Name: Get ready to meet Snaefellsnes peninsula of West Iceland in 2 days tour
SKU: 27825
Price: 10 USD
Availability: InStock

Duration: 2 days

Activity Level: Moderate

Experience: Adventure, Backpacker, Ecotourism, Family, Nature

Language: English

Permis photo inclus

Visite en transports en commun

Excursion en bateau sur le canal incluse

Billets de train inclus

Convient aux petits enfants

Visite accessible en fauteuil roulant

Billet musée inclus

Collation légère incluse

Déjeuner inclus

Transport inclus

Visite à pied

Overview

Meet Snaefellsnes peninsula in West Iseland, the land full of beautiful lanscapes ans views. Spend your 2 days of winter by seeing the northern lights, exploring the Iceland's caves and making lots of beautiful photos to remember the experience.

What's included

Pick-up and drop-off
English-speaking guide
Accomodation for 1 night
Hotel breakfast

Food and drinks (except breakfast)
Personal expenses

Take warm waterproof comfortable clothes
Comfortable hiking shoes

Highlights

Arnarstapi

Arnarstapi or Stapi is a small fishing village at the foot of Mt. Stapafell between Hellnar village and Breiðavík farms on the southern side of Snæfellsnes, Iceland.

Barnafossar

Barnafoss is also known as Bjarnafoss, which was its previous name. Barnafoss is near Hraunfossar which burst out of Hallmundarhraun which is a great lava plain. Barnafoss is a waterfall in Western Iceland, about 100 kilometres from Reykjavík. Barnafoss is on the river Hvítá in Borgarfjörður.

Borgarnes

Borgarnes is a town located on a peninsula at the shore of Borgarfjörður in Iceland and is the largest town in the Borgarbyggð municipality with a population of about 3750 residents. It is a main junction in Iceland and the gateway to the Snaefellsnes National Park. Iceland's capital Reykjavik is 69 kilometers from the center of Borgarnes. The second largest bridge in Iceland, the Borgarfjarðarbrú, connects traffic to and from Reykjavik.

Deildartunguhver

Deildartunguhver is a hot spring in Reykholtsdalur, Iceland. It is characterized by a very high flow rate for a hot spring and water emerges at 97 °C. It is the highest-flow hot spring in Europe. Some of the water is used for heating, being piped 34 kilometers to Borgarnes and 64 kilometers to Akranes.

Djupalonssandur Beach

Djupalonssandur is a sandy beach and bay on foot of Snæfellsjökull in Iceland. It was once home to sixty fishing boats and one of the most prolific fishing villages on the Snæfellsnes peninsula but today the bay is uninhabited.

Hraunfossar

Hraunfossar is a series of waterfalls formed by rivulets streaming over a distance of about 900 metres out of the Hallmundarhraun, a lava field which flowed from an eruption of one of the volcanoes lying under the glacier Langjökull. The waterfalls pour into Hvítá, from ledges of less porous rock in the lava.

Kirkjufellsfoss Waterfall

Kirkjufellsfoss is a modest, low lying waterfall that drops 54 feet in two broad steps as its stream makes its final plunge to a lagoon along the shore of the ocean, with the famous mountain Kirkjufell looming above.

Mount Kirkjufell

Kirkjufell is a 463 m high mountain on the north coast of Iceland's Snæfellsnes peninsula, near the town of Grundarfjörður. It is claimed to be the most photographed mountain in the country.

Reykholt

Reykholt is a village in the valley of the river Reykjadalsá, called Reykholtsdalur. It is part of Borgarfjörður, Western Region. Reykholt was at one time one of the intellectual centers of the island and had for many years one of the most important schools of the country.

Reykjavik

Reykjavik, on the coast of Iceland, is the country's capital and largest city. It's home to the National and Saga museums, tracing Iceland’s Viking history. The striking concrete Hallgrimskirkja church and rotating Perlan glass dome offer sweeping views of the sea and nearby hills. Exemplifying the island’s volcanic activity is the geothermal Blue Lagoon spa, near the village of Grindavik.

Snæfellsnes National Park

Snæfellsjökull National Park was established on June 28th, 2001.The Park's purpose is to protect and conserve the area's unique landscape, indigenous plants and animal life as well as the important historical relics. At the same time, the Park is meant to allow visitors easier access as well as an improved opportunities to get to know the area.

Snæfellsnes Peninsula

The Snæfellsnes Peninsula is a region in western Iceland known for its dramatic landscapes. At its western tip, Snæfellsjökull National Park is dominated by Snæfellsjökull Volcano, which is topped by a glacier. Nearby, a trail leads through lava fields to black-pebble Djúpalónssandur Beach. In Stykkishólmur fishing village, the 19th-century wood-frame Norwegian House is a regional museum with a craft shop.

Vatnshellir Cave

The cave itself is an 8000 year old lava tube created by volcanic eruption from a nearby crater in the Purkhólar crater family. As the lava rushed down the hill in a lava river it began to cool on the surface, creating a crust on top of the lava river. As the eruption stopped, all the lava from underneath this crust continued to drain out. That eventually left behind empty tube with roof on top that gradually cooled down.

Ytri Tunga Beach

Ytri Tunga is a beach by a farm of the same name on the Snæfellsnes Peninsula. Unlike many of the beaches in Iceland, Ytri Tunga has golden sand, rather than black.

Itinerary

1 Day - Snaefellsnes

You will be picked up from your hotel in Reykjavik.

Start you tour from the small town Borgarnes and start driving alond peninsula towards beautiful waterfall and mountain Kirkjufell.

Make a stop for lunch in the fishing village of Olafsvik.

After lunch visit the National Park of Snaefellsnes and explore Cave Vatnshellir with the professional equipment.

Then you will be able to see the beautiful black sand beaches of Djupalonssandur and Dritvik and make a stop for 30 minutes to enjoy the view.

The last to see for the day will be a sculpture of Bardur Snaefellsas at the beach of Arnarstapi. Your guide will tell you the story about this wonder.

At the end of the day you will go to your hotel in West Iceland.

2 Day - West Iceland

After the breakfast get ready to make a stop at the place called Ytri-Tunga beach which is famouse for its seal colony.

The day will be fulled with places: mineral spring of Raudamelsolkelda, Hraunfossar Falls which consists of the number of falls and next we will find Barnafoss waterfall.

The last stops will be Reykholt, a little village in the valley of Reykholtsdalur and Deildartunguhver, the hot spring.

After these wonderful days you will be dropped off at Reykjavik at the convenient point for you.

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