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HOLIDAYS TO ICELAND
MOUNTAIN HIGHLIGHTS
12 days from £2095 pp
Catch this tour while you can . The two overland routes linking North and South Iceland through the vast uninhabited highlands are only briefly open from the end of June to the middle of August. Glaciers to the left of you, glaciers to the right of you; geothermal rumblings; foaming melt water rivers and mountain peaks stretching as far as the eye can see and beyond. Our people who take you there are the direct descendants of Guomundur Jonasson famed throughout Iceland for rescuing the crew of an aircraft that crashed on Vatnajokull and other deeds of derring do, so you are in good hands.
DAY 1 UK – REYKJAVÍK Scheduled Icelandair flight to Reykjavík. Transfer on arrival to and overnight at Borgartún Guesthouse.
DAY 2 REYKJAVÍK – ÞINGVELLIR Meet your guide and travel east to Þingvellir National Park, the dramatically fissured plain where the great rift at Almannagja forms the Oxara river's watercourse feeding into Þingvallavatn. Highlights: Lake Þingvallavatn: Viking Parliament. Overnight in the ¡Þingvellir area.
DAY 3 GULLFOSS – GEYSIR – SKAGAFJÖRUR After visiting the Geysir area, watching Stokkur spout up to 25m high and standing in awe of Gullfoss' curtain fall; take the Kjokur route north though the valley between Langjokull and Hofsjokull. Overnight in the Skagafjörur area for two nights.
DAY 4 WALKING IN SKAGAFJÖRUR VALLEY EXCURSION Highlights: Icelandic horse show at Skagafjörur: Mælifell mountain walk. Activity option: White water rafting.
DAY 5 SKAGAFJÖRUR – EYJAFJÖRUR Highlights: Glaumbær Turf Farm/Folk Museum: Valley walk to Hraunsvatn: Akureyri: Eyjafjörur. Overnight in the Eyjafjörur area.
DAY 6 EYJAFJÖRUR – MVATN Highlights: Húsavík: Whale spotting tour: Námaskar: Krafla. Overnight in the Mvatn area for three nights.
DAY 7 HLJÓAKLETTAR – DETTIFOSS – ÁSBYRGI EXCURSION Touch the Nordic Gods in the lush, horseshoe shaped Asbyrgi canyon which early settlers believed was created by Odin's horse before stopping at Dettifoss whose glacial grey waters thunder down a canyon, above which there is invariably a double rainbow.
DAY 8 LAKE MVATN EXCURSION Highlights: Lake Mvatn: Dimmuborgir: Hverfjall.
DAY 9 LAKE MVATN - HELLA Highlights: Vatnajökull: Hofsjökull. Overnight in the Hella area for two nights.
DAY 10 LANDMANNALAUGAR EXCURSION Through the exquisitely coloured landscape of Landmannalaugar with its multi hued rhyolite peaks, meandering lava flows, streams and balmy lakes.
DAY 11 PÓRSMÖRK EXCURSION – REKJAVÍK Explore Pórsmörk where melt water streams converge in the Malkarflot river which empties black volcanic sand on the beaches by Skogar and whose valley floor is covered with dwarf birch. Overnight at Borgartún Guesthouse.
DAY 12: REYKJAVÍK – UK Tranfer to airport. Scheduled Icelandair flight to UK.
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