Around Iceland in 8 days

Enjoy the Magnificent Icelandic Nature

We organize all kinds of self drive tours ... just tell us your wishes and we will put together your ideal self drive tour. We can plan a self drive tour where you explore Iceland’s rich natural treasures, including national parks, beautiful waterfalls, striking glaciers, magnificent volcanoes and hot springs.

Following you have a description of a tour around Iceland with the duration of 8 days and 7 nights. But of course if you want a longer or shorter trip it is easy to change the tour plan according to your wishes.

You will travel around most of Iceland, drive the mountain road Kjolur and see all of the highlights in only eight days. You will have an eventful schedule and every day is going to be amazing. Sailing on glacial lagoons, bathing in geothermal water in the highlands of Iceland, whale watching, waterfalls, glaciers, northern lights during winter time and many more natural wonders.
As in all of our organized self drive tours, at arrival you will receive a detailed itinerary as well as a map. We also offer a GPS navigation system for rent.

When we have all relevant information from you and when the tour plan is ready according to your wishes we send you an offer. We need information such as: When you want to take the tour, how many people are travelling, for how many days do you want the tour to last, what kind of accommodation suits you, what kind of activity would you want us to include, etc.

We can take care of your visit to Iceland from beginning to end.

ITINERARY

Day 1

You take the fly bus to your accommodation place in Reykjavik where you can relax after your flight. A free day in Reykjavik according to your choise, like a walk to the centrum, a visit to one of our geothermal swimming pools or looking around in the city.

Day 2

You get your good 4WD car at your hotel in Reykjavik, the vouchers for all your accommodation, a travel guide book, a description of your tour and everything else you need for your tour. Then you drive to Selfoss town and to the villages Hella and Hvolsvollur where you can visit a very interesting museum, the Saga Museum.

You drive to Eyjafjallajokull central volcano where the eruption was in April and May 2010. You take a stop at Seljalandsfoss waterfall where you can walk behind the waterfall and furter east you get to the magnificent Skogafoss waterfall where you can visit the folk museum in Skogar. You drive to Solheimajokull glacier where you can take a short glacier hike on crampons with a guide. Next stop is at the black beach Reynisfjara where you can see sea caves and the waves coming in from the south.

You stop at the village Vik and from there you drive over Myrdalssandur where you will see up to the central volcano Katla which is under the ice-cap of Myrdalsjokull glacier.
East of Myrdalssandur you'll find Eldgjarhraun lava field, which happens to be the Earth’s largest amount of lava to flow from a single eruption in historic time. The lava field was formed in one massive eruption in the year 934 in the volcanic rift of Eldgja which is almost 60 kilometers long. The lava field’s size is somewhere between 18-19 cubic kilometers.

East of Eldgjahraun lava field and the glacier river of Kudafljot, you will find the historic lava field of Skaftareldahraun which was formed in a huge eruption in the Lakagigar crater-row. The eruption started June 8th 1783 and lasted until February 7th 1784. A lot of farms and their farming areas were destroyed in the aftermath of the eruption because of ash-fall and most of the livestock died subsequently. The lava field spreads over an area of 656 sq. kilometers and contains 14 cubic kilometers.
You stop at the village Kirkjubaejarklaustur village where you will accommodate.

Day 3

You stop at Kirkjugolf, Foss a Sidu, (waterfall) Dverghamrar and Nupsstadur. You drive over Skeidararsandur to Skaftafell national park where you can spend some time seeing the Svartifoss waterfall, take short hikes or longer like to Skaftafellsjokull glacier, or to Svinafellsjokull glacier; then you drive to Jokulsarlon glacier lagoon, where boat tours are offered during the summer.
From Jokulsarlon glacier lagoon you drive to village Hofn and on the way there are good possibilities of a beautiful view up to many outlet glaciers of Vatnajokull.
From Hofn in Hornafjordur you drive to the village Djupivogur where you will accommodate.

Day 4

From Djupivogur and Berufjordur you drive the highland road Oxi, to the town of Egilsstadir and around the lake Lagarfljot where there are waterfalls and many nice places to visit. From Egilsstadir you drive to Myvatn where you look around. This area offers a lot to see and do.

Evening bath in Jardbodin.
Accommodation is offered at Myvatn.

Day 5

From Myvatn you drive to the geothermal area at Hverarond and Krafla and then to Iceland’s major waterfalls in Jokulsargljufur national park, Dettifoss, Hafragilsfoss, Rettarfoss, Vigabjargsfoss, Holmatungur, Hljodaklettar, Asbyrgi and from Asbyrgi you drive to Husavik for accommodation.

Day 6

From Husavik you drive through Adaldalur and Reykjadalur valley to Godafoss waterfall and to Akureyri (the biggest town in north Iceland) and then to Skagafjordur for accommodation.

Day 7

You drive the highland Road Kjolur (F35) to south Iceland, a fantastic highland road between the glaciers. You stop here and there, for example at Hveravellir which is one of the most beautiful hot spring areas in Iceland. From there you drive to Hvitarvatn lake. And from there to Gullfoss (the golden waterfall) and Geysir geothermal field where we have hundreds of hot springs, Great Geysir that gave name to all other geysers in the world and Strokkur that is erupting every 5 minutes or so.
From Geysir Geothermal field you drive to Thingvellir national park. There you will spend some hours before driving to Reykjavik.
Accommodation is offered in Reykjavik.

Day 8

You drive to the Blue lagoon where you relax for some hours. Then you drive to Keflavik International airport in time for your flight back home after a wonderful time in Iceland. There you drop of the car.

This tour is a long one, a lot to see, long days, action from morning to evening.

Details:

When we have all relevant information from you we re-do the tour-plan according to your wishes and send you an offer.

We need information about:

When?

How many people?

How many days?

What kind of accommodation suits you?

What kind of activity would you want us to include in the offer?

Before we finish the tour plan and the final offer we need the timing of the arrival and departure. We can take care of your visit to Iceland from beginning to end.

Operation:
All year, every year.
During wintertime we need to skip Kjolur road and Hveravellir area because of snow, and take a tour to West Iceland instead.

Included:
Good 4WD rental car with unlimited mileage
Accommodation with breakfast
The book: Iceland Road Atlas, a detailed road map (1:600:000) and a detailed itinerary.

Not included:
Gasoline
Meals
International flights

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