well as 16.15 (Jun-Aug).

THE SNAFELLSNES PENINSULA & GLACIER

Price per person £115

A full day excursion along the Snaefellsnes peninsula to the tiny village of Olafsvik at its tip with its view of the glacier dubbed the ‘eternal pyramid of snow’ before stopping at Arnastapi with its surreal coastal formations where you can spend time hiking along the shoreline with the prolific birdlife and seals offshore. The tour continues to the National Park which with its Green Globe accreditation and eclectic mix of lava fields, volcanic craters, dormant volcano and glacier now often referred to as ‘Iceland in a Nutshell’. Mon/Wed/Fri hotel pickup at 7.30 for 10/11 hours (June-Aug)

PORSMORK THE GLACIER VALLEY 

Price per person £100

A full day excursion to Porsmork, a valley shielded on three sides by glaciers and mountains, as well as being surrounded by ice caps and glacier rivers. Beginning with a drive across the Hellisheidi plateau and a visit to Hvolsvollur, the tour stops at Seljalandsfoss waterfall where you can take a ‘walk behind the scenery’, before continuing to Stakkholtsgja Gorge. Remote and inaccessible for much of the year, Porsmork is an extraordinary habitat to over 170 plant species nestled in a setting of low birch trees. Tues/Fri/Sun hotel pick-up at 8.00 am for 10 hours and Tue from May 2nd to Sept 18th.

LANDMANNALAUGAR

Price per person £110

Sometimes known as the 'pearl of the central highlands', Landmannalaugar is a landscape of sweeping mountains dotted with hot and cold springs and a bathe in one of them is a highlight of the day. Millennia of volcanic activity have left mountains of varying colours and hues which change throughout the day as the sun arcs above them. The route there is through the exquisitely beautiful Pjorsardalur Valley with a stop at Hjalparfoss Waterfall along the way and the return takes in Mount Hekla, Iceland's most active volcano believed to be the gateway to Hell. Mon/Wed/Sat hotel pick-up at 8 am for 10 hours. (19 June - 11 Sep)